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| Language: | en |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1104080 |
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- ICT Use: Educational Technology and Library and Information Science Students' Perspectives--An Exploratory Study Aharony, Noa Shonfeld, Miri Educational Technology Technology Uses in Education Internet Personality Traits Theories Student Motivation Foreign Countries College Students Library Science Information Science Questionnaires Student Attitudes Innovation Statistical Analysis Correlation Multivariate Analysis Likert Scales This study seeks to explore what factors influence students' ICT use and web technology competence. The objectives of this study are the following: (a) To what extent do certain elements of Rogers' (2003) Diffusion of Innovations Theory (DOI) explain students' ICT use, (b) To what extent do personality characteristics derived from the Big Five approach explain students' ICT use, and (c) To what extent does motivation explain students' ICT use. The research was conducted in Israel during the second semester of the academic year 2013-14, and included two groups of participants: a group of Educational Technology students (ET) and a group of Library and Information Science students (LIS). Findings add another dimension to the importance of Rogers' DOI theory in the fields of Educational Technology and Library and Information Science. Further, findings confirm that personality characteristics as well as motivation affect ICT use. If instructors would like to enhance students' ICT use, they should be aware of individual differences between students, and they should present to students the advantages and usefulness of ICT, thus increasing their motivation to use ICT, in the hopes that they will become innovators or early adopters. Appended are: (1) ICT Questionnaire; (2) Attitude Questionnaire; (3) The Big Five Questionnaire; and (4) Motivation Questionnaire.