The Relationship between Usage Rate of Information and Communication Technology and Demographic Features of Faculty Members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

The present paper investigates the relationship between usage rate of information and communication technology and demographic features of faculty members of Ferdowsi Mashhad (FUM). Questionnaire and interview were used as data collection tools. 274 faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were selected as our research population. Findings show that regarding the relationship between gender of fac and usage rate of information and communication technology, average use of ICT, Internet and Internet services it was found that the usage rate of ICT with respect to educational performances was higher among women than men and usage ra than women. There is a negative (inverse) relationship between the age of faculty members. On average, regarding the usage rate of ICT, there is a significant difference between passed courses (preliminary, intermedium, advanced, experimental) in ICT. Also there is no significant difference at different scientific levels (instructor, educator, assistant professor, associate professor and full professor) and values obtained for different service records of faculty members of FUM. Home and workplace were referred more as the places for use of ICT and slow rate of connection to the network were mentioned as the most important problems in the usage.