UNDERSTANDING OF BARRIERS OF ICT IN EDUCATION AND ITS EFFECTIVE USE

Information Communication Technologies are the power that has changed many
aspects of lives. The impact of the ICT on each sector of the life across the past twothree
decades has been enormous. The education is a socially oriented activity.
Using ICTs in education it moved to more student-centered learning. The aim of the
study is to identify the effectiveness of using ICTs to promote teaching and learning
and to study the obstacles faced during the use of ICT in education. The major
barriers were lack of confidence, lack of competence, lack of access to resources and
shortage of time. Since confidence, competence and accessibility have been found to
be the critical components of technology integration in schools, ICT resources
including software and hardware, effective professional development, sufficient
time, and technical support need to be provided to teachers. No one component in
itself is sufficient to provide good teaching. However, the presence of all
components increases the possibility of excellent integration of ICT in learning and
teaching opportunities. Generally, this paper provides information and
recommendation to those responsible for the integration of new technologies into
education and suggests stimulating factors such as motivation and attractiveness to
design ICT based teaching learning.