1. Course Decision

1.1 How did you make the decision to study here at RDI?

1.2 How did you find out about RDI?

1.3 Who and what influenced your decision to study your particular programme?

1.4 What were the main criteria that you used to make your decision?

1.5When choosing which course to study, did RDI as a further education provider influenceyour decision? Or, was the decision purely based upon the specific programme or University?

1.5 If so, why?

1.6 Choosing the right course was important to you but how and where did you start searching?

1.7 Did you use a search engine to do research about what course to study?

1.8 Which search engine/s did you use?

2. Technology Habits

2.1Please rank the below digital activities by how frequently you use them on a daily basis. Please indicate which platform you mainly use for each activity by ticking within the appropriate column.Digital ActivityFrequencyDesktopLaptopMobileTablet

Searching for Information

Social Media/Networking

Utilities e.g. shopping, online banking

Entertainment e.g. music, videos

Email/IM

Blogging/Forums

* Please rank frequency in order from 1 to 5, with 1 referring to most frequently used activity and 5 being the least frequently used activity

3. Media Habits

3.1List the sites that you use most often within a week in the left hand column below and indicate what you use them for. Please also indicate how often you use them by clicking the appropriate field.

Enter Media TypeUsageDaily or Almost Every DaySeveral Times a WeekAbout Once a WeekLess than Once a Week

e.g. Yahooe.g. News

3.2Please give examples of forums or blogs you like to use.

3.3 What is the most exciting new digital/technological feature that you and your friends are using right now?

4. News Habits

4.1Are you interested in local news? If so, where do you and your friends find out about local developments?