Computer attitudes of non-computing academics: a study of technical colleges in Brunei Darussalam

Current information systems (IS) literature has paid considerable attention to measuring the computer attitudes of students and schoolteachers. Comput er attitudes of non-computing academics working particularly in technical c olleges have, however, received scant attention. Moreover, studies on compu ter attitudes among Asian academics are least reported. Keeping this in vie w, this study was undertaken by validating an instrument to measure compute r attitudes of non-computing academics working among technical colleges in Brunei Darussalam. This study also identified factors that contributed to t he formation of computer attitudes of academics. This was achieved by under taking a survey of 192 non-computing academics from four technical colleges . Attributes related to demographics and education of academics appeared to have little impact on computer attitudes. In contrast, ownership of a pers onal computer (PC) and level of computer skill were found to be important. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.