USE OF INTERNET IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A STUDY AT SYLHET AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

M Kamruzzaman, M A Islam, M R Amin and A Akter
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-50

Abstract:

The objectives of the study were to determine and describe the extent of internet use by the students of Sylhet Agricultural University (from herein SAU) regarding academic and entertainment and communication purposes. The study was carried out with four faculties (Veterinary and Animal Science, Agriculture, Fisheries and Agricultural Economics and Business Studies) at SAU. A sample of 240 students (20%), sixty from each faculty, was randomly selected from a total population of 1200 students. Data were collected from the sampled students throughout January to March 2013 using distributed questionnaire. Findings of the study showed that most of the students like to use laptop regardless to faculty and gender. Students of Agricultural Economics and Business Studies were the highest (100%) user of internet whether Veterinary and Animal Science faculty was the highest (25%) non-user of internet. Students from Fisheries faculty were the highest user of internet for academic purpose and higher user of internet for entertainment and communication purpose are from Agriculture and Agricultural Economics and Business Studies faculties’ students. Female students are more interested in academic use of internet than male. Regardless to faculty and gender; collecting contents from different websites for home assignment and examination and browsing different websites to develop detailed concept of any topics for home assignment are top ranked for academic purpose of internet use. In the case of entertainment and communication purposes, reading newspaper was ranked top position followed by use of Facebook and getting live score of different games for every faculties and each gender.

Keywords:

Internet, higher education, communication process


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M Kamruzzaman, M A Islam, M R Amin and A Akter. 2014. USE OF INTERNET IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A STUDY AT SYLHET AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 1(1): 45-50.