Harnessing Digital Revolution for Technical Academic Performance: Context to Rurban Segment

Conference: Recent Trends in Information Processing, Computing, Electrical and Electronics
Author(s): Smita Pallavi, K. Lal, S. P. Lal Year: 2017
Grenze ID: 02.IPCEE.2017.1.105 Page: 256-262

Abstract

Information sharing through technology has always democratized education, recently enabling more students\nfrom various strata to access the same resources and tools hence bringing a revolutionary transformation worldwide. It\nempowers students to enhance and broaden their academic acumen, latest research area exploration and assignments to be\nsubmitted during their academic pursuits. The research investigates pedagogical impacts of low-tariff internet availability\nfor technical undergraduate students enrolled in engineering field in urban vicinity and rural segments of Bihar. It\nassesses the role of online tutorials, wikis, blogs, tweets, feeds, videos on YouTube as educational nodes, their reach to\nRural areas and their roles in enhancing the academic performance of the students. The study also considers the\nprocrastination attitude towards studies as risk associated with Internet overuse. It evaluates whether anytime-anywhere\nInternet availability increases or decrements students\' performance in urban areas and percentage uninterrupted\naccessibility of internet in engineering colleges of rural areas.\nThe methodology adopted was a cross sectional study conducted on Engineering pursuing students for three sessions\n2011-14; 2013-2016 and 2015-2018 primarily to mark the exponential decrease in tariff upon the capacity of internet\nconsumption in India. The online Questionnaire instrument was circulated to Alumni Connect platform for passed out\nstudents and ERP mode for current students of city based institution and face-to-face mode in rural organization. The\nCGPA of sampled students were recorded from Examination Department tabulations.\nDependency on internet for academic accolades were evaluated and tested for correlation with reference to gender, economic\ncapacity, usage, course coverage for sampled 2200 students ( State-Aided, Private and State Govt. Engg. Colleges).The\nstatistical results portrayed that 71% of the respondents were hostel residents and accessed internet for multiple purposes.\nAround 79.2% were identified as using internet for classroom teaching supplements and 68.3% used for document downloads\nlike quizzes, assignments. Internet Access of 6 -8 hours were observed to have higher CGPA with p = 0.011 probability value\nindicating that students with high internet usage with consistent speed improve upon their academic performance with higher\ngrades.

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