Library Progress (International)

  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue: 2

Information and communication technology (ICT) awareness amongst university and college teachers of north eastern region of India: A Survey

  • Author:
  • Manoj Kumar Sinha
  • Total Page Count: 18
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 217 to 234

Reader and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, (Swami Vivekananda School of Library Science) Assam University (A Central University), Silchar-788011. E-mail: dr_mk_sinha@yahoo.com, mksinha1965@gmail.com, mksinha_2007@rediffmail.com, dlsau2009@gmail.com

Online published on 27 February, 2013.

Abstract

The present study was undertaken with a view to know the extent of ICT amongst the participants of Refresher Course on Humanities conducted by Assam University Silchar and other teachers of Assam University, Silchar from various departments who have not participated in the course. The participants are mainly drawn from the colleges and universities of North Eastern Region of India where the penetration of ICT is very slow and teachers are not very much comfortable using computers. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted by the investigator, which comprises of administration of questionnaire, observation of the participants, and interview of some of the participants for knowing the opinion of the respondents in respect of awareness of ICT for their day-today activities for their academic and research activities.

The self designed questionnaire comprising of 23questions has been distributed amongst the randomly selected samples. The samples comprises of faculty members of colleges and universities of N E Region who have participated in this course. The filled up questionnaires have been collected from the respondents for the data analysis and interpretations. On the basis of filled up questionnaire the data has been analysed and tabulated using SPSS Software. For data analysis percentage technique, has been pilot study. The paper highlights the important survey findings in respect of ICT Awareness and ICT Infrastructure, Training etc. Besides this, some suggestions and recommendations have also been enumerated in brief.

Keywords

Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Refresher Course in Humanities, Assam University, North Eastern Region