Narges Mirani Sargezi, Hamed Esmaeili, Ahmad Mirgol, Samira Samimi Moghaddam, Fahimeh Darvish ‎Sargezi, Saeed Shahraki Komak

Abstract

Introduction: Higher education in medical sciences is very important in any society. ‎Universities have faced many changes in this regard. Higher education in any country ‎can be leading when using new technologies. Given high emphasis of the universities ‎on the cognitive empowerment of the employees, the objective of this study was to ‎investigate the relationship between the use of information and communication ‎technology and cognitive empowerment and the efficiency of educator' teaching ‎performance in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.‎ Methodology: The research method was descriptive-survey method. The research ‎population included all the teachers of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in the ‎academic year of 2018-2019 and the sample of the research was determined to be 120 ‎people using randomized sampling method and Morgan table as well as Cochran ‎formula. The measurement tool was a questionnaire derived from Edmund model. Data ‎were analyzed using SPSS, version 25, software. Results: In this research, demographic status of the samples including age, level of ‎education, employment history and gender was examined. Based on the descriptive ‎statistics, providing training and feedback had the highest mean among other variables. ‎The results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test showed that all the hypotheses were ‎normal and the results of the data analysis confirmed all four existing hypotheses. The ‎results showed that the application of technology in this sample resulted in cognitive ‎empowerment and improvement in the performance of the professors of the medical ‎sciences of Zahedan‎.