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Whatsapp As A Social Media Tool For Teaching And Learning In Tertiary Institutions In Nigeria
[A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT]
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Heba (2015), opined the following advantages of whatsapp usage in 21st century education:
1.
It has a high security feature as it provides more security than other
messenger app across the social media circle, and messages sent are
always encrypted for security and privacy.
2. Another advantage of whatsapp is that it provides extremely fast messaging service;
3. It has no ads, and it is completely free.
4. It has unlimited cloud storage.
Whatsapp
is considered a student-centered asynchronous teaching app that uses
online learning resources to facilitate information sharing beyond the
constraints of time and place among a network of people. Asynchronous
learning is based on a student-centered approach that emphasizes the
importance of peer-to-peer interactions. This approach combines
self-study with asynchronous interactions to promote learning, and it
can be used to facilitate learning in traditional on-campus education,
distance education and continuing education (Denysiuk, Plavutska &
Fedak, 2018)
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Whatsapp is a powerful
social media app for many other objectives other than education. It
enables many business companies advertise their business companies to
promote and create awareness on products and services, and get feedback
from customers. The challenge of whether whatsapp improves or decreases a
student’s academic performance is often expressed in larger issues
identified with it overall usage (e.g., privacy and safety concerns; its
psychological effects; individual self-discipline and self- regulation
concerns; human adaptability concerns). Another major challenge affected
by the usage of the app. This tool can be used by people for
collaboration, networking, and production purposes: but they can also be
used for less worthy objectives. Therefore, this research investigate
whatsapp as a powerful social media tool for teaching and learning.
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The
main aim of the research is to investigate Whatsapp as a social media
tool for teaching and learning in tertiary Institution across Nigeria.
With the following objectives:
Examine students’ perception on the use of whatsapp for teaching and learning in tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
Effective assess usage of whatsapp for teaching and learning to improve academic performance among students.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Whatsapp is getting to be one of most tools for communication among people, where everyone can exchange, share, comment, discuss and create information and knowledge in a collaborative way. With the increase in Social media rapidly changing the communications landscape, it emergence has impacted significantly how students learn and the way instructors teach. In today tertiary institution settings, lecturers, students and others collaborate on the tasks of knowledge construction. The definition o ... Continue reading---
