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Download full textPimmer, 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
Pimmer, Christoph; Chipps, Jennifer; Brysiewicz, Petra; Walters, Fiona; Linxen, Sebastian; Gröhbiel, Urs – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This exploratory study investigates how a typically disadvantaged user group of older, female learners from rural, low-tech settings used and perceived a Facebook group as a research supervision and distance learning tool over time. The within-stage mixed-model research was carried out in a module of a part-time, advanced midwifery education…
Descriptors: Supervision, Social Media, Disadvantaged, Research Tools
