Information Communication Technologies (ICT) has experienced remarkable development and changes provoked by the spread of digitization and the rise of electronic technologies. Those changes raised the significance of understanding academics' perceptions and professional usage of those technologies in higher education. To understand the academics' perception of digital technologies in higher education, we have conducted this study in Al-Hussein Bin Talal University (AHU) as an example of academics' digital competencies, professional attitudes, and professional application of digital tools, in addition to exploring the possibility of predicting the degree of applying digital tools through examining the degree of academics' competencies and professional attitudes. This study as carried out in Ma'an, a poor-environment area of Southern Governorate in Jordan, with 107 academics who work in AHU as instructors, aimed to explore how they perceive new digital technologies. The most important result of the study showed that academics' competences, attitudes, and their usage of digital technologies tools are in average level. Moreover the study showed that the degree of using digital technology tools can be predicted through the degrees of the academics' competences and attitudes. Recommendations were included in this study.