Investigation of the Development Obstacles of the Informational Literacy of Faculty Members in Region 1 Universities, Iran
Eisa Amiri , Seyed Ahmad Hashemi and Abolfazl Abbasi
Department of Education, Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Educational Management, Shiraz University, Iran
A.Abolfazl1369@yahoo.com
Abstract
The present research investigates the development of obstacles to the informational literacy of faculty member in Islamic Azad Universities, and presents the proposed methods to improve this skill. The present research appraises the technological, economic, cultural, structural and human obstacles in university environments. The present research is survey-descriptive and Statistical population consists of 2131 faculty members of region1 Islamic Azad Universities in 2011-2012. The sample consists of 325 professors based on Morgan’ s table. We selected them using cluster random sampling, so we selected several universities and appraised their professors. The data collected by a questionnaire that is made by researcher based on liker’s spectrum. This questionnaire was used after the determination of its validity by specialists and its stability was conformed using Cronbach Alpha coefficient (Alpha: 0.941). The analysis of data carried out using descriptive statistics methods (frequency, the percent of frequency, mean and standard deviation) and SPSS software. The results of research show that economic and technological obstacles are the most important obstacles of the informational literacy of faculty members.
Keywords: informational literacy, faculty member, region1 Islamic Azad Universities, information and communication technology
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