Change in Attitude as a Factor Affecting ICT Competence of Teachers Bisht Kamini1, Sharma Gyanendra2, Kulshrestha Manoj3 1Education Division, ICAR, New Delhi-110 012 2Department of Agricultural CommunicationCollege of Agriculture, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, U. S. Nagar-261 345 (UK) 3ABES Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad-201 009 (UP) Abstract Globalization and technological change processes that have accelerated in tandem over the past fifteen years have created a new global economy “powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge”. The emergence of this new global economy has serious implications for the nature and purpose of educational institutions. Information systems are necessary in today's fast global economy. Yet, the human factor is important in the implementation of any information system and attitude is an important factor predicting human behavior. Many psychologists have theorized attitude as a significant personal attribute that tends to predict behaviour. Furthermore, we must expect the teachers attitudes towards using ICT can be influenced by the information they have about the value of ICT, their previous experiences in using ICT, their expertise in using ICT and the expectations that it will contribute to their pupils learning. It is widely agreed by attitude theorists that the concept of attitude can be broken into cognitive, affective and behavioural components. This study aims to find out the relationship of attitude with ICT competence. Top Keywords Attitude, competence, factor, ICT. Top |