Social Work Educators' Use of Information Technology in Social Work Education

International Society for Technology, Education, and Science. ISTES Organization, Monument, CO 80132. e-mail: istesorganization@gmail.com; e-mail: ijonsesoffice@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.ijonses.net/index.php/ijonses

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Social Work; Technology Uses in Education; Educational Technology; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; 21st Century Skills; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences

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One of the areas where technology is used extensively, especially information and communication technologies, is education. Social work education is gradually changing from traditional practices to technology based. In this study, the use of information technology by social work educators teaching at universities in Türkiye is discussed. The participant of the study consists of 414 social work educators teaching in Türkiye. Data within the sample were collected via Google Forms. "Personal Information Form", "21st Century Skills Teaching Scale" and "Attitude Scale Towards the Use of Technology in Education" were used in the research. The obtained data were analyzed via SPSS 29 for Windows software. According to the results, the majority of the participants find information technologies necessary in social work education and use these technologies at a moderate level or quite a lot. When the relationships between the scales are examined, it is seen that there is a statistically significant, negative relationship between the participants' Attitude Scale towards the Use of Technology in Education scores and the 21st Century Skills Teaching Scale scores. It is recommended that future researches examine social work educators' relationships with information technologies at a longitudinal level.

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2026

EJ1494253