농촌지도사의 컴퓨터 사용에 관한 조사연구

A Study the Computer Use of Rural Change Agents

The objectives of this study were to review the present situations of computer use, computer education and training, and attitude to computer of agricultural extension agents. The research subjects were 279 agricultural extension agents in 15 City and Gun Rural Extension Offices Which were sampled by random sampling method among 182 City and Gun Rural Extension Offices. The major findings of the study were as follows; 1. Only 28% of the agricultural extension agents had personal computer in their home. 2. Agricultural extension agents mainly used word processor program, but hardly used data base, spreadsheet, and computer language. 3. About 40% of the respondents had not chance to be participated in computer education/training program yet. 4. Generally, rural change agents agreed that computer is very valuable for their job and that they should learn high computer technology. 5. Concludly, various contents of computer education/training program should be prepared for rural change agents and they should take full advantage of computer facilities.