A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE, ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION PATTERN OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES BY THE FACULTY OF STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES IN KARNATAKA
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2019-12-23
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present study was conducted during 2018-2019 at four State Agricultural
Universities and population of the study were teachers, researchers and extension
personnel working in UAS Bengaluru, UAS Dharwad, UAS Raichur, UAHS Shimoga.
Proportionate random sampling method was employed to select 180 samples. Ex-postfacto
research design was followed. Data was collected through personal interview
method. The results showed that SAU faculty belonged to medium knowledge category,
moderately accessible to ICTs and medium ICT utilization category. A larger number of
the faculty belonged to middle age group, majority had Ph.D. degree and were male,
moderate number of publications category, moderate time spent category, etc., The
variables such as age, education, number of publications, service experience, rural-urban
background, academic performance, attitude, awareness, etc, had significant relationship
with knowledge, accessibility and utilization pattern of ICTs. Further, twenty personal
characteristics of faculty contributed to the tune of 80.40, 89.60 and 85.40 per cent to the
knowledge, accessibility and utilization pattern of ICTs, respectively. Extent of
satisfaction in accessing and usage of ICTs by faculties showed that highest of overall
faculty (38.89%) belonged to moderately satisfied category. Important source of
awareness of ICTs for the faculty was Incidental sources like browsing, television adds
etc., Further, Comparative analysis of ICT knowledge, ICT accessibility and Utilization
pattern of ICTs by the faculty was found non-significant at 5.00 per cent level of
significance. Lack of ICT facility at nearest point was felt as a problem and periodical
training programmes on application of ICTs emerged as important suggestion.