چكيده لاتين :
The purpose of this study was to do a survey on the status of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Islamic Azad University and the extent to which they benefited from ICT facilities in its branches. The population of the research consisted of all ICT managers in all 12 zones of IAU. All the ICT managers acted as samples. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire (with 28 close-ended items and two separate open-ended sets of items) was used. To measure the psychometric features of the questionnaire, its content validity was confirmed referring to a group of experts1 opinions. Cronbach a was applied to measure the internal consistency among the items (a=0.873). The result of a single group t-Test showed that there was a significant difference between sample mean and the theoretical mean in 23 items, except in using internet to link with other parts of the organization, using ICT to refer to the administrative procedures and correspondence, using ICT in evaluating the staff, infrastructural capacity to benefit from digital library, and the level of internet bandwidth to use digital library. Considering these differences between the mean score and the mean score of the samples and the theoretical mean it can be concluded that the status of all 12
zones of IAU was less than average in most aspects except the variables of" using on-line courses for professional improvement of the staffʹ, "budgeting for employing ICT experts", "ICT training to staffʹʹ, "using digital library". It was higher than average regarding the last four variables.
