Particularities of computer and internet use in educational process at university students: implications for social development
Particularities of computer and internet use in educational process at university students: implications for social development
Author(s): Oana Elena RădăcinăSubject(s): Communication studies, Higher Education , Social development, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: students; social development; educational process; communication; online environment; computer; young people; school preparation;
Summary/Abstract: Along with the identification of the positive effects, associated with the introduction of interactive media in the vast majority of human activities, the role of computer started to vary. Using the computer (interactive media) within the educational process, has had a positive effect. The purpose of this study is to show how the computer/the internet change, optimize or inhibit the educational process and analyze some aspects of those implications for social development of students. Utilising the online interview method, used on a sample of 53 students, - college participants, aged 18-26, followed by a qualitative research, - derived from the emergent theory - the present essay aims to analyse, through a methodological approach, with a qualitative intercession, the implications of internet and computer use on the main aspects of the social development of the young people.
Journal: Educatia 21
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 62-72
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English