Role of Social Media in Teaching-Learning Among UnderGraduate Medical Students of Kolkata.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 12
Abstract
Introduction: In the modern cyber era, people often communicate through social media. Other than building and keeping mere relationship, different population group started to reap social media for special purposes. Students of different disciplines seen to use social media proficiently. Medical students are also no exception in this matter. Objectives: The current study was planned to understand the extent of use of social media by medical students especially for study purpose; benefits and harm of social media as per perception of the participants under study. Methodology: It is a descriptive, cross sectional study conducted at Medical College, Kolkata in 2017. All student of seventh semester were taken for study. A pre-designed and pre-tested data collection form was used and data analysed in excel worksheet in computer. Result: Among 135 students, 76.30% were male; 76.30% had urban origin, 47.41% students stay at college hostel.84.44%had smartphone, 56.30% had laptop, 25.93% had tablets and 19.26% had desktop in their possession. 98.52% used social media, among them, 99.25% used Face Book, 86.47% used WhatsApp and several others used Skype,Twitter, Hike, Instagram, Hangout etc. Average monthly expenditure for uses of social media was Rs. 279.44±494.42.Among 133 users 132(99.25%) used social media for education purpose, among users all used it for getting information of classes, 90.15% used it for solving queries, 77.27% used it for getting & sharing class notes & question paper.While all 135 students sought opinion on benefit of social media for study, 90.37% responded assertively. 64.75% said that they get class notes, 50.82% get schedule & information of classes. 74.07% opined that social medias are harmful for study, 47.41% said that social media wastes time & energy. Conclusion:Social media is a necessary evil. Many students get necessary information regarding schedule of classes and notes but at the same time some end up wasting a lot of time on unnecessary chatting and useless things
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Dr. Debasis Das, Dr. Dibyendu Raychaudhuri
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