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6. Conclusions and Recommendations
This research determined issues arising when students use the on-campus
WLANs at either campus of UNITEC New Zealand. This research further
analysed the opportunities for an education setting to provide or improve
on-campus wireless networks to students.
A predominantly qualitative research approach was taken to answer the
research questions. An in-depth literature review was conducted in order to
determine the importance and benefits of providing the WLANs on campuses.
Some academic literature quoted in this thesis pointed out that laptops had
become necessary in class and students had to take laptops to school. In
addition, the status of adopting WLANs at educational institutes was
identified and technologies and security issues were discussed. The literature
review showed few opinions from users but a huge amount of information
about the popularity of WLANs in higher education sectors. Most of the
academic literature discussed the WLANs from the provider’s point of view.
The literature review created the basis of this research. The survey and
interview questions were based on the findings of the literature review.
Sixty-four users of the on-campus WLANs at UNITEC New Zealand were
surveyed randomly and ten students from the survey were selected and
interviewed face-to-face. The surveys and interviews focused on the student’s
perceptions of using WLANs on campus. The data gathered for this research,
including literature review, observation, surveys and interviews, were
divided into seven parts according to how the content related to particular
research sub-questions.
The first three sub research questions “What kind of students are the users of
on-campus WLANs? What do students use on-campus WLANs for? What are
the behaviours of students use on-campus WLANs?” have been answered as
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