Factors Influencing Attitudes towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Amongst Undergraduates: An Empirical Study Conducted in Kuwait Higher Education Institutions (KHEIs)

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Author
Meerza, Alyya H.
Beauchamp, Gary
Date
2017-04-01Acceptance date
2017-03-01
Type
Article
Publisher
TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
ISSN
2146-7242
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The increasing use of information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education has largely been
explored in relation to undergraduates’ attitudes to ICT usage at university. However, the success of ICT in any
learning institution, including higher education institutions (HEIs), depends on the attitudes of undergraduates to
using ICT in their daily learning. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the critical factors impacting on ICT
use amongst undergraduates in their learning at Kuwait universities. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
was appliedto achieve this study aim.
A sample of 717 undergraduates was subsequently selected from both a government (state-funded) and private
university in Kuwait. The critical factors examined here include the type of university (government or private),
the language (medium) of the learning and ICT support. Mixed methods, namely quantitative and qualitative
methods, were implemented for the corresponding data collection.
The quantitative results suggested that ‘usefulness’ and ‘ease of use’ of ICT are key dimensions of
undergraduates’ attitudes to its utilisation in learning. Another result showed that the factors examined had a
direct impact on undergraduates’ attitudes. Moreover, the qualitative results suggested that the
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TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
Citation
Meerza, A. and BEAUCHAMP, G. (2017) ‘Factors Influencing Attitudes towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Amongst Undergraduates: An Empirical Study Conducted in Kuwait Higher Education Institutions (KHEIs)’, The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, April 2017, 16(2), pp.35-42
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This article was published in TOJET: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology on 1 April 2017 (online), available open access at http://www.tojet.net/articles/v16i2/1624.pdf
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Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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