Limitations of the study

This study is limited by the fact that it is like a needs analysis for the current situation in Kurdistan regarding using ICTs for teaching and learning. It is also limited to those factors which were mentioned and discussed previously in the study. There might be other factors but probably because of the nature of this study, it might be better for a future research. Additionally, the number of the participants limits the study. If there were bigger numbers of the student and teacher participants, it could provide more generalized data about the situation in Kurdistan.

Another limitation of this study is that, those elderly teachers who are above 40 years old could not participate because of not having interest in using ICTs or replying the electronic surveys. For doing so, it should be a paper survey which could not be done since the author and the study is accomplished in the United States.

In addition to that, the responses from the surveys are at a time where there are various crises, such as political, economic crises in the country which might impacted the results of the participants to be disagreed with the situation.

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