Boundary Crossing for Education Continuity: Exploring WhatsApp’s Potential in Botswana During and Beyond the Pandemic

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Title

Boundary Crossing for Education Continuity: Exploring WhatsApp’s Potential in Botswana During and Beyond the Pandemic

Subject

Botswana
boundary crossing
COVID-19
educational technology
m-learning
WhatsApp

Description

Based on a conceptualization of WhatsApp as a boundary object that permits educational institutions to cross over from in-school teaching to out-of-school teaching, this study investigated the viability of WhatsApp as a mobile learning (m-Learning) technology tool for the continuity of teaching and learning in Botswana during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing a narrative review of the literature, we found that WhatsApp’s viability is supported by Botswana’s high mobile phone penetration rate, the extensive coverage of the country’s mobile broadband network, reduced domestic internet prices and research findings of WhatsApp’s technological, educational and academic advantages elsewhere. However, teachers require training to develop relevant technological and pedagogical competences. WhatsApp’s viability also requires inclusive access for all children including those from rural poor families and living with disabilities, and the protection of children learning online from mobile phone dependency and exposure to potentially harmful content and abuse.

Creator

Lyken-Segosebe, Dawn
Gamariel, Gladys
Bagai, Kelebonye

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 16 No. 02 (2022); pp. 59-81
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2022-01-28

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Dawn Lyken Segosebe, Gladys Gamariel, Kelebonye Bagai
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Lyken-Segosebe, Dawn, Gladys Gamariel and Kelebonye Bagai, Boundary Crossing for Education Continuity: Exploring WhatsApp’s Potential in Botswana During and Beyond the Pandemic, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2022, accessed November 5, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2158

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