Abstract
The lived experiences of graduate school students in accessing the internet outside the university as alternative source for their research activities is examined and explored. In this paper, results show two facets of experiences: the favorable and unfavorable. Accessibility to all websites, fast internet connection, availability, and comfort of internet facilities emerged as favourable themes while expensive facility services, noisy, crowded, unsafe environment, difficulty in verifying the eliability information, flash drives could easily be infected with viruses, susceptibility to power interruption and lack of privacy for researchers appeared to be their unfavourable experiences. Student researchers compared their experiences in the use of internet facilities from in and out-campuses in terms of: connection, guidance from the experts, environment, power sustainability, accessibility, adequacy of facilities and network bandwith. These comparisons encouraged the students to think of possible solutions and to make some proposals to improve the internet facility inside the university for high accessibility and additional facilities such as fast internet connection, Wi-Fi free zone classrooms and other areas, a separate graduate school internet library, starting a “Learning Commons”, additional databases, a computer laboratory rooms with printers and increase the number of professional librarians for research guidance.
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phenomenology, qualitative research, off-campus internet facility, in-campus internet facility, Wi-Fi, graduate school students, information searching, research activities, Davao City, Philippines
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