TEACHING STAFF' ATTITUDE TOWARD ICT: IS GENDER A FACTOR?

TEACHING STAFF' ATTITUDE TOWARD ICT: IS GENDER A FACTOR?

Current research seeks to understand weather gender is a factor that should be considered when considering teaching staff' attitude toward Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Survey methodology is facilitated through the use of the questionnaires. The survey domain is a random sampling of teaching staff in Egyptian higher education institutions (HEI). The population for this study was 500 full-time Faculty staff, only 412 returned and complete questionnaires are considered as the study sample. The results showed that no difference between being a male or a female as regard to the attitude toward ICT among teaching staff in Egyptians HEI; thus, gender is not a significant factor when considering attitude toward ICT by teaching staff membersin Egyptians HEI. The result of this research has significant implications to HEI when they plan, develop, and adopt ICT; thus, HEI has to consider that teaching staff' attitude toward ICT is not related to their gender.