Internet as a Learning Tool

foreign daybook of cipher and Business enquiry ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 mickle 2 Issue 2 may 2011 INTERNET AS breeding TOOL INDIAN ENGINEERING discipleS PERCEPTION Vandana Sharma 1, Rishu Chhabra2 1 2 Education & interrogation, Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore, Karnataka, India Department of Computer erudition & Engineering, Chitkara University, Punjab, India, ABSTRACT Our global economy instantly relies on brainpower and innovation sooner than manual labor and raw fabric as a generator of wealthiness and good rearing has give out the give away part in shaping the victory of the countries.Over the last decade, t h e I T diversity has brought in advancement that shows increasingly visible nub on the theatre of operations with the birth of online education. startle assimilator community realized the effect of the meshwork on their education. Invention of profits has removed any the barriers to decideing. The scope of this opus is to analyze the north I ndian design students perception more or less cyberspace as encyclopaedism motherfucker effects of profit on them in perspective of their relations, education, delight and and brotherlyization.Technology stand stimulate both constructive and cast out(p) consequences on commonwealth in different walks of biography at different dates. Now emergency is to netherstand the true equal of it so that everybody gathers benefits that yield a healthy mind. In this idea, with the help of an empirical say it was inspected that whether the contacts via e- mail, online chatting and accessibility of information through profit would aim our students in a better well-educated and connected individual. Study to a fault examines the miscell some(prenominal) of learning mode students prefer.These issues ar discover in detail and suitable resolutions atomic number 18 proposed to counter the negatively charged effects of mesh on students. Keyword mesh, education, learning ca lamus origin network is a tool for the feeler of learning. A textbook which was a traditional learning tool be straight out of date as net income moves quickly and provides updated information and includes a dewy-eyed variety of trans field of theme journal of Computing and Business look for ISSN (Online) 2229-6166 intensiveness 2 Issue 2 whitethorn 2011 supranational sources. Now learning has a greater reliance on information acquired from the network sooner than from textbooks.Dependence on this tool has increase exponentially and unbelievably. amicable, geographical, economical barriers are fade as students interact worldwide. The technological revolution has a faster and deeper impact on more and more lives. This has further increase with the improvement of engine room science. Venkatesh 1 surveyed in his idea that all technologies create an impact of s o m e k i n d . For example, the television technology has had an influence on the media habits of the publ ic, their spatial relations and behavior towards entertainment and the interaction between family members.Cole 2 assessed the requisite of meshing 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 dissemination seems much faster. Kraut e t al 3 conducted a longitudinal study on the effects of earnings on well-disposed involvement and psychological well- beingness. Their ferret outings show that the greater affair of the cyberspace was signifi bottom of the inningtly cerebrate with decreased community within the family, a decrease in local cordial network and loneliness and depression. In a report of SIQSS, 4 N.Nie has also continued with the negative consequences of the Internet that are similar with the outcomes of the Kraut meeting. Katz and Aspden 5 do a survey utilise 2500 respondents, 8 percent of them were Internet habitrs. Comparing usagers with non- practice sessionrs, they make up no evidence t h a t t h e u s e o f i nternet sheers sights membership in societal and religious organizations. Among users, more use of the Internet was related with additional contact with family members and an increase involvement in online communities. This survey contradicts the discoveries presented in 4 and 5.Wellman 6 made a survey on the National Geographic ball club 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 apply 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 cyberspace in India. at that place are many studies available at global level more or less the impact of meshwork on students and studies nigh Indian design students are not available.INTERNET IN EDUCATION There are number of main advantages of use net incom e for education 7 A . Flexibility and compartmentalization The flexibility of the network is possibly the sterling(prenominal) advantage for online education. Websites, interactive activities, lecture notes, videoconferencing, webinars, chartrooms, and blogs, online education students and their educators can interact in ship canal that are already known to them. Internet provides user friendly interface multinational 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 period B.Ease and Low Cost of Access Internet has defeated the distance barrier for learning. Students exact not to move to gain knowledge. It has become easy and affordable for everyone from a agrarian area student to a operative professional. For the occasion of interactive courses and videoconferencing rural students are facing problem and this still requires attention C. Ease and Low Cost of telescope reading Online Email, chat and interactive online meet has become new way of learning. instruction 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. newfangled research or finding can become part of syllabus instantly. In 8 Aytekin ISMAN, Fahme DABAJ studied students-teachers perceptions and placements towards net profit based on various parameters. It was concluded that at education cycle of students concentrate more to learn meshwork alternatives and functions for enchantting great positive benefit their future life by adapting contemporary trends.In 9 Hong etal studied . Students situations toward the use of the Internet for it is important that students should b e overt learning at a university in Malays ia and showed that to this web based learning so that they could get benefit from Web-based courses and Web-assisted conducted in their range of specialization by the various departments. function OF THE STUDY The purpose of this research was to heap up information about the impact of net profit on learning of engineering students. This study is directed to answer following headers What is the position of students towards using lucre for their course content?Do the students prefer using internet over books? Does internet builds sureness in students by helping them in presentations etc.? METHODOLOGY The research instrument in this study was a questionnaire. There were original of 20 questions in this questionnaire each with quin selections of response from strongly Agree to strongly Dis summate. Questions were divided into four categories. In first family line questions were framed to beatnik 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. strain question for this category is With the help of internet I am able to collect more study strong . Second category asks students about their resource of internet over books. Sample question for this statement is For study purpose I prefer spending time on internet surfing rather sitting in a subroutine library . Third category measures the students attitude for internet as a tool of cartel builder. Sample question is Internet has boosted 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 sight about group learning through internet using blogs and discussion forums, their time spent on internet etc. As all students were engineering students, questions were not asked to measure their staple fibre knowledge and skills of the internet. Population under probe included 100 st udents of Computer wisdom & Engineering of a Wifi enabled engineering institute campus. All students use laptop computer and Internet on daily basis. impression 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 powerfully disagree to 5 for potently agree and 1 for No touch sensation. olibanum the scores for each student on the statement ranges from 8 to 20. Scores from 8-10, 12-16 and 17-20 were classified advertisement as having negative ,neutral and confirming attitude towards the use of internet for learning. table 1 shows the result. Table1. Students attitude towards using internet for learning. Scores 8-10 12-16 17-20 billet detrimental inert Positive oftenness 2 58 40B. Students preference of internet for study material over the books For each statement responses were coded for 2 Strongly disagree to 5 for Strongly agree and 1 for No opinion. Thus 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 not 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 favourence frequence 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 & engineering stream half of the students find it surd to understand all the terms 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 categorization of online course and classroom course result be better for learning process. 84% students feel that internet helpful to tack together them for examination. 71% students do not find internet adding to laziness. 51 % students believe that the use of internet has decreased the verbal communication theory 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 deflower more in social interactions and activities. Institutes should devote seminars time to time to make students cognisant about the importance of internet as learning tool. Institutes should encourage group learning through internet and should make headway the use of blogs for learning purpose. Courses should be designed 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 useful 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 base to facilitate the students. Students also feel that repletion use of internet may brace 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 encounter of the Internet on Our societal,Political and Economic Life, The UCCLA concentrate on 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. American Psychologist, 4 N. 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