Discuss the effect of the internet on higher education

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The Internet has a big influence over life in the society. Higher Education has a lot of web usage. Indeed, the Internet could make the link between the multitude of information and the people who are using it. Each Internet user has to be careful about everything he reads or uses, because this huge source of information is the most dangerous one. Two types of websites exist on the web: the official ones and the others. When an user finds something interesting and valuable he must check it. One of the biggest mistakes while using the Internet is to pick up some information and trust in it as if it was absolute truth. All those risks is the reason why a lot of using ways of the internet should be learnt from the beginning of the interactive course of Higher Education. The use of Internet is one of the aims of the Higher Educational System. Because it is not only a huge entertainment and information source, it is also a great connection platform which can link anyone in any place at any time.

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[...] The Internet using or not using it is not even discussed in nowadays courses. Even the farthest University topic is related by one way or another to the web. In UWIC Colchester Avenue campus, the Internet holds a great part in student life and in their works. Each student can fill the gap between the school and themselves when they are not on the campus via their own space available through the Internet. It is called the “blackboard”, “library” or even the e-mails. [...]

[...] Referencing Charles, Juwah (2006, Interactions in oline education, Routledge, London, New York) B. Doner & J. Kahn & A. Phipps & M. Vorell (2000). The Effects of the Internet on Higher Education [online]. [...]

[...] Discuss the effect of the internet on higher education The Internet has a big influence on each life in our society. The Higher Education has a lot of web user. Indeed the Internet tool it could make the link between the multitude of information and the people who using it. Each Internet user has to be critical on everything he reads or uses, because this huge source of information is the most dangerous one. Two types of websites exist on the web: the official ones and the others. [...]

[...] What's more 84% of them could not get their degree without an Internet access. In this survey, Doner, Kahn, Phipps and Vorell also showed a real issue: of the students thought that a degree from online courses worth less than a traditional one. Those numbers drew a bad shape of online courses. This is a real issue for the Internet today. Indeed the multiple sources of information, data, contact is so big that every user has to do some selection in it. [...]

[...] Not even concerning the referencing or even the research but also the downloads of software. The perfect control of the Internet for educational goals is impossible, so it has to be limited, controlled and focused on what student or learners are aimed to do, in the scholarship shape. The web has still the image of a tool serving for too many things at the same time. That is the reason why the very majority of the Miami student said that a student who has been to lectures, presentations for real will be better in the market place than the online graduated student. [...]