Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

Yazarlar: Nadire Cavus

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Özet: The information society has offered opportunities for people to show their skills and to prove themselves. The technology is being used widely in all aspects of our everyday life, is expanding everyday, and becoming part of our life, and is also very important in the future careers of Computer and Instructional Technology Education (CEIT) students and Computer Information Systems (CIS) students. Starting from this idea, this research has been carried out in order to find out the frequency of usage of data communication tools by students of both Departments at the Near East University. In this research, a total of 163 students participated with 84 from CEIT and 79 from CIS. The following data communication tools were used in the research: web based e-mail, chat, forum, web and multimedia based messenger (Yahoo, Hotmail, Ceptemsn, Skpe etc), Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and so forth. A literature search has been carried out in the research and in addition to the information obtained from this; a survey was setup to find out about the usage of data communications tools by students. The results of the survey have been analyzed and discussed using the SPSS 13.0 statistical package. In addition, we can say that it was found by the survey results that students not only follow the recent developments in technology very closely, but they also purchase and use such equipment according to their budgets. It was also found that students were aware that their Departments had very close links with the recent technological developments. Based on the results of the survey, students were given advice for their future career prospects, and they were also given advice on how they can use the data communication tools more frequently in education.

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