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Utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) tools by staff and students in universities

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Title Utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) tools by staff and students in universities
 
Creator Smaranika.Parida
 
Contributor Uma.S.Hiremath
 
Subject Extension and Communication Management
 
Description A study on “Utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) tools by
staff and students in Universities” was undertaken in the year 2009-2010 with a sample size
of 184 staff (92) and students (92) of Karnatak University and University of Agricultural
Sciences in Dharwad district of Karnataka. The data was collected on awareness, knowledge,
extent of utilization, problems faced and suggestions about selected ICT tools with the help
of pre-structured interview schedule.
Majority of students were having more awareness (98.91%) than that of staff
(92.39%). Friends and relatives played major source of awareness (52.71%) about ICT tools
for most of the respondents. Most of the respondents were having awareness regarding
Internet (93.47%) followed by MS Word (92.39%) and MS Excel (89.13%). Staff were
leading with knowledge level (50.00%) whereas students were leading with utilization level
(40.21%) of ICT tools. Maximum number of respondents paid money on usage of Internet
(66.84%). Internet and MS power point were highly used for gaining knowledge (67.39%)
and making presentation (64.67%) respectively. Staff and students preferred Internet more
due to clarity and need based.
Both staff and students were facing the general problems like read only content,
articles giving only abstracts, lack of proper training, low or poor connection of Internet and
difficulties to download full article. During usage of ICT tools, staff were facing the specific
problems like less conversation with parents, eye pain, back ache and head ache whereas,
students faced less meeting of friends and siblings, head ache and eye pain regularly.
Respondents suggested for proper Internet connection for each PC followed by training.
There was association between type of family, size of family, occupation of parents/ husband
/ wife and accessibility to computer with the knowledge and utilization level of respondents
of ICT tools.
 
Date 2016-11-09T18:03:30Z
2016-11-09T18:03:30Z
2010
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/84759
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher UAS, Dharwad