The Study of Students' Attitudes towards the Use of Internet in Education (Case Study: Kermanshah Azad University)

Introduction: Today, The use of the Internet in the university is a major issue. Thepurpose of this study was the study of students' attitudes towards the use of internet ineducation at Azad University Graduate Students in Kermanshah.Methods: The current research study done by a surveying method is a type of applied,descriptive and correlation research. The statistical population was the graduatestudents in Azad University of Kermanshah (N=996). Of those students 269 wereselected based on the Morgan's Table and a stratified sampling method. Theresearchers tool was a questionnaire structured into five parts: the first part includedthe demographic features of the respondents as the independent variables; the secondpart was the dependent variable section which included 20 questions about thestudents' attitudes in regards to the use of internet, other sections included the students'attitudes regarding internet as an instructional tool (4 question), internet as a researchtool (8 questions), and internet as a communication tool (8 questions). Thequestionnaire's questions were validated by the experts' reviewing from both AzadUniversity of Kermanshah and Bu Ali Sina University. The Cronbach's alphacoefficient was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaire and it was 87 percent.In addition, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and Spearman correlation coefficientwere used to analyze the data (P=0.05). Also it used SPSS software (Version19) foranalysis.Results: The results showed that the students have suitable attitudes towards the useof the Internet in education. The findings of the Mann-Whitney test showed nosignificant difference between students who use computers and those who do not usepersonal computers. The Spearman correlation coefficient showed a significantcorrelation between Internet use and students' attitudes. In addition, a significantcorrelation was observed between the Internet as a source of research (rs=0.164, P=0.036) and communication recourse (rs= 0.717, P= 0.000) with students' attitude.Conclusion: In general, it was found that students have a positive attitude towards theuse of Internet in education, however a slightly lower positive attitude about the use ofthe Internet in education to use in research activities and communication tools.

کلیدواژه ها:

Attitude ، teaching ، internet ، application ، training