Attitudes of Students at Higher Education Institutions towards ICT in Education

The present paper discusses three surveys conducted at University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2012 and 2013. It focuses on selected questions from these surveys mapping students' attitude towards learning with the aid of information and communication technologies. The first survey explored in detail the attitudes towards e-learning of 152 students of Introduction to Text Information Processing, an on-line course at the Faculty of Education. The second survey involved 1136 students of technical disciplines at University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. It was conducted after they completed courses taught with the aid of interactive multimedia textbooks (e-books). In the third survey, an extensive questionnaire on students' possession of new technology devices, their competences in using ICT in education and on the actual study activities supported by new technologies was used to explore their general position on the use of ICT in education.