Abstract

• The main purpose of the study is to examine the level of technology anxiety of teacher educators of Education Degree Colleges within the academic year 2022-2023. The specific objectives are to find out technology anxiety of teacher educators in terms of the level of educational qualification, teaching service and time to study online teaching-learning resources daily. Quantitative survey research method was used in this study. The samples are 236 teacher educators (20% of population) from Education Degree Colleges (EDCs) by using stratified random sampling method. The instrument used in this study was the questionnaire. The descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis (independent samples t test and ANOVA) were employed to analyze the data. According to the results, the majority of the teacher educators falls under the high technology anxiety level. There was no significant difference of technology anxiety in educational qualification. There were significant differences in technology anxiety with regard to teaching service and time to study online teaching-learning resources daily. A key contribution of the current study is to enlighten the teacher educators about the hardware, software and technical issues to realize the effectiveness of the educational technology and feel assertive using it. Moreover, this study is invaluable as it allows teacher educators to see the weaknesses and needs to minimize their technology anxiety.