An Empirical Study on Adoption of ICT Tools by Students in Higher Educational Institutions

Abstract

In the recent years, technology has been an important component in teaching and learning. Recent times have witnessed a lot of up shift in various sectors because of the pandemic COVID-19 during which working in many of them has either undergone shutdown or has come to a slowdown. Even higher educational institutions faced the same problem of mapping to digital transformation from offline to online education model. To combat this slowdown, ICT has played a vital role in providing us a number of solutions over internet through IOT enabled devices, cloud platforms and applications. This paper aims to study adoption of ICT Tools by students in Higher Education Institutions of Delhi NCR. A primary survey had been done where the research framework has been made on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to determine the predictors of ICT adoption by students. An empirical analysis was then done to understand various facets of ICT usage by students in higher education institutes. The findings show that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use has a positive significant relationship on the attitude and behavioral intention of the students of higher educational institutions to use ICT tools and its adoption by the students is a must in the current scenario where online tools, virtual education and LMS are in high demand.