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view, professors could use these features to help improve their teaching.
From the students’ point of view, they could benefit from instant feedback
and communicate during the class. With the eight features, the classrooms
would become more flexible and functional. The rules for exams may need
to be changed in that they are not only “open book” but also “open web”.
Roshan & Leary (2003) mentioned several considerations for design of
wireless LAN in an educational environment. The first consideration was
the convenience: “WLANs give them the opportunity to provide ubiquitous
coverage so that they can bring networks to the students instead of bringing
the student to the network” (Roshan & Leary, 2003, pp. 246-247). The
second consideration was the cost savings: “As computers have become a
larger part of the learning process, the time and resource savings that
wireless brings has proven to be rewarding” (Roshan & Leary, 2003, pp.
246-247). The third consideration was no physical boundaries: “many
school buildings were designed before the computer revolution. It just might
not be feasible to run wires to the students” (Roshan & Leary, 2003, pp.
246-247). The fourth consideration was the challenges, in deploying
wireless in an educational environment, of “ensuring that the
infrastructure can support a multivendor client environment” (Roshan &
Leary, 2003, pp. 246-247). This means “these scenarios create a situation
that can include client devices with many different operating systems and
with wireless NIC devices that need to communicate with a common
infrastructure” (Roshan & Leary, 2003, pp. 246-247). The fifth
consideration was security. The wireless LAN provider might want to
restrict the access level for different user groups. Roshan & Leary (2003)
believed that “the easiest and most rapidly deployable solution might be to
employ wireless bridges to connect the remote network with the school
network.”
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