Integration of digital resources in research work by Indian Higher Education teachers: PLS-SEM analysis

The present study attempted to investigate the integration of digital resources in research work by Indian higher education teachers. The success of the digital resources in research can be affected by several factors, such as digital skills, digital flow, anxiety in the use of ICT, digital ethics, quality of digital resources and the behavioral intention to integrate ICT and the relationship between the factors. An online survey originally constructed by Guillén-Gámez et al. (2023) was used to collect data, and the final sample used for this study was 347 teachers of Universities in Punjab, India. Data analysis and hypotheses testing were done using partial least squares structural equations modeling (PLS-SEM). All the hypotheses are supported except hypothesis 10 implying that the quality of technological resources did not influence integration. The total of the factors corresponded to 65.6% of the variance in the integration of ICT in the research process. The results confirm that the model proposed by Guillén-Gámez et al. (2023) in the Spanish context, is effective in the Indian higher Education context in explaining the technological integration of teachers to use ICT in research work. The findings of this study open the possibilities for researchers in India to find out the reasons for the above results by conducting qualitative or mixed-method research in the context of the use of ICT in the Indian higher education landscape.