Digital Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Dodamarg

More, Ramkisan Digital Information Literacy Among Undergraduate Students in Dodamarg. Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR), 2021, vol. 8, n. 3, pp. 973-977. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Digital literacy is an important skill required for everyone living in the todays 21st century. The information and communication technology has influence on the social and economic life of academicians. To retrieve the required information in right time the person should be digitally literate. This research paper focuses on the digital information literacy skills among the undergraduate students of arts and commerce faculties in Laxmibai Sitaram Halbe College, Dodamarg. The study also focuses on awareness of digital resources, purpose of using digital resources, frequency of using digital resources etc. the researcher has applied survey method and data was collected using online google quiz. It is also found that large number of students (61.3%) use internet for the reading e-newspapers and only 12.9% of students are using internet for browsing e-books. It was also found that most of the respondent (98.4%) students are aware of only google search engine.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Information literacy; e-information literacy; digital information literacy; undergraduate students; online resources
Subjects: C. Users, literacy and reading. > CE. Literacy.
Depositing user: Ramkisan A. More
Date deposited: 30 Apr 2021 22:46
Last modified: 30 Apr 2021 22:51
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/41971

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