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Bere, Aaron; Rambe, Patient – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2019
The progressive development of mobile smart phones and instant messaging create opportunities for use of cost effective collaborative learning platforms in higher education. This paper presents a mobile learning (mLearning) initiative within the higher education context of a developing country. This qualitative study follows a case study approach.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Synchronous Communication, Higher Education
Bere, Aaron; Rambe, Patient – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2016
Research on technology adoption often profiles device usability (such as perceived usefulness) and user dispositions (such as perceived ease of use) as the prime determinants of effective technology adoption. Since any process of technology adoption cannot be conceived out of its situated contexts, this paper argues that any pre-occupation with…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education
Rambe, Patient – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
There is scant evidence to demonstrate that researchers grasp the social dimensions of convergence, and particularly, the academic and social implications of converged media on students' lives. Despite a surge in student appropriation of social media-enabled mobile phones for exchanging educational resources and social practices, little is known…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Higher Education, Graduate Students
Pimmer, 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
Rambe, Patient; Bere, Aaron – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
One of the most complicated academic endeavours in transmission pedagogies is to generate democratic participation of all students and public expression of silenced voices. While the potential of mobile phones, particularly mobile instant messaging (MIM), to trigger broadened academic participation is increasingly acknowledged in literature,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices