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Mobile Instant Messaging for Mobile Learning Activity: Use of WhatsApp Group as a Mobile Learning Platform in Anak Pintar Community

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Anggun Nadia Fatimah, Ummi Salamah
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Anggun Nadia Fatimah
Available Online 27 November 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201125.027How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Komunitas Anak Pintar, Mobile Instant Messaging, Mobile Learning, Virtual Learning Community, Whatsapp
Abstract

Equipped with various features, WhatsApp is the most popular mobile instant messaging (MIM) used by Indonesian internet users. This platform allows one-to-one and even one-to-many communications. WhatsApp is also potentially used to assist mobile learning activities. Mobile learning is a digital learning activity that uses both mobile devices and internet connectivity to help overcome time and space barriers in the learning process. This study aimed to investigate the use of WhatsApp in mobile learning activities in Komunitas Anak Pintar (KAP, smart children community), one of Indonesia’s virtual communities. Under qualitative design and constructivist paradigm, this study sought to understand the social meaning created in context, especially on how MIM is used as a mobile learning platform in a virtual community and how learners perceived it. A case study method with in-depth interviews was used as the data collection technique. Results showed that learning through WhatsApp was positively perceived as efficient, flexible, less formal, informative, adjustable, helpful, and accessible. However, it also has limitations such as device and connectivity dependency, problems in learning process and materials, and lower community sense of belonging.

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Volume Title
Joint proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2019) and the 4th Universitas Indonesia Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
27 November 2020
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10.2991/assehr.k.201125.027
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2352-5398
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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