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Abstract
Technology, in the last few decades, has shown a significant impact on almost all aspects of
Higher Education globally. Technology has brought many new opportunities and many new
ways of improving access to quality of Higher Education. Various surveys at National and
international level have already shown the increase use of Technology in classrooms like
usage of Power Point Templates (PPTs), projectors and LED screens, smart classrooms, use
of course web pages, online assignments, computer simulations and so on. No doubt the
technology has the potential to revolutionize the old method of teaching and teaching
pedagogy. Technology has certainly removed barriers in the way of access to higher
education. Nowadays it is not difficult for any person living in one country to access quality
education which is being provided by some professor in some other country. Even time is no
more a barrier as lectures delivered are being stored on web/cloud. Yet, for various reasons,
adoption of Technology is still uneven from country to country, from institute to institute, and
from generation to generation. Empirically, Generation X people have been termed as slow
learners of technology. Going by this theme, an effort has been made to examine the
comparative usage of technology by Generation X and Generation X teachers in imparting
higher education. For the purpose of this primary survey, faculty teaching in colleges located
in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali cities, popularly known as tricity was taken as
population. Further, a sample of 200 faculty members from these colleges was selected. A
scaled questionnaire was used as survey instrument to collect data. Results were obtained
using various univariate and bivariate statistical tools. The results have clearly shown that
usage of technology by Generation X teachers is significantly lower as compared to
Generation X teachers. Generation X teachers were found to be reluctant to integrate
technology in their teaching pedagogy. Also, many teachers from Generation X felt that
usage of technology cannot serve much and traditional methods of teaching were still
relevant and effective.