Abstract

The widespread use of technology in everyday life, and especially in higher education, has attracted increasing attention to the nature of ICT use by higher education teachers, which is seen as an increasingly important factor for the successful integration of these technologies. This study aims to analyze the determinants of the different uses of ICT by teachers in the university environment and to characterize their variety and intensity. To this end, we conducted a survey of a sample of 2,079 teachers from public universities in France. Our approach was to measure the intensity of ICT use in academia in order to assess the resulting digital divide between different groups of teachers. Multinomial logistic regression shows that differences in ICT use are related to differences in teachers’ initial digital skills. Furthermore, ICT training, age, gender, and social context appear to have multiple effects on ICT use. Our results clearly confirm the existence of digital divides, prompting us to analyze more closely the role of innovative users and that of first-time adopters, when they appear to be actors involved in the diffusion of ICT within universities.

Keywords Higher education, ICT, technology Integration, digital competences, digital divide.
Authors Mounir Dahmani
Publication Date August 2021
Journal Name South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics (ISSN: 2581-821X)
Volume 12
Issue 3
Pages 10–28
Publisher Science Domain International
DOI 10.9734/sajsse/2021/v12i330305
APA Reference Dahmani, M. (2021). Determinants of the Digital Divide among French Higher Education Teachers. South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics, 12(3), 10–28. https://doi.org/10.9734/sajsse/2021/v12i330305
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