Test on Cyber Crime Awareness Among B.Ed. Students - S Kandeepan - Bog

Cyber crime is a term used to broadly describe criminal activity in which computers or computer networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity. It is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enable the illicit activity. In teaching-learning process, the use of Internet is inevitable. The importance of e-learning is increasing day by day. This is caused by distance learning and searching and sharing of study materials on the Internet. Besides it, Internet provides many search engines that helps a student as well as a teacher to find out the solutions of their problems. It also helps a teacher and a student to update their knowledge by getting the new information about new researches, new techniques etc. A teacher and a student can also get connected outside the class-room through the Internet. And, when they get the benefits of Internet, then of course, they should face the risk factors also attached to it. Hence, the awareness on cyber crime is very much needed for the learners and also for teachers, so that they can prevent to face the unexpected problems or cyber crimes such as hacking, phishing, spam and computer viruses.