Importance of Internet in Higher Education

ACADEMIC AND
EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................3
TASK 1...............................................................................................................................3
Importances of internet on higher education..................................................................3
Explaining importance of internet in higher education of student with an example.......4
Recommendation of better use of internet in higher education of 21st century............5
TASK 2...............................................................................................................................7
Development of skills.....................................................................................................7
Developing skills.............................................................................................................8
Personal development plan............................................................................................9
CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Higher education qualifies as qualifications which are undergraduate level or above that,
usually takes the students three years to complete such education. Introduction of internet in
field of academics has been very important for the students as it has provided them necessary
equipments related to technology, communication and entertaining online activities, which are
used further by them for learning and researching content taught. With example this project will
provide importances of internet in higher education. This project also provides necessary
recommendation for improving the use of internet on higher education in 21st century.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Importances of internet on higher education
Internet over the years have been key towards modernizing many activities. The use of
internet have shown some significant importances on higher educations (Ali, 2020). These
importances benefit both the students and educators in higher education in their respective
ways. Some of these importances are,
Communication :
One of the biggest most important feature which internet has brought is the ability for
quick communications between lot of people. In higher education it has been very effective as
well. The services of emailing has enabled teachers and students to stay in contact with each
other with having to meet one another physically which is very important in the recent times.
Emailing services also allows them to send assignments, projects, syllabus and teaching
facilities can also use it to make announcements (Xing and Marwala, 2017). With the help of
internet a lot of paper waste produced by the teachers and students is reduced. The online
communication facility provided by internet enables those students which have missed there
classes to receive online notes and other important information. With the help of internet
students forming a team can communicate with each other when ever they want.
Research :
In the recent times the term research has been directly linked with internet. This is due
the extreme amount of knowledge and data which is present over the internet. This is why
internet is a very powerful tool which assists the teachers and students for researching about
their study topics. The usual method of researching was going to the library and searching for
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the books and the topic inside of it, now with help of internet the same information can be
searched on the internet in a couple of seconds. Many institutions of higher educations have
offered the facility of online library system for allowing the students to find information on the
computers through those websites. Researching on internet provides the student and teacher
with wide variety of information on a single topic providing them a type of knowledge which they
would not get normally.
E-learning :
E-learning is very important benefit of internet in higher education. In E-learning the
learning material is present entirely on the internet or the computer. This means all the E-
learning based course are available which may include assignments, quizzes and online tests.
With the help of E-learning teachers and students can avoid the need of face to face
conversation. Student who has flexible schedules can heavily benefit from E-learning as it
allows them to study at times which is convenient for them. With the help of E-learning students
can peruse multiple courses in the similar time period. This save the time of students and also
teacher which uses this facility to teach more students at a time (Carmichael, Reid and
Karpicke, 2018).
Admission :
With the help of internet the process related to admissions in colleges and universities
have improved a lot. Application forms can be downloaded online decreasing the unnecessary
effort of both institutions and student. Just like that all the step for admissions can now be done
with the help of internet including payments. One of the major benefit for the students is that at
the time of admissions internet provides multi options of college to the student which can be
used by the student efficiently for choosing the desired college or university
(Broadbandsearch.net, 2021).
Explaining importance of internet in higher education of student with an example
Internet in higher education has been very important for the students as it has provided
them necessary equipments related to technology, communication and entertaining online
activities, which are used further by them for learning and researching content taught. As
discussed above the importances of internet is on both teachers and student. Specially for
students it plays an important role as even in this time of pandemic their studies are not getting
ruined because of the help of internet. Starting from the aid internet provides during the
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