Barriers and Interventions to the Use of Educational Technology in Teaching

Abstract

The present study was conducted in two state agricultural universities i.e., one from north and one from south part of India. The universities were selected purposively based on the utilization of ET for creating better teaching approaches among teachers. Teachers of these two universities were randomly selected as a respondent from various departments.30 respondents from one university and 30 from other, thus the sample size of the study being 60. Data was collected through interview schedule and collected data were subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. The study indicated that the majority of the respondents faced barriers viz., lack of management of available budget in order to address financial barriers, heavy work load with teaching under administrative barriers, lack of training in use of hardware and software under technology barriers, lack of motivation to use of ET and Lack of interest in using ET tools under psychological barriers, lack of advance teaching aids under physical and material barriers respectively. The interventions provided by the majority of the respondents were funds may be available in time, allotment of nonacademic work would be reduced, provide training on advanced educational technologies, training on knowledge and skill development regarding ET and improvement of lab facilities for teaching. Generally, this paper provides information and recommendation to those responsible for the use of new technology tools into Teaching.