Computer and everyday life

An information system (IS) is an organized system for the collection, organization, storage and communication of information. More specifically, it is the study of complementary networks that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and distribute data. "An information system (IS) is a group of components that interact to produce information." A computer information system is a system composed of people and computers that processes or interprets information.The term is also sometimes used in more restricted senses to refer to only the software used to run a computerized database or to refer to only a computer system.

2015

Information technology usage has been a major focus of information systems research for more than two decades. This is because information technology usage has been demonstrated to be a key driver of organizational performance. While most prior research on information technology usage has focused on initial usage or acceptance (Anderson et al., 2001; Davis et al., 1989; Taylor and Todd, 1995), long term information technology usage or continuance has recently gained increased attention among researchers (Devaraj and Kohli,

After working many years on the computer security, I have seen most of the systems in service extremely vulnerable to attach. Actually installing security on the system is very expensive, that's why peoples are far away from this according to my experience. Since there's been small damage, people decide that they don't want much security. Security is playing crucial role in their life, but it is very difficult to have security on all the systems. Nowadays peoples are thinking towards security, because without security, very difficult to make daily transactions.

Online Submission, 2004

With the developments of Information High Technology, all applications of the instruction start to have tendency towards technology based instruction instead of directed, teacher-centered instruction. It is important to mention that computers are the main instructional support to the learning and teaching process. As a human being, there is an adaptation process of the new developments and implications as well. Therefore; the research based study handled the attitudes of students towards computers and its new trends. By the way; attitudes towards teacher-centered instruction versus student centered instruction and tendency towards the place of technology in learning and teaching process can be determined with the reflections of the statistical surveys. Required research reflected the consciousness about the use of computer in every day of life and educational cycle as well. It is important to mention that computers require more alternatives and advantages to students and their educational studies. Computers provide fast, easy research and analysis for the students studying field. As a technological tool, it provides the equal standards, opportunities and easy path for the successful understanding and also meaningful learning for students. In order to be reflective, recommend on the usage of computers and facilities, there should be examination of the thoughts, attitudes of students towards computer.

IAFOR Journal of Education

This scoping study examines the degree to which twenty two undergraduate students used their personal computers to support their academic study. The students were selected based on their responses to a questionnaire aimed at gauging their degree of computer skill. Computer activity data was harvested from the personal computers of eighteen students and video footage of the students personal study sessions was gathered from a further four students. Three core themes emerged: (1) Academic Use vs. Non-academic Use; (2) Computer Orientated vs. Paper Orientated; and (3) Self-reports of Practice vs. Actual Practice. Overall results suggested three fundamental behaviors relating to technology use: 1] they were more likely to engage in nonacademic work than academic work on their personal computer; 2] they were more inclined to use paper-based approaches compared to digital ones despite the high rate of personal computer ownership and internet access; 3] there was a disparity between students' self-reports of the degree to which they used their personal computers for academic purposes (high) and nonacademic purposes (low) to what we found from computer logs which showed academic use as low and non-academic use as high. From these results we conclude that for this group of students computers played an important role in their day to day lives, but the degree to which they were used in their academic study was lower than we had expected.

2003

Background and rationale This project set out to investigate what students use computers for outside the University and what inhibited their use of computers outside the University. The issue arises out of regular discussion in Learning and Teaching groups and Technology Supported Learning (TSL) groups as well as in module evaluation by students. The issue was noted in an evaluation of online delivery experiment in HLSS by Jon Bernardes. The key rationale for the project is to determine where the University should prioritise information technology (I.T.) support and infrastructure. Would discounted PC purchase schemes be more effective for our learners than ever increasing number of computers being installed on site? The Research A questionnaire was produced (see appendix 1) and distributed to TSL coordinators from each of the ten academic schools. Questionnaires were also distributed via learning centres on the various campuses. In total 1000 copies of the questionnaire were distributed with 284 returned. It was originally thought the questionnaire would also be available online but this was not implemented as it was thought that this might skew results in favour of students with higher I.T. confidence and competence. The Outcomes Results Overview (see results tables in appendix 2) Over 90% of respondents own their own computer, although 4.77% rely totally on the University for their computing provision. Over 85% of responding students have access to the Internet from outside the University. The majority of students (over 81%) would prefer to work from home. 71% said they use their computers to help with their studies 66% said they access module related resources from outside the University whilst 31% said they would if they were available. 235 people (83.33% of the total sample) use University provision and 250 people (88.65% of the total sample) use a home computer to help with studies. This indicates that there is a significant overlap in the use of computing facilities between home and University.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY, 2012

The purpose of this research is to investigate and understand how students are using computer. The activities that a student undertakes with the help of computers which might be fulfilling some academic or non academic purpose, is of great interest. It will help in understanding the limitations and potentials offered by the technology for use of computer in classroom. This paper brings out the three major kinds of activities that students undertake with computer; selflearning activities, Information collection tasks and communication and group activities. The study further analyses the effect of demographics i.e. gender, age and faculty (department) of students on the activities with computer. The results show that gender has no impact on the activities of students with computer. The age impacts only the activities related to Information collection by using computer where as the faculty of student significantly impacts all the activities viz. self-learning activities, Information collection tasks and communication and group activities. The findings from this research can be used in designing future e-learning initiatives and development e-learning tools.

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