The Impact of WhatsApp as an Instructional Tool for Online Distance Teaching and Learning (ODL)

Authors

  • Syarifah Adilah Mohamed Yusoff
  • Rozita Kadar
  • Wan Anisha Wan Mohamad
  • Azlina Mydin
  • Mohd Hanapiah Abdullah

Keywords:

Online Distance Learning, E-learning tool, WhatsApp, Online Chatting, Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Pandemic issue of COVID19 has poorly affected the whole world activities that includes face-to-face human communications. Every level of educations sector is required to suddenly change into online and distance learning mode. Focusing to tertiary education level, this research was conducted to investigate the usefulness and effectiveness of WhatsApp as the most popular social media medium in community as teaching and learning medium for course computer programming language of C++. In order to measure the usefulness, WhatsApp features are evaluated to accomplish teaching and learning students’ perception. Next, students’ attitude towards learning process were evaluated as learning behavior. The result showed the WhatsApp was convenient for teaching and learning online when all features are fully utilized and improve positive attitudes toward self-learning.

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Published

2021-06-10

How to Cite

Adilah Mohamed Yusoff, S., Kadar, R., Wan Mohamad, W. A., Mydin, A., & Abdullah, M. H. (2021). The Impact of WhatsApp as an Instructional Tool for Online Distance Teaching and Learning (ODL). International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 10(2). Retrieved from https://ijarped.com/index.php/journal/article/view/2171

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): Volume 10, Issue 2 (2021)

Section

Articles