Essay About Internet In Education

BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE INTRODUCTION OF INTERNET IN THE EDUCATION DOMAIN

INTRODUCTION

Internet is a network of the interlinked computer networking worldwide which is accessible to the general public. These computers transmit data through a special type of packet switching which is known as the IP or the Internet Protocol.These networks make the internet to be used for various important functions which include online chat and even the sharing of the documents and web sites on the WWW or the World Wide Web. For educational purposes the internet is used by students to gather information so as to do the research or add knowledge of any sort of subject they have, therefore it is the largest encyclopedia for any student who uses

Libraries nowadays have free space unlike before because now students can access the information wherever they are if there is internet, they also enjoy using the internet during researches and projects because it provides the fastest, cheapest and easiest ways of providing information. Going through the information on the internet is easy than reading the whole book and it saves time. This information can be taken from books, magazines, journal publications and newspapers from latest editions with fresh information. With internet students can learn on-line whereby they learn from any place where they can access the material online or from the internet. This gives the students to do the work at their own pace or their own timetable; this also helps students to save travel expenses and other costs. Homeschooling is increasing in many countries across the world due to internet because of accessibility of educational videos of teachers giving lectures which shows explaining diagrams and concepts more like you are in a real life classroom which makes it good for most of the African schools because most of them have shortage of