Due to the opportunities and conveniences it provides to human life, the use of new technologies is becoming more and more common in daily life, becoming indispensable. With the spread of technology, the increase in the number of people using technology has made it possible to produce new information that creates added value, thanks to the ability to easily access information all over the world to combine and analyze big data. The development of technology and the circulation of knowledge have become important elements of economic and social change. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of attitudes and behaviors towards new technologies on the performance for 450 academicians working in four research universities in Istanbul, for academics who are expected to have high compliance with innovative approaches. As a result of the structural equation model, a positive 38.4% increasing relationship was determined between the attitudes and behaviors towards new technologies and performance.
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With the rapid development of science and technology, technological developments manifest in almost every aspect of life in society (Bharadwaj et al., 2013). The ability of people to convey to each other any developments in life enabled societies to take quicker action and become more productive. This situation highlights the connection between education and technology. Today, one of the factors used to measure the development level of a country is its achievements in science and technology (Tondeur et al.,2017a). One of the most important elements in ensuring this development is education.
Education, which provides the transfer of knowledge to the society, has also played an important role in terms of transferring the ever-developing technology to societies, the use of developing technology in education and new teaching techniques and methods to be used in the developing process (Voogt et al., 2013). Today, the concepts of education and technology have become concepts that make sense when taken together, rather than when they are handled separately. For this reason, a separate concept coined “educational technology” has emerged, which is a concept that expresses the development and improvement of education and the increase in the quality of education (Scherer et al., 2018). From this point of view, it can be stated today that without educational technology, it will not be possible to increase the quality and efficiency of education.
The contribution of technology use is important for raising qualified students and for efficient education. In universities it is difficult for students to fully grasp theoretical lessons. However, using technological teaching instruments increases the quality of education (Majid, 2014). Academicians, who play an important role in raising qualified and qualified individuals, also have an important role in the effective and productive education process. In this process, effective and efficient use of educational technologies is a rather important issue (King and He, 2006).
Academicians, who are guides and examples to students in higher education, need to use educational technologies effectively and efficiently, and exercise self-efficacy. For students to benefit from educational technologies adequately, to see themselves as competent and to reach the aims aimed in education, academicians must have self-efficacy in terms of technology (Gebre et al., 2014). The teaching staff has an important duty, and it is important for the students, the society and our country that this staff is qualified to meet today's needs. The aim of the study is to determine the effects of attitudes and behaviors towards new technologies on performance for 450 academicians working at four research universities in Istanbul.