The Study of Students Perceptions of On-campus ... - Research Bank

2.3 Summary
This literature review is the basis of the research. Before searching the
literature, the key words of wireless local area networks were identified.
The scope of the search area was within the education sector.
This chapter reviewed 22 articles from the first university – University of
California in Santa Cruz California which adopted WLANs at campus on
1995 – to the McLaughlin (2008) and Cox (2008) reports of two universities
currently upgrading their on-campus WLANs to 802.11n technology. These
articles showed the processes of development of WLANs in the education
sector.
Preview of these articles showed that one of the reasons for providing
WLANs on campus was the demand from students and faculty. Most of the
articles report the decisions made and the processes of adopting WLANs at
campus.
Brawn, Koan & Caye (2004) was the only report on security issues in this
literature review. Sharp (2001) reported a different pattern, where
students of Minnesota State University proposed to use WLANs and were
involved in the process of the project. Campbell & Pargas (2003) reported
the use of WLANs in lectures in a different point of view from users’
perspective.
With the knowledge from the literature review, the researcher designed
this research and aimed to determine the issues arising from the use of
on-campus WLANs from the perspective of students. The research
questions were generated and developed by reviewing academic literature
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