A Better way to learn - Internet or Books?

Eassy Outline

1. Introduction
2. Computer and Internet
3. Role of books
4. Part and parcel of life
5. More useful way of learning
6. Denmark set a new example
7. Conclusion

Books have been the main source of learning throughout the pas4 centuries. As the ways of communication developed, man learnt to convey his knowledge to others by diverse channels. Besides the printed versions of books, journals and newspapers, the electronic media also played its role in the expansion of knowledge. Radio, film and television contributed a great deal in this regard. In learning, the recent phenomenon of computer proved its utility par excellence. Its manifold functions facilitated the learners beyond description. With the Internet access, computer became a magical device. It is indeed an explosion of information.

Books played a great role in disseminating knowledge across the globe. Libraries always quenched the thirst of knowledge in educational institutions and beyond. Book reading remained a source of pleasure f,r scholars as well as the common man.0020 With the advent of computer and then Internet, the process of learning took a sudden turn. In all the advanced countries, computers are the main learning aids in classrooms and at homes. Internet has become the part and parcel of educational activities as well as everyday life routine.

Internet provides a computer-assisted learning that is quick while the learning by books is a slow process. Learning by books is conventional and basic scheme than learning by Internet. For the students, computer networking in the classrooms ensures easy access to the study material than books. Fast surfing and browsing which we do with the help of search engines is not possible by hoard of books.

The knowledge at the Internet is updated daily whereas the books take time of months and years to be updated. Thus the books cannot surpass the Internet in providing fresh data. Then research merely by books is not feasible nowadays.

Last year. Denmark became world’s first country to permit the students the use of Internet in the final examination.

From these conjunctions. I came to the conclusion that Internet has no match in learning. Books have their limited utility but Internet access goes beyond the spectrum of books.