Using mobile devices to leverage student access to collaboratively-generated resources: A case of WhatsApp instant messaging at a South African University

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10.2991/icaicte.2013.66How to use a DOI?

Keywords

WhatsApp, MIM, collectively-generated resources, dialogic interactions

Abstract

WhatsApp instant messaging has poten-tial to bridge information divides between educators and students. Its capacity to create personalised environments was harnessed to share collectively generated educational resources among previously disadvantaged students (PDS) students at a South African university. Data analysis combined mobile instant messaging-mediated (WhatsApp) interactions among students and educators and student evaluations of WhatsApp’s value using blogs. Results suggest that students conceived WhatsApp as a lever for bridging access to peer-generated resources, heightening on-task behaviour and promoting meaningful context-free learning.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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