The Reasons Of University Student On Using Internet For Education

THE REASONS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENT ON USING INTERNET FOR EDUCATION

Dicky Urianto Halimawan ÐŽV 03320030075

Industrial Engineering of Pelita Harapan University, Lippo Karawaci, Tangerang

Abstract

In the past few years, Indonesia has experienced the integration of the internet into society. This situation has created their presence in the market with taking us to the aim of this study that for know the reasons of university student on using internet for education. The data of benefits of using Internet for Education were collected and analyzed by using questioner comprised of 400 papers were collected and compared, it was performed by spreading the questionnaires to the two specific area at exact time in Pelita Harapan University, Lippo Karawaci and Trisakti University, Jakarta as sample to gain the senses. As the results, 31.50% of students said about they using internet because of internet was very easy to used , 27.75% said that internet cheaper then others, 23.00% said internat faster when use to search data, and 17.75% said that internet was better then library. Using internet for education as a facilities is very important thing because it make much advantages compared by another facilities.

Introduction

In the past few years, Indonesia has experienced the integration of the internet into society. And it was rapidly growing; even the students in big cities had used it to help them doing their assignment. Many schools and universities have internet on their computers to support their activities. And some of them have their own website to make the communication between students with school and students with students become easier.

Several researches have been studied about the benefits of using internet in studying. Gatot Subroto (2004) found that school magazine is very useful for the students as a medium to learn about self expression, put their idea, and moreover they can use it for communication media with the environment and the benefit for the school, they can make a communication with their alumni, who can give suggestions for the school. Heinich (1986) identified six types of studying interaction that can be implicated: drill and practice, tutorial, games, simulation, discovery, and problem solving.

KopWil (1999) observed that internet for studying is very useful for education in Indonesia because of its geographic condition. This can be used to make standardization for education of other educational associations. Besides the benefits above, there is another one that makes a very huge effect: using internet for education can help students when make their assignment. Although much work has been done to date, more studies need to be conducted to as certain the effect of using internet for education.

The purpose of the research reported here was to determine whether or not the using of internet for education can make benefits. This topic was identified as being importance to schools in set aside or not their school with internet facility.

Method

The data of benefits of using Internet for Education were collected and analyzed by using questioner comprised of 400 papers were collected and compared. This questioner separate into two groups of distributing, one group collected in Trisakti University and the other from Pelita Harapan University. These centers accept only student majoring Industrial Engineering in Pelita Harapan University and Trisakti University. Thus, each opinion of the subject was insured.

The subjects were selected student of each University by using random sampling method. The First activity was numbered every student of each University from the list. After every student have their number, wrote it at a piece of paper and collect them into a bucket. For the random sample data, researcher must get 400 of them by picked up one by one form the bucket. 200 from Trisakti University and another 200 picked from Pelita Harapan University. Random sampling data get from student whose have the number which picked up by researcher.

The test instrument employed in this study was a continued version of the journal ÐŽ§Internet untuk PembelajaranЎЁ (Drs. Hardjito. M.Si, 2002), It consists of a set of 400 questioners, each of which contains one pages questioner, one black pen. The data collected representing fluctuation of answers about the benefits using internet for education.

The questionnaires were arranged by multiple choices. The first question were only have two answers between ÐŽ§yesЎЁ or ÐŽ§noЎЁ in ever using internet for education or not. This question were to know whether people knew about the benefit of internet for education that became more popular in Indonesia lately. If this question were answered by ÐŽ§noЎЁ, they couldnÐŽ¦t answer the next question. The sampling of those who answered ÐŽ§noЎЁ would be taken if they picked one of the answers in second question because even they had never using internet, they never knew the advantage of using internet for education. Otherwise, they were assumed to be not valid.

The second question had four choices that were particularly answering this research. The four choices were four majors activity student using internet. This were also able to compare all of it. If the respondents did not pick answer ÐŽ§Educational BrowsingЎЁ from the choices in second question, their data were not taken to the sampling and also they could not answer the third question.

The third question had three choices for the reason of using internet for educational need that answered in the second question. They were ÐŽ§Low priceЎЁ, ÐŽ§Easier searching that I needЎЁ and ÐŽ§More Complete reference then I search in LibraryЎЁ. This question were to know the respondentÐŽ¦s consideration of using internet. When using this type of questioner reseacher needs more questioner that filled by respondent because of non-valid questioner will be eliminated.

Every set of test questioner will gave to chosen student from each High School and they were brought into class room to fill the entire question on the questioner. Some of them were individually asked by researcher about the topic of research.

The test required asking student from first until third grade to indicate how much the internet known by high school student, the question which asked to test student related with question ask in questioner. Test administration required 30 until 45 minutes to full fill entire of question and little time for asking question.

The result of each question