Abstract

ICT has brought many challenges and opportunities and influenced the world like no other invention in the recent past. The field of education has also got greatly influenced by ICTs, which certainly altered whole education process. Hence, Teacher educators are required to have adequate knowledge and use of ICT in educational process in case they wish to utilize current techniques and technologies effectively for prospective teachers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge and levels of ICT functioning among teacher-educators in teaching training colleges. A three-point Likert scale constructed by the researcher was used in the present study. A random sampling technique was employed in the selection of the sample of as many as 60 teacher-educators working in teacher-training colleges in the State of Punjab, India. Normative survey method was used in the present investigation. The results showed that no significant difference was found regarding knowledge and levels of ICT usage among teacher-educators in the teacher training colleges. The finding of the study revealed that knowledge of ICT significantly formed to develop an attitude of teacher-educators towards the usage of ICT tools in educational process. It was found that strong relationship of ICT training in making teaching-learning process effective and there was significant role of knowledge of ICT, levels of ICT tools’ usage, attitude towards ICT and training of ICT on improving the ICT skill in teaching-learning process by teacher-educators.