Over the period, Internet usage has seen tremendous growth. The number of Internet users across the world increased from 394 million to 1.858 billion. By 2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1 billion Google searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs, and 2 billion videos viewed daily on YouTube – Refer Fig 1.1 source International telecommunication union. India stands third biggest nation in internet usage, with high social & mobile audience.
Due to the advent of high speed internet service provider’s information can be accessed as and when it is required. The all new Wi-Fi technology and in the near future Li-Fi technology, Broadband connection, Data card, mobile data shall help the users
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They spend nearly 80% of time in social media & applications. 20% of the time is spent to complete their assignments & projects.
Impact of Internet in higher education:
The respondents from all the age groups mostly depend on internet to complete their assignments and projects. And the respondents accessing or downloading information from the internet source were not validating the data. They are not aware of Google scholars and research articles published in internet. Since, the respondent submits a hard bound thesis it is very difficult for the evaluator to check for plagiarism. Most of them have a guilty feeling that they claim someone else work. But they still justify that they do it for their career benefit.
Free flowing information in the web world:
After examining the respondents from all the three age groups the researcher found that the free flowing information is an advantage for respondent to collect information. Search engines like Internet explorer, Google chrome, Firefox, Safari play a vital role in searching information. All the respondents were familiar with these search engines. Majority of the students from all the three age group use Google search