Challenges in Integrating Technology into Education
Oguzhan Atabek

TL;DR
This study investigates perceived obstacles to technology integration in Turkish education, highlighting training, content support, incentives, and infrastructure as key barriers, with no significant influence from demographic factors.
Contribution
It identifies specific perceived obstacles to technology integration in education and examines their associations with personal and professional differences among experts.
Findings
Training and content support are major obstacles.
Infrastructure inadequacy hinders technology use.
No significant demographic influence on perceived obstacles.
Abstract
Despite significant amount of investment, there seems to be obstacles to technology integration in education. In order to shed light on the nature of perceived obstacles to technology integration, opinions of 117 professionals, who were selected by Turkish Ministry of National Education as experts in their respective fields, about the obstacles to integration of technology into education were investigated. After categorizing the perceived obstacles by factor analysis, associations of those categories with personal and professional differences were further investigated for better contextualizing the findings. Correlations were analyzed by Pearson's product moment coefficient and point-biserial coefficient. The results revealed that it's not the hardware itself that constitute obstacles to technology integration. Insufficiency of in-service and pre-service training, content support, and…
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