Technostress: A Set of Negative Psychological Reactions to the Use of Technology in Teaching Profession
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Technostress is stress resulting from the use of technology. Education and organizational systems are being reinvented, and information and communication technology (ICT) is changing the way things are taught and learnt. ICT certainly brings unmatched advantages to the field of Education, nonetheless, this incorporation of ICT into the teaching-learning process has resulted in a certain degree of stress among college teachers, commonly termed "technostress”. Teachers are under great pressure to work effectively and to continually update their knowledge and skill sets. In this context, our study aimed to perform an analysis of technostress among college teachers. The data was collected through a sami-structured questionnaire from college teachers. The major findings of this study revealed that a relatively high percentage of college teachers didn’t feel comfortable using different technological gadgets in the teaching-learning process. Majority of them confused and frustrated while delivering content using various technological tools in classroom setting. Moreover, the they feel that there was a lack of preparation time with technological gadgets before using them in the actual classroom settings.
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