International Journal of Managment, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 12

Impact of social networking services on education: A case of Indian overseas students1

  • Author:
  • Maidul Islam, Mincheol Kang
  • Total Page Count: 20
  • Page Number: 291 to 310

*Graduate School of Business, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

**Division of e-Business, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

1“This research was supported by the KCC (Korea Communications Commission), Korea, under the CPRC(Communications Policy Research Center) support program supervised by the KCA(Korea Communications Agency)” (KCA-2012-09-941-00-002).

Abstract

In this research paper we tried to examine how highly educated. Indian overseas students interact with Social Networking Services (SNS) and does SNS has direct impact on Education.A 19 items questionnaire was made to collect data from two different perspectives (Social and Educational) of using SNS. Samples were collected carefully from different parts of world namely South Korea, United States, United Kingdom and Taiwan by email and face to face interview. The result shows that students use SNS not only to keep in touch with their friends and families but also they use SNS to gather and disperse valuable education related information, namely, scholarship information, finding better universities and other opportunities from their friends and community members.

Keywords

Social Networking Services, SNS, Education, Indian Students