Role of Internet in Education of Commerce Students

Background Introduction of globally adopted modern technologies in the field of education provides an opportunity for modernization teaching methods, E-Learning and the facility to gain knowledge in each language, better understanding of the meaning of words through online dictionaries and easy download of the educational and literary things. Materials and Methods The proposed research work attempts to study the role of internet in education of college students. The study was undertaken in St. Peters College Kolenchery. The respondents of the study were commerce students. The data were suitably classified and analyzed based on the objective of the study. Analysis was done via statistical software 16.0. Statistical tools like percentages, rank test and Friedman repeated measures analysis of variance on ranks have been applied for analyzing the data. Results Google was the most preferred browser of the students and Mozilla Firefox was the next preferred browser for them. The most used search engine by the students was All the Weband Alta Vista was ranked second and the least rank was given to Info Mine. Internet was mainly used for completing assignments and to check exam timetables. Conclusion Google was the most preferred browser of the students. The most used search engine by the students was All the Web. Most of them used internet for completing assignments and to check exam timetables and results.