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Instant Messaging For Enquiry-Based Learning And Peer Learning Communities, Kin Ho, Benson Hung, Kin Ming Wong
Instant Messaging For Enquiry-Based Learning And Peer Learning Communities, Kin Ho, Benson Hung, Kin Ming Wong
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Instant Messaging (IM) tools such as Telegram may effectively be used to engage students in their learning. This paper explored how IM can enhance traditional teaching and learning in higher education by creating additional informal learning spaces, rather to disturb the existing classroom practices. There are three objectives that this paper was expected to achieve:- • To measure the student Response rate in using IM for the assessment of effectiveness in enquiry-based learning; • To evaluate the impact of IM on peer-to-peer participation through the analysis of dialogues among the learning communities; and • To discuss the essentials of successful …