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

getting entertainment from his home country.
Participant A
Participant A was a Bachelor of Architecture student. A is a foreigner and
she came to New Zealand with her best friend who was also her class mate
three months earlier. A and her friend were in the 3 rd year of their course.
They usually spent most of their time on campus. If they did not have many
classes, they would take their own laptops to the library and connect to the
WLANs to surf the Internet, do some research for their course and download
some stuff.
Participant MC
Participant MC was a Master of Computing student. MC was doing her 2 nd
year at UNITEC New Zealand. She said she was a Postgraduate Diploma in
Computing student last year, and she did not plan to continue to the Master
course when she first came to Unitec. She did quite well the previous year
and enjoyed studying here. MC was quite busy; she had two part time jobs so
that she could only come to school once a week on Wednesday or Thursday
afternoons. Normally, MC spent at least four hours at school and certainly
she needed the WLANs to get on the Internet to do her research and
assignments. Like participant E, MC also had a swipe card to get into the
graduate centre. If necessary, she used that to get into the graduate centre
when the library was closed.
Participant M
Participant M was a Bachelor of Applied Technology student, specialising in
Automotive Engineering. Usually M had more practical classes than lectures.
He came to the library once a week. His main reason for using WLANs was
purely for research. “I always write my assignments in the library” he said.
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