How to use the Internet in education?

Education and the Internet Technological development has led to the advancement of teaching methods to include the use of modern means, such as the network, or the so-called Internet, and the Internet is millions of computers in the world, which are connected to each other by telephone lines or satellites, Once as a military communications network in 1969, by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense to prevent nuclear attacks. The Internet has become widely used in education in most countries of the world in different universities and schools because of its many advantages that have benefited the individual in all areas of life, including education.

Advantages of using the Internet in education

1. Lack of material cost, it only needs a computer and the Internet.
2. Ease of access to information from any place we want and at any time.
3. Flexibility in teaching. The speed of access to information, thus saving time on the student and teacher.
4. A new way to create a new learning environment. The information is up-to-date, so every day the information is updated on the Internet. Unlike the book, we can not renew it unless we renew it.
5. Providing papers, thereby reducing the logging process that affects the environment.
6. Easy communication between students and teachers through the Internet. Through the Internet, we can create groups between students. This is a collaborative learning process that develops students' abilities.
7. When we use the Internet to teach, we move the student from passive learning to learning through self-direction. Easy and flexible exchange of views and information.
8. Education becomes local to global.
9. Developing students' thinking and creative abilities and creating an atmosphere of creativity among students.
10. Get the opinions of several teachers or thinkers on the topic we want to look for.
11. Create a chapter without limits.
12. Not to observe certain hours, so that through the Internet we can put the material that we want, and resort to the student at the time he deems appropriate.

Obstacles to using the Internet in the education process

• Lack of equipment available in schools or universities, some developing countries find that the cost of hardware is high for them.
• Progress and development of hardware and software, which makes us constantly change it, and this works as a physical obstacle to educational institutions. The language barrier in the Internet, so that there are many programs are in foreign language and not Arabic.
• Lack of appropriate educational software for the education process in schools.
• Lack of awareness of teachers, sometimes some teachers reject the process of education through the Internet, and for them the book is the only source.
• Lack of scientific experimentation or manual skills in the Internet.
• Lack of Internet censorship The problems of viruses that abound online sites affect the student in terms of health or nervousness when sitting for long hours on the computer.