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

assignments and research in the library and upload them to online storage
when the work was finished. It made him feel safe to save files at a second
place. He had been through the experience of losing everything because the
operating system crushed. These days with the provision of WLANs on
campus, he could sit at a quiet place and enjoy the experience of free Internet
connection.
There were many great reasons for him to talk about the convenience. But for
the inconvenience, he just mentioned the speed was not that fast
occasionally.
� The use of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) in class
This section shows whether the participants could use the WLANs in their
class and for what purposes they used the WLANs. As shown in Table 4-4,
participants L, M and N did not use WLANs in their class at all. Participant
M thought it was allowed to use WLANs in class because no one said it was
not allowed. But M would not use it since his classes are mainly practical.
Participants L and N said the WLANs could not be used in class. Participant
S said not all classes allowed the use of WLANs.
Participant S
Not all classes that participant S was taking required the use of the WLANs
in class. The major reason for using the WLANs in class for participant S was
to get lecture notes from the Internet. Participant S liked to use his laptop in
class and make class notes. The WLANs provided him the opportunity to get
on the Internet and retrieve some information or other material. He said it
allowed him to handle and/or control the processes of his study. It made him
more efficient than most of his other classmates who were not users of
on-campus WLANs.
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