Abstract:
Information technology refers to personal electronic devices such as laptops, handheld computers,
smart phones and the institution computers and associate devices. Researchers, business Leaders,
professional educators as well as academic Organizations have made rigorous initiatives and efforts to
strengthen IT Integration in education. This paper describes and analyzes trends in the information
technologies and the impact of ICTon the educational sector as a whole, and higher educational sector
in particular. The study was conducted in the University of Colombo, Faculty of arts in department of
sociology. A questionnaire was distributed among 100 students who were attending the different
courses between different areas, data collected was processed and analyzed through SPSS. Results
indicated that only 61.5% students use an electronic device for course activity whereas 65.8% used it
for blogging and 14.49% of the students were using electronic device for computer games, music and
video, and many other entertainment purpose. Interestingly 72% of students are often doing online
shopping and 88.6% students use it to often read, send e-mail and the instant messages for the issues
arising and increasing from IT in educational system. Although many issues arise from using ICT tools
the study focused on the impact of ICT, its usefulness, efficiency and efficacy in higher education
system.
