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Direct linkYee, Pinn Tsin Isabel – College Student Journal, 2021
With the advent of internet technologies, students are increasingly turning towards social media and cross-platform messaging apps such as Whatsapp, Line and WeChat to support their learning processes. Although each messaging app has varying features, Whatsapp remains one of the most popular cross-platform apps that allow for fast, simple, secure…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Synchronous Communication, College Students
Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo; Elizabeth Bukunola Lateef; Rhoda Temitope Oyebola; Folashade Munirat Lawal – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the challenges faced by working students in patronizing library services in Nigeria and to propose tailored solutions to enhance their patronage. A descriptive survey research design was used to collect data from 110 working undergraduate students, which was then analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Use Studies, Barriers
Yoshida, Reiko – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The paper examines the emotions of 15 learners of Japanese across seven weekly online text chats in Japanese with native Japanese speakers, and the factors that caused their emotions. The data came from questionnaires about the learners' biodata and previous experiences of text chats, weekly reports about their chats, transcripts of the chats, and…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Synchronous Communication
Download full textYasuda, Raymond – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2021
Widespread use of mobile instant messaging (MIM) both formally by educators and voluntarily by students to support coursework has resulted in increased interest in the academic utility of the technology. However, due to the relative newness of the technology there is a call for more studies on how MIM impacts teaching and learning. To address this…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education
Bronwyn C. Swartz; Sweta Patnaik – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2023
Objective: The purpose of the study was to propose guidelines to facilitate the sustainable and successful use of mobile instant messaging apps for learning and teaching based on a review of the literature and perceptions of educators. Fraser's model of redistribution, recognition, and representation served as the theoretical framework. This study…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Inclusion
Martínez, Dunia; Appel, Christine – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) applications have come into focus as potential tools to improve English language instruction, and teachers can engage more students from different backgrounds in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes thanks to MIM apps' distinctive features, like WhatsApp. Most of the reported studies on the use of WhatsApp in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Students, English (Second Language)
Xue, Sijia; Churchill, Daniel – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
As one of the most widely adopted mobile and social media applications, Tencent WeChat ® ('WeChat') has been increasingly used in education at all levels in Asia, and in China in particular. However, only a small number of studies have been conducted to explore educational affordances of WeChat. In this paper, these affordances are defined as…
Descriptors: Affordances, Models, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Uses in Education
Devers, Christopher J.; Devers, Erin E.; Alayan, Alexandra; Echeverry, Shawnie; Uros-Yarid, Allison; Robertson, John; Baquet, Zachary; Heavner, Shayla K.; Ruiz, Rudy; Miller, Paul D.; Ho, Nina; Davis, Kate; Johnson, Abigail; Deeter, Christian; Tripp, Steven; Leonard, Stephen – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2022
Study techniques that students report using are often ineffective. In this project, text messaging supported students utilizing evidence-based approaches -- low-stakes practice testing, distributed practice, and interleaved practice. Students enrolled in an undergraduate general chemistry course were divided into two groups through matched random…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, Undergraduate Students
Tarisayi, Kudzayi Savious; Munyaradzi, Everjoy – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered education across the globe in unprecedented ways. Higher education institutions were forced to rethink and innovate in order to save the academic year under these extraordinary circumstances. This study explored the experiences of students and lecturers at a university in Zimbabwe with using "WhatsApp"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Bere, Aaron; Rambe, Patient – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2019
The progressive development of mobile smart phones and instant messaging create opportunities for use of cost effective collaborative learning platforms in higher education. This paper presents a mobile learning (mLearning) initiative within the higher education context of a developing country. This qualitative study follows a case study approach.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Synchronous Communication, Higher Education
Hedges, S.; McIntyre, N. – Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020
"Autism at-a-Glance" is a series of practitioner and family-friendly documents created by the Center on Secondary Education for Students with ASD (CSESA) designed for high school staff members supporting students on the autism spectrum, as well as family members of adolescents with ASD. The purpose of the "Autism at-a-Glance"…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Isikgoz, Mustafa Enes – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2021
This study aims to analyze the intention of students studying at physical education and sports school to use synchronous virtual classroom environments during the Covid-19 pandemic period. The research was designed in a descriptive survey model with a quantitative approach. The study group of the research consists of 193 voluntary students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Athletics, Intention
Laverne Heather DaCosta – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The digital revolution of over twenty years has shifted how society communicates and the cellphone has become the most popular communication tool among adolescents. Consequently, cellphone use in the 21st century has extended to the classroom, and many educators are overwhelmed by students' unauthorized cellphone use. Researchers suggested…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Handheld Devices, Synchronous Communication, Attention Control
Pimmer, Christoph; Rambe, Patient – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This paper critically reviews literature on the role of Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) applications, such as WhatsApp, in supporting learning and teaching practice. Using formal qualitative synthesis as its methodology, and dialectical theory as an analytical framework, our main objective was to identify tensions, affordances, constraints, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Makoza, Frank – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2022
Rapid development and adoption of mobile technologies including Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) platforms have transformed teaching and learning practices over the past decade. This paper presents an analysis of how students used WhatsApp as an example of a MIM platform to organise their learning activities. Drawing on Rhizomatic Learning Theory…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
