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Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: H
Interdisciplinary
Volume 14 Issue 4 Version 1.0 Year 2014
Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal
Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA)
Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X
A Study of Students’ Experiences of Mobile Learning
By Tulika Bansal & Dr. Dhananjay Joshi
Abstract- These days mobile phones are ubiquitous with everyone and there is lot of craze for messanger
applications. Researchers has oftenly found their students asking them “Do you use WhatsApp?” or “Are
you on we chat?”. This tickled their mind and made them think how these mobile applications can help in
education. This very thought triggered the first step to this research. During session 2013- 2014, 37
student of B.Ed. (Bachelors in Education) programme were selected. All the selected students were using
smart phones and mobile application named ‘WhatsApp’. A WhatsApp group was created and students
& teacher interacted with each other through it during 40 days teaching practice schedule. After the end
of teaching practice schedule, students were asked to fill in the questionnaire on the experiences of
WhatsApp m learning and for knowing their attitude towards it. For in depth analysis, Interviews of 10
randomly selected students’ was also taken. Findings of the study show that student find learning through
WhatsApp very interesting and educationally useful. They found that their social interactivity with their
peers and teacher has increased moreover they learned collaboratively. The attitude of the students
toward WhatsApp m learning was favorable. The study also revealed that married students found learning
through WhatsApp disruptive and that they prefer learning in traditional classroom as it does not collide
with their family time.
Keywords: m learning, whatsapp, mobile devices, ubiquitious learning, collaborative learning.
GJHSS-H Classification: FOR Code: 671399p
AStudyofStudentsExperiencesofMobileLearning
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Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University