An Exploratory Analysis of Organizational Characteristics of Japanese Universities in the Use of Information Technology

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  • 日本の大学におけるIT化の類型
  • ニホン ノ ダイガク ニ オケル ITカ ノ ルイケイ

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An exploratory analysis was conducted to examine the current situation of information technology in Japanese universities and to reveal the most important aspects of facilitating the use of information technology. This study was conducted in 2001 through a questionnaire survey of all universities in Japan. As a result of a factor analysis, we found 4 factors and named as follows; 1) the utilization of the Internet in the classroom, 2) the support system for the use of information technology, 3) teacher training for the use of information technology and 4) the preparation of computers for the staff and students. And then, the Japanese universities were classified in three types based on a cluster analysis of each factor scores: (1) Active use type, which provides a sufficient amount of computers and uses the Internet in the classroom actively, (2) Training Type, which provides many teacher training courses, (3) Inactive Type, which does not use the Internet in the classroom and does not provide many teacher training courses. It was found that these types have some relation to the type of establishment of the universities such as national, private and public, and is also related to the positive attitude of the non-academic administrative officials of their universities.

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