A recent study on students at a university in the UK has found that just more than two percent of the total internet activity though the university’s WiFi was used on education. “There was four times more social media activity, ten times more search activity and three times more shopping activity over the academic year [compared to education internet activity],” the authors said. “A better balance between education activity and distraction activity” is needed for WiFi at universities, the team wrote. The team studied the internet activity of 12,000 students and 1,000 staff at a university by observing their internet usage, tracking the domain of the websites they accessed. Online activities were gathered from the University Network through an academic year from September 2018 to May 2019 Based on the domain, the team then categorised network activity as educational if the domain contained “edu,” search activity if domain is google.com, …