The Awareness of the Faculty Members And Their Assistantsin Beni-Suef University towards The Aplications of Web 2.0

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Libraries and Information Science Dept. Beni-Suef University (EGY) Egypt

Abstract

A University professor must be allowed an opportunity to learn about the latest developments and technologies in the area of the internet in general, and the world of the Web in particular, to be able to make use of them in carrying out his academic work and research. This study aims at measuring the attitudes of the Faculty members toward the techniques of Web 2.0. The researcher has chosen the Faculty members and the teaching assistants at Beni-Suef University as examples.
The importance of the internet and its impact on modern life cannot be denied. It has been able to change the pattern of modern life, to innovate different concepts and patterns of requirements, which have transformed the world into a small village thanks to the technology of communication, which made the Internet a window through which researchers and scientists acquire various kinds of knowledge and cultures
this study tries to answer the following queries: To what extent the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants use the Internet?,What are their skills in using the internet, and to what extent they benefit from the service of browsing? ,To what extent are the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants aware of the importance Web 2.0?,The ways through which the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants acquire the available information about the Web 2.0. ,How much knowledge do the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants have about Web 2.0? ,To what extent the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants use the services and sites available through the techniques of Web 2.0?,What are the opinions of the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants on the services and available sites through the techniques of Web 2.0?
This study attempts to measure the extent of the Faculty members of Beni-Suef University and their assistants' use of the applications of Web 2.0, the time limit of this study is the academic year 2011/2012 AD, when the researcher collected the data needed to conduct the study through the distribution of the questionnaire on the sample during this period

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