The Relationship between Usage Rate of Information and Communication Technology and Demographic Features of Faculty Members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Soleymani, Shila; Mosavi, Seyyed Yaghub; Parirokh, Mehri

The Relationship between Usage Rate of Information and Communication Technology and Demographic Features of Faculty Members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Authors

Shila Soleymani

Seyyed Yaghub Mosavi

Mehri Parirokh

Abstract

The present paper investigates the relationship between
usage rate of information and communication technology and
demographic features of faculty members of Ferdowsi
Mashhad (FUM). Questionnaire and interview were used as data
collection tools. 274 faculty members of Ferdowsi University of
Mashhad were selected as our research population. Findings show that
regarding the relationship between gender of fac
and usage rate of information and communication technology, average
use of ICT, Internet and Internet services it was found that the usage
rate of ICT with respect to educational performances was higher
among women than men and usage ra
than women. There is a negative (inverse) relationship between the age
of faculty members. On average, regarding the usage rate of ICT, there
is a significant difference between passed courses (preliminary,
intermedium, advanced, experimental) in ICT. Also there is no
significant difference at different scientific levels (instructor, educator,
assistant professor, associate professor and full professor) and values
obtained for different service records of faculty members of FUM.
Home and workplace were referred more as the places for use of ICT
and slow rate of connection to the network were mentioned as the
most important problems in the usage.

Keywords

Information and communication technology

faculty members

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad