Perception of Academic Staff and the Adoption of ICT in Teaching Process at the College of Education and External Studies, Makerere University

This study focused on the College of Education and External Studies at Makerere University and investigated how educators perceived the use of ICT in the classroom. The study aimed to investigate the correlation between four key factors: lecturers' intention to incorporate ICT into their teaching, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and attitude towards using ICT innovations. A questionnaire survey was used to gather data from 96 lecturers in the population; 77 respondents made up the sample, and 63 responded to the survey. The data was analyzed both descriptively and inferentially.
The findings showed that, in addition to the lecturers' generally satisfactory intention to adopt ICT (average mean=3.05, Std=0.983), other intentions were also satisfactory and positively significant during the teaching process. These findings support the notion that attitudes toward ICT adoption, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use are important factors in the teaching process. Makerere University should reenergize its ICT adoption policies and practices, according to the study's recommendations. The study further suggests that in order to facilitate the adoption of an ICT innovation for teaching, other higher education institutions should make investments to improve the perceived utility and ease of use of the innovation by their lecturers.