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

Participant N
Participant N was a Certificate in Nursing student. She was new at Unitec,
doing her 1 st year. She came to the library every day in the afternoon and got
on WLANs for at least one hour. E-learning was quite important for her, she
said. If she had spare time, she also surfed the Internet for a while.
Participant BC
Participant BC was a Bachelor of Computing student. He was doing his 2 nd
year of the course. BC studied very hard. He spent all his time in school and
used WLANs for over 7 hours a day. Although his classes were all in Mt.
Albert Campus, Waitakere Campus was much closer to his home. So if he
wanted to study at school, he would come to Waitakere Campus on the day he
did not have any classes. Usually, BC studied in the library. But he also
studied in the cafeteria area. He said he liked to sit in different
environments.
Participant B
Participant B was a Master of Business student. He had been off school for
one semester but he always came to school and spent more than six hours on
campus. He said he was trying to find a full time job and that was why he did
not take any class for this semester but he would go back to class next
semester. He really enjoyed staying at school with friends so he came to
school every day. B was only comfortable in the graduate centre so the
interview took place in the graduate centre. B was easygoing, and some
students came to say hello to him during the interview. He said he made a lot
of friends there. He did research, surfed Internet and chatted with friends
over the Internet when he was in the graduate centre.
Participant P
Participant P was a Certificate of Proficiency student and he was in his 4 th
year of the course. P came to campus every day at 9 o’clock in the morning
either to the library or building 76. P usually did some research, discussions
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