Survey on Use of Social Media for Hiigher Education

This post is for all respondents of the survey related to the use of social media in higher education. 

Thanks for your interest to participate in the survey. The survey is meant for academic / research purposes only as a part of a study that has been sponsored by the Indian Council for Social Sciences Research (ICSSR). Your privacy is of utmost importance to the research team and your personal details will not be shared with any person / organization, except for the team involved in the study.

Please read the terms and conditions for the rewards for the survey.

1. The responses received till 07 June 2021 will be considered valid.
2. The participants are expected to fill the survey sincerely after properly comprehending the questions.
3. The participants must be users of at least one of the social media platforms, as mentioned in the survey.
4. Attempting to fill the survey with junk information will lead to disqualification from getting gifts.
5. All judgement in this regard taken by the team of research scholars will be final.
6. To appreciate the time and effort of the respondents for sincerely filling up the survey questionnaire, Amazon / Flipkart gift vouchers will be given to some randomly chosen respondents, as per the following guideline.
• Rs. 5000 to one respondent
• Rs. 3000 to three respondents
• Rs. 2000 to five respondents
• Rs. 1000 to fifteen respondents
7. The top five referrers, resulting in properly completed survey, will win gift voucher worth Rs. 1000 each.  At least 5 references should complete the survey properly to be eligible for this reward.
8. All gift vouchers will be fully redeemable without any condition.
9. Any faculty member associated with BITS Pilani will not be considered for any of the rewards.
10. The gift vouchers will be delivered to the winners on or before 15 July 2021. The winners will be notified through the mail address entered in the survey form only. Others will not be notified in any way.

Thanks once again for your time and patience to participate in the survey!

URL for Survey: https://forms.gle/AyMGBPm6zqwNZoqU7

Gifts Distributed!!

This post is exclusively for students of BITS Pilani who have been requested to participate in a survey being conducted from 19 Feb 2015 to 4 Mar 2015.

Flipkart gift vouchers sent to the following nine participants of the survey.

Individual Gifts:

• Aditya (2014A3PS296P)
• Sai (2011C6PS735P)
• Sarvesh (2013A4PS093P)
• Satwik (2011A3PS178P), 
• Surya Narayana (2014H149246P)

Group Gift:

• Anchal (2012B5A2681P)
• Armaan (2011A2PS484P)
• Charchit (2013A4PS344P)
• Devbrata (2014A8PS400P)
• Varun (2014A4PS409P)

All gifts are of the denomination won by the participants and are from Flipkart with one year validity. All these e-Gift Vouchers are sent to the mail ID confirmed by the above mentioned participants. In case of any issues, please send a mail to nirankush.dutta@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in .

Winners who have not yet confirmed their e-Mail ID for sending the gift vouchers are requested to confirm the same as soon as possible.

The online survey is open till 31 March 2015 and participants may win up to Rs. 1000. Assured referral prizes are also there for every five proper responses resulting from one's reference. So, spread the news and, if you have not yet participated, then fill in the survey by visiting http://www.tinyurl.com/survey-osm .

Second Phase of Gift Disbursal

This post is exclusively for students of BITS Pilani who have been requested to participate in a survey being conducted from 19 Feb 2015 to 4 Mar 2015.

All winners are requested to check their mail as soon as possible. Gifts will be sent within two days of confirming your E-Mail IDs.

Those who won Parker Pens may collect the same till 24 March 2015 (excluding 20-23 March 2015) in between 10 AM to 1 PM from Room No. 6070-F. Please bring your ID card when you come for collecting your gift. No friend can collect the gift on your behalf.

The online survey is open till 31 March 2015 and participants may win up to Rs. 1000. Assured referral prizes are also there. So, spread the news and fill in the survey by visiting http://www.tinyurl.com/survey-osm .

Half Century by IITians!!!

6 March 10:38 PM - 1st response from IIT
14 March 9:17 PM - 50th response from IIT

In eight days, the survey saw 50 completed response from IITians! Another 100 responses are partially filled as of now. We are really happy to see the response of so many IITians, despite their busy schedule. This definitely shows the love of IITians toward research. Good going. Keep it up.

Till now IIT- B, IIT- K, IIT- BHU and IIT- BBSR have been contacted, to the extent possible by the research team. You may refer your friends in any of the IITs to take part in the survey.

Please refer your friends to take part in the survey and, if you have not already finished it, try to complete as soon as possible.

The respondents can save the survey any time after the second page and finish it later at their convenient time. Please send a mail to nirankush.dutta@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in for any technical issues.

The survey is open till 31 March 2015.

URL for IITians: http://tinyurl.com/iit-osm-survey
URL for others: http://www.tinyurl.com/survey-osm

Survey Response Update: 11 Mar 2015

The response to the survey from IIT-B and BITS Pilani has been wonderful! The on-the-spot survey campaign generated 90 responses. More than 200 responses have been received to the version meant to be filled by non-IITians.

In two days, more than 20 complete responses have been received from IIT-B only. Other IITs have not yet been contacted individually.We would really be happy to see IITians referring their friends in other IITs to fill up the survey.

Keeping in mind the type of the questionnaire, it is really great to see so many responses arriving so soon.

Please refer your friends to take part in the survey and, if you have not already finished it, try to complete as soon as possible. 

The respondents can save the survey any time after the second page and finish it later at their convenient time. Please send a mail to nirankush.dutta@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in for any technical issues.

The survey is open till 31 March 2015.

URL for IITians: http://tinyurl.com/iit-osm-survey
URL for others: http://www.tinyurl.com/survey-osm

Request to Collect Gift

This post is exclusively for students of BITS Pilani who have been requested to participate in a survey being conducted from 19 Feb 2015 to 4 Mar 2015.

The below mentioned students are requested to collect their Parker Pens from the survey team at Room No. 6070-F between 9 Mar 2015 to 21 Mar 2015 (10:00 AM - 12:30 PM), except Saturday and Sunday.

• Mr. Karan Shah (2010HS23067P)
• Mr. Karthik Pattabhi Raman (2014H149261P)
• Ms. Madhuri Agarwal (2014H149237P)

Please bring your ID card while collecting the gift.

Respondents who opted for Gift Vouchers will be sent their gifts to their E-Mail IDs by the end of this week.

Gifts Won on 3 Mar 2015

This post is exclusively for students of BITS Pilani who have been requested to participate in a survey being conducted from 19 Feb 2015 to 4 Mar 2015.

The second last day of the survey campaign saw a lot of students coming to the spot in groups and most of them going happy for their contribution in research work as well as getting gifts from the team.

The winners of the day are:

1. Mr. Nagandla Sai Bhargav (2011C6PS735P)- Rs. 100
2. Mr. Armaan Gupta (2011A2PS484P)- Rs. 100 (Group Prize)
3. Ms. Anchal Garg (2012B5A2681P)- Rs. 100 (Group Prize)
4. Mr. Charchit Shukla (2013A4PS344P)- Rs. 100 (Group Prize)
5. Mr. Koushik Reddy (2011A7PS031P)- Rs. 100 (Group Prize)
6. Mr. Satwik Peruri (2011A3PS178P)- Rs. 100

The survey campaign will end today. But you can still participate in the survey online till 31 Mar 2015 by visiting http://www.tinyurl.com/survey-osm and win up to Rs. 1000. There are referral bonus as well, wherein every five proper responses resulting from the reference awards the referrer Rs. 100.