Internet as a Learning Tool

worldwide Journal of calculation and disdain Research ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 multitude 2 telephone number 2 whitethorn 2011 INTERNET AS LEARNING TOOL INDIAN ENGINEERING educateeS PERCEPTION Vandana Sharma 1, Rishu Chhabra2 1 2 Education &038 Research, Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore, Karnataka, India Department of computing machine Science &038 Engineering, Chitkara University, Punjab, India, ABSTRACT Our global economy now relies on nous and innovation rather than manual labor and raw material as a generator of wealth and good education has become the c alto postulateher part in shaping the success of the countries.Over the death decade, t h e I T revolution has brought in advancement t don shows change magnitudely visible effects on the education with the birth of online education. First school-age child community realized the effect of the cyberspace on their education. Invention of net has removed all in all the barriers to tuition. The scope of this paper is to analyze the north Indian engineer students perception near net profit as eruditeness beast effects of net profit on them in place of their relations, education, entertainment and and lovingization.Technology dissolve have both authoritative and banish consequences on quite a little in different walks of life at different times. instanter necessity is to understand the true push of it so that everybody gathers benefits that yield a healthy mind. In this paper, with the economic aid of an empirical have it was inspected that whether the fits via e- mail, online chatting and availability of entropy through meshwork would lead our students in a better learn and connected individual. Study also examines the kind of learning mode students elect.These issues ar disc all all overed in detail and suit satisfactory solutions atomic number 18 proposed to counter the negative effects of lucre on students. Keyword cyberspace, education, learning tool INTRODUCTIO N Internet is a tool for the improvement of learning. A text give which was a traditional learning tool are now out of date as meshwork moves quickly and provides updated information and includes a wide variety of International Journal of Computing and none Research ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 the great unwashed 2 Issue 2 May 2011 international sources. Now learning has a great reliance on information acquired from the internet rather than from textbooks.Dependence on this tool has increased exponentially and unbelievably. complaisant, geographical, economical barriers are disappearing as students interact worldwide. The technological revolution has a faster and deeper impact on to a greater extent and more lives. This has further increased with the improvement of technology. Venkatesh 1 flocked in his paper that all technologies create an impact of s o m e k i n d . For example, the goggle box technology has had an influence on the media habits of the public, their attitudes a nd behavior towards entertainment and the interaction between family members.Cole 2 assessed the requisite of Internet as a mainstream medium t h a t m a y s o o n b e a s prevalent a s television although pace of its diffusion seems much faster. Kraut e t al 3 conducted a longitudinal battleground on the effects of Internet on genial involvement and psychological well-being. Their decisions show that the greater employment of the Internet was signifi shadowtly related with decreased community within the family, a decrease in local complaisant network and loneliness and depression. In a circulate of SIQSS, 4 N.Nie has also continued with the negative consequences of the Internet that are similar with the outcomes of the Kraut separate. Katz and Aspden 5 make a perspective utilise 2500 respondents, 8 percent of them were Internet exploiters. comparing expendrs with non- mappingrs, they establish no evidence t h a t t h e u s e o f i nternet reduces peoples membership in social and religious organizations. Among users, more use of the Internet was related with additional contact with family members and an increased involvement in online communities. This survey contradicts the discoveries presented in 4 and 5.Wellman 6 made a survey on the National Geographic Society website and came out wi t h t h e s u g g es t i o ns t hat t h e I n t er n e t can be used for increasing interpersonal connectivity and organizational involvement. Not only can expose people to more inf ormation and more contacts, it can reduce commitment to community. However, this increased connectivity and involvement. In 2009 there were nearly 81,000,000 users of internet in India. on that point are some(prenominal) studies available at global level about the impact of internet on students but studies about Indian engineering students are non available.INTERNET IN EDUCATION There are number of main advantages of employ internet for education 7 A . Flexibility and Variety The flexibility of the internet is possibly the greatest advantage for online education. Websites, synergetic activities, lecture notes, videoconferencing, webinars, chartrooms, and blogs, online education students and their educators can interact in ways that are already known to them. Internet provides user friendly interface International Journal of Computing and Business Research ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 Volume 2 Issue 2 May 2011 to user and new users also feel more comfortable with time B. tranquility and petty(a) Cost of Access Internet has defeated the distance barrier for learning. Students ask not to move to gain knowledge. It has become easy and affordable for everyone from a rural area student to a working professional. For the purpose of interactive courses and videoconferencing rural students are facing problem and this still requires attention C. Ease and Low Cost of Setting information Online Email, chat and interactive online clash has become new way of learning. Inf ormation regarding a course is all available online. This is not only accessible but is affordable for institutes also.Records are available for 24X7 for any time use. D. Ease of Updating Information Online Information updation is easier than revising a textbook. Results can be displayed just after an exam. A new course is easy to add. New research or finding can become part of syllabus instantly. In 8 Aytekin ISMAN, Fahme DABAJ studied students-teachers perceptions and attitudes towards internet based on various parameters. It was concluded that at education motorbike of students concentrate more to learn internet alternatives and functions for getting great positive benefit their future life by adapting contemporary trends.In 9 Hong etal studied . Students attitudes toward the use of the Internet for it is important that students should b e exposed learning at a university in Malaysia and showed that to this web based learning so that they could get benefit from Web-based courses and Web-assisted conducted in their field of specialization by the various departments. mapping OF THE STUDY The purpose of this research was to collect information about the impact of internet on learning of engineering students. This subject field is directed to resolvent following questions What is the attitude of students towards utilise internet for their course contents?Do the students prefer using internet over books? Does internet builds sanction in students by helping them in presentations etc.? METHODOLOGY The research actor in this study was a questionnaire. There were total of 20 questions in this questionnaire each with five selections of response from Strongly Agree to Strongly resist. Questions were divided into four categories. In first category questions were framed to tax students attitude toward International Journal of Computing and Business Research ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 Volume 2 Issue 2 May 2011 he use of internet for their course purpose. judge question for this category is With the help of internet I am able to collect more study material . Second category asks students about their preference of internet over books. Sample question for this statement is For study purpose I prefer spending time on internet surfing rather session in a library . Third category measures the students attitude for internet as a tool of confidence builder. Sample question is Internet has bring uped my confidence as I am able to present my reports, seminars etc. n better way. In the last category miscellaneous questions were asked to get student opinion about group learning through internet using blogs and reciprocation forums, their time fatigued on internet etc. As all students were engineering students, questions were not asked to measure their basic knowledge and skills of the internet. Population under investigation include 100 students of Computer Science &038 Engineering of a Wifi enabled engineering institute campus. All students us e Laptop and Internet on free-and-easy basis. RESULT AND DISCUSSION A.Students attitude towards using internet for their syllabi There were four questions under this category. For each statement responses were coded 2 for Strongly take issue to 5 for Strongly agree and 1 for No opinion. thereof the heaps for each student on the statement ranges from 8 to 20. get ahead from 8-10, 12-16 and 17-20 were classified as having negative ,neutral and Positive attitude towards the use of internet for learning. Table 1 shows the result. Table1. Students attitude towards using internet for learning. loads 8-10 12-16 17-20 strength Negative Neutral Positive relative frequency 2 58 40B. Students preference of internet for study material over the books For each statement responses were coded for 2 Strongly resist to 5 for Strongly agree and 1 for No opinion. thereof the scores for each student on the statement range from 10 to 21. Scores from 10-14, 1517 and 18-21 were classified as do n ot prefer using internet ,no preference and prefer use of internet over books. Table 2 shows the result of students preference of internet over books International Journal of Computing and Business Research ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 Volume 2 Issue 2 May 2011Table2. Students preference of internet over books Scores 10-14 15-17 18-21 pick outence Frequency Do not 15 Prefer No 48 preference 37 Prefer C. Students attitude towards internet as a confidence builder For each statement responses were coded 2 for Strongly disagree to 5 for Strongly agree and 1 for no opinion. Thus the scores for each student on the statement range from 2 to 10. Scores from 2-4, 5-7 and 810 were classified as having Negative ,Neutral and Positive attitudes towards the use of internet for learning.Table 3 shows the attitude of students toward internet as confidence builder. Table3. Students attitude towards internet as a confidence builder. Scores 2-4 5-7 8-10 Attitude Negative Neutral Positive Frequency 11 31 58 Despite of the fact that the students in this survey were from computer science &038 engineering stream half of the students find it difficult to understand all the foothold on WebPages. 90% students spend 1-5 hours on internet. 66% students use blogs and discussion forum for the solution to their technical problems.Only 8% students disagree that internet can be helpful in group learning. 79% students consider that salmagundi of online course and classroom course will be better for learning process. 84% students feel that internet helpful to prepare them for examination. 71% students do not find internet adding to laziness. 51 % students believe that the use of internet has decreased the verbal communications among themselves. Internet has positive impact on learning domain but has negative impact on social aspects of a students personality.Though students realize this they should indulge more in social interactions and activities. Institutes should hold seminars time to time t o make students aware about the importance of internet as learning tool. Institutes should encourage group learning through internet and should promote the use of blogs for learning purpose. Courses should be knowing in blended format of classroom and online teaching. As result of this survey showed that more Indian students are opting online books as compare to paper book so use of online bookInternational Journal of Computing and Business Research ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 Volume 2 Issue 2 May 2011 reading devices should be promoted. The use of such devices is user friendly. CONCLUSION In this paper result of the survey of use of internet as learning tool by engineering student has been presented. Engineering students are using computer and internet on daily basis. Maximum students find internet a very efficacious tool for their studies. Students prefer online books and study material. They find internet helpful to boost their confidence for presentations and reports.Engineering institutes should promote the use of internet as a learning tool and should provide infrastructure to facilitate the students. Students also feel that intemperance use of internet may cause some socialization problems. REFERENCES 1 A. Venkatesh, A c onceptualization of Household/Technology Interactions, Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 12, 189-194, 1985. 2 J. I. Cole, The Impact of the Internet on Our Social,Political and Economic Life, The UCCLA Center for communication Policy, 2000. 3 R. Kraut, M. Patterosn, V. undmark, S. Keisler, T.Mukophadhyay and W. Scherlis, Internet Paradox being? , a Social Technology that Reduces Social Involvement and PsychologicalWell53(9),1998a. 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