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Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education

Students in institutions of higher learning should take advantage of information available on the Internet in their coursework. The Internet is also utilised for social and other non-academic functions. Hence, it is desirable, for students to strike a balance in the time spent online for academic a...

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Main Authors: Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi, Wan Hamid, Wan Hamzari, Nawawi, Mokhtar
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Language:English
Published: Sakarya University, Sakarya 2014
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spelling my.upm.eprints.359392018-04-09T09:14:49Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35939/ Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Wan Hamid, Wan Hamzari Nawawi, Mokhtar Students in institutions of higher learning should take advantage of information available on the Internet in their coursework. The Internet is also utilised for social and other non-academic functions. Hence, it is desirable, for students to strike a balance in the time spent online for academic and non-academic purposes. In this study, the durations spent on the Internet for academic and non-academic purposes were investigated based on a survey on 1675 students randomly selected from five different fields of study, viz. social sciences, sciences, engineering, agriculture and computer sciences. On average, the participants accessed the Internet 4.48 hours per day. There were also significant differences in the time spent using the Internet among students in different fields of study, with computer science students spending more time online (5.61 hours per day) than the others. In terms of Internet use for academic purposes, students in social sciences, agriculture and computer sciences scored the highest. In an analysis involving all the students in this study, the total time on the Internet was found to be weakly correlated with the time spent online specifically for academic purposes. For social science students, a low but significant positive correlation existed between the overall time spent online and the time spent on the Internet for academic research. In a similar analysis carried out for science students, a negative low correlation was observed. In the fields of agriculture, engineering and computer sciences, however, no correlation was found between Internet access duration and the use of the Internet for academic purposes. The very low correlations encountered above, even though statistically significant, showed that students who spent more time on the Internet did not make much greater use of it for academic purposes as compared with students who used the Internet less. Sakarya University, Sakarya 2014-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35939/1/Use%20of%20internet%20for%20academic%20purposes%20among%20students%20in%20Malaysian%20institutions%20of%20higher%20education.pdf Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi and Wan Hamid, Wan Hamzari and Nawawi, Mokhtar (2014) Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 13 (1). pp. 232-241. ISSN 2146-7242 http://www.tojet.net/
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description Students in institutions of higher learning should take advantage of information available on the Internet in their coursework. The Internet is also utilised for social and other non-academic functions. Hence, it is desirable, for students to strike a balance in the time spent online for academic and non-academic purposes. In this study, the durations spent on the Internet for academic and non-academic purposes were investigated based on a survey on 1675 students randomly selected from five different fields of study, viz. social sciences, sciences, engineering, agriculture and computer sciences. On average, the participants accessed the Internet 4.48 hours per day. There were also significant differences in the time spent using the Internet among students in different fields of study, with computer science students spending more time online (5.61 hours per day) than the others. In terms of Internet use for academic purposes, students in social sciences, agriculture and computer sciences scored the highest. In an analysis involving all the students in this study, the total time on the Internet was found to be weakly correlated with the time spent online specifically for academic purposes. For social science students, a low but significant positive correlation existed between the overall time spent online and the time spent on the Internet for academic research. In a similar analysis carried out for science students, a negative low correlation was observed. In the fields of agriculture, engineering and computer sciences, however, no correlation was found between Internet access duration and the use of the Internet for academic purposes. The very low correlations encountered above, even though statistically significant, showed that students who spent more time on the Internet did not make much greater use of it for academic purposes as compared with students who used the Internet less.
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author Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Wan Hamid, Wan Hamzari
Nawawi, Mokhtar
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Wan Hamid, Wan Hamzari
Nawawi, Mokhtar
Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education
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Wan Hamid, Wan Hamzari
Nawawi, Mokhtar
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title Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education
title_short Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education
title_full Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education
title_fullStr Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education
title_full_unstemmed Use of internet for academic purposes among students in Malaysian institutions of higher education
title_sort use of internet for academic purposes among students in malaysian institutions of higher education
publisher Sakarya University, Sakarya
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35939/1/Use%20of%20internet%20for%20academic%20purposes%20among%20students%20in%20Malaysian%20institutions%20of%20higher%20education.pdf
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