Abstract
A test containing 12 questions and a questionnaire comprising 15 pairs of statements have been developed. 171 undergraduate students have been tested and surveyed. A statistical processing of the results has been carried out, and charts illustrating the survey results have been built. When analyzing the data, summarizing the results and formulating conclusions, a systematic approach was applied. There are six types of Internet activities that are most characteristic of the student body in question. With the help of the questionnaire based on a pair-wise comparison method, the relative time spent by the respondents on these activities was determined. The students were proved to spend approximately as much time on their studies as they do on each of the following three activities: communication with friends, hobbies and aimless surfing the network. The students are less interested in playing games or watching news. One cannot deny the benefits of using ICT for pursuing hobbies, but it is obvious the amount of time wasted on browsing the network should be reduced. Besides, it is significant to replace virtual communication with friends by their face-to-face interaction at least partially. The language of social networks is far from observing literary norms. It ignores rules of punctuation and spelling. Taken out from virtual space into real life, this youth’s slang affects their behavior, way of thinking, which is, in fact, destructive for their personalities. Students’ overuse of ICT is a major social problem resulting in the decline in the quality of their education. In our opinion, for engineering students the reasons for this problem lies in their insufficient level of general culture, lack of self-discipline and strong willpower, underestimated need for knowledge, and lack of a meaningful, profession-oriented goal of education.
Highlights
The key elements of the innovations caused by the transition to new state educational standards in Russia are individualization of instruction due to a higher proportion of elective courses and the use of learning credits; the growing role of self study for students, their research work and its proper supervision
"transparency" of the educational process through detailed methodological support for subjects and its openness; point-rating evaluation of the results achieved in learning activities, a wide application of information and computer technologies are of great importance as well
Since no identification of Internet-addiction has been made in the present study, we found it reasonable to modify this test by adding our questions, each question having options for intermediate answers, apart from traditional “yes” and “no” (Table 1)
Summary
The key elements of the innovations caused by the transition to new state educational standards in Russia are individualization of instruction due to a higher proportion of elective courses and the use of learning credits; the growing role of self study for students, their research work and its proper supervision. The university is entitled to use e-learning and distance educational technologies. System-wide requirements for the implementation of undergraduate programs include unlimited access to electronic library systems and to the Universal Journal of Educational Research 8(3): 844-856, 2020 electronic information and educational environment of the organization. The latter is to provide teaching using e-learning, distance educational technologies, synchronous and (or) asynchronous interaction between participants of the educational process via the Internet
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