Abstract
Recent past has witnessed the fast use of the information and communication technology in the ever developing field of education. Enormous information is brought to the classroom for easy access by the learner anywhere in the world. Learners of today are distinguished by their proficiency in use of technology to know about assessment and successful management of informational opportunities. Critical analysis of existing education scenario emphasizes the introduction of major thrust areas as Information Communication Technology, literacy, organization of curriculum, and others. This is to elevate the standard of education and disseminate the information in shortest time with use of online and offline resources through internet. These are for professional growth, teaching support materials and other classroom related activities. The research work and true knowledge of topics calls for the need to evaluate the information provided on the internet. The present paper caters to this need, especially in context to intellectual information available on the internet. The research work in this paper is accomplished by selecting a system of quality criteria and defining in terms of internet usage for intellectual purpose. Several questions are designed to assess each criterion and as a result an instrument is developed and validated in the form of a questionnaire. The quality criteria taken into consideration are as Content, Objective reasoning, Scope, Authority; these are further classified into indicators for easy assessment. The collected data has been tabulated and analysed to rank the criteria as per their preference for quality assessment of the intellectual information available on the internet. The results indicate that authority is the most preferred criteria while objective reasoning is the least preferred one as per their calculated mean values.
Highlights
Advances in scientific research have given rise to sophisticated new technologies in the fields of Information Communication Technology (ICT) that drastically change the concept of a largesized diversified world to a global village
The one thing all these computers have in common is the use of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), which allows computers of different types to communicate with each other
In the view of above mentioned issues especially in context to intellectual information available on the internet, this paper presents the quality criteria for evaluating intellectual information
Summary
Advances in scientific research have given rise to sophisticated new technologies in the fields of Information Communication Technology (ICT) that drastically change the concept of a largesized diversified world to a global village. The user, teachers and students surf the internet to find and locate the suitable information These all need to evaluate the credibility of the information. The web is easy to use, yet many users do not look into the details of quality of information provided to them This problem becomes even more critical when unlike other printed books, journals and articles; almost any kind of information can be put on the web by anyone with the knowledge of internet and the computer. Quality of online education is dealt with appropriateness and completeness to be adjudged by the faculty in typical academic culture for encouragement development autonomy It was defined as evaluation of specific learning outcomes with help of the instructor formulating the syllabus. The maximum output could be availed with good availability, acceptability, economy and validity of the media used for intellectual information
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