A comparison of barriers and enhance factors on the adoption and use of ICT into teaching and learning for teachers

Author

Kumar Basak, Sujit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Durban Univ. of Technol., Durban, South Africa

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

244

Lastpage

247

Abstract

In the twenty first century education plays a very important role to develop a nation. There are many barriers and enhance factors that effect on the adoption and use of ICT for teachers. The aim of this paper is the comparison of barriers and enhance factors on the adoption and use of ICT into teaching and learning. This aim is achieved by identifying the factors that affect teachers´ barriers and enhance into teaching and learning. The main results of this study were concluded by comparing the barriers and enhancing factors for teachers from the existing literature and it clearly shows that barriers factors are more than enhance factors. Furthermore, there are no correlation between barriers and enhance factors. The findings would help to know for school teachers barriers and enhance factors of the adoption and use of ICT.

Keywords

educational institutions; social aspects of automation; teacher training; teaching; ICT adoption; ICT use; information and communication technology; learning; school teacher barriers factors; teacher enhance factors; teaching; twenty first century education; Availability; Computers; Educational institutions; Filtering theory; Resistance; Training; barriers; comparison; enhances; school; teachers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Society (i-Society), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/i-Society.2014.7009052

Filename

7009052