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Ontology of Ubiquitous Learning: WhatsApp Messenger Competes Successfully with Learning Management Systems (LMS)

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Advances in Computer Vision (CVC 2019)

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The purpose for this research was to add to the body of research and further study how mobile learning can help to remedy the limitations e-learning poses for students who live in the sub-Saharan Africa Region with lack of access to electrical power and internet connectivity issues. Qualitative approach was employed with a total sample size of 807 students, composed of 58% male and 42% female. In this study, I made several assertions that, for WhatsApp to work properly in any classroom in sub-Saharan Africa, there must be intentional designs and step-by-step approach to teach both the faculty and the students how to use the application to achieve the utmost outcomes. I, therefore, concluded that using WhatsApp Messenger in a blended mobile learning context can help resolve many of the contextual difficulties that plague students in an e-learning situation.

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Koomson, W.K. (2020). Ontology of Ubiquitous Learning: WhatsApp Messenger Competes Successfully with Learning Management Systems (LMS). In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S. (eds) Advances in Computer Vision. CVC 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 944. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17798-0_11

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