e-Learning in electrical engineering

The first phase of the evaluation: students' expectations

4. Informatics tools and Internet

4.1. Access to a computer

Practically, all the Belgian, French and Portuguese students access a computer outside the university, compared with 8/10 of the Romanian students.

 4.2. Access to Internet

7/10 of the Romanian students do not access the Internet, at their residence:

  • 5/10 because they find that it would be too expensive;
  • 2/10 because they do not have a computer.

9/10 of the Belgian students can access the Internet at their residence, and 8/10 on high speed line.

9/10 of the Portuguese students can access the Internet their residence, and 7/10 on high speed line.

6/10 of the French students can access the Internet their residence, and 4/10 on high speed line:

  • 2/10 are not connected because they find it un useful;
  • 2/10 are not connected because they find it too expensive.

4.3. Usage of the computer

We have invited the students to make two personal options, one primordial and a secondary one, from a series of 8 potential usage of the computer.

a) To learn to use different software.
b) To learn different disciplines, as for examples foreign languages.
c) For computer games.
d) As editor for documents with different subjects.
e) For helping learn the courses.
f) To listen music and watch movies.
g) To save and edit pictures, videos.
h) To connect to Internet.

4.4. Internet

4.4.1. Frequency and duration of the connection

4.4.2. Internet usage

We have invited the students to make two personal options, one primordial and a secondary one, from a series of 8 potential usage of the Internet.

a) To visit information sites related to my studies.
b) To visit general information sites (newspapers, culture, sport).
c) To visit information sites related to my personal fields of interest.
d) I visit each, by curiosity.
e) Mainly, for e-mail.
f) For on-line games.
g) For chat.
h) For downloading music, games, software.

 4.5. Synthesis:

The Romanian students access less the Internet outside the university, compared with the students of the other implied universities.

The Portuguese and the Belgian students surf more frequently and spend the most time on Internet.

The usage of Internet, as support for their studies, seems to be quite frequent for the students of different universities, but the Portuguese students declare that use most frequently the Internet for this purpose.

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