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WhatsApp, an Educational Computer System?

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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2021)

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Can WhatsApp be used as an educational computer system? This question had not been answered conclusively by current research and was a global imperative for the computers and education research and practice communities given that over a quarter of the entire world’s population used WhatsApp. To advance the field, educational theory and practice and to give meaning to WhatsApp in education, empirical quantitative evidence was gathered with a questionnaire to measure mobile collaborative learning on WhatsApp. The results indicated that increased collaboration on WhatsApp improved academic achievement and improving other key aspects such as active learning, trust, support, formality, interaction and interdependence enhanced collaboration and, in turn, improved academic achievement. The study advanced educational computer theory and mobile collaborative learning theory and provided evidence-based learning design guidelines for incorporating WhatsApp into learning programs for improved academic achievement.

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    Bangisisi Zamuxolo Mathews Nyembe & Grant Royd Howard

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Nyembe, B.Z.M., Howard, G.R. (2021). WhatsApp, an Educational Computer System?. In: Bentahar, J., Awan, I., Younas, M., Grønli, TM. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12814. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83164-6_11

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