National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies these technologies comprises computer, telephone, internet, television, radio etc. In 21st century, use of ICTs becomes more prominent in all the sectors which include organizations, academics and education etc. ICTs have introduced new methods of teaching and conducting research. The integration of ICTs into educational classroom teaching has attained a new upsurge nowadays. It has the potential to boost information distribution, learning, teaching and educational services and makes them affordable and accessible anytime, anywhere. The present study on “Awareness, access and knowledge of teachers and students about information and communication technologies (ICTs)” was conducted in CCS HAU Hisar with a sample size of 100 teachers and 150 students. The data was collected on awareness, access and knowledge about selected ICT tools with the help of the questionnaire. Finding of the study showed that cent percent of the teachers and students were having awareness about Internet/ Web services, MS PowerPoint. Friends and relatives played major source of awareness (71.60%) about ICT tools for most of the respondents. All the teachers (100.00%) were having accessibility of official computer in the department, internet access in the university and internet access in the faculty/department followed by personal computer (desktop/laptop) (98.00%) and CD-ROM access in the university library (87.00%).Majority of the teachers (94.00%) and students (88.67) were having high knowledge of ICT tools. Hence, ICT is an important source of information for teachers and students. Access to different forms of information and communication technologies had increased the ability of teachers and students to carry out more informed research.
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