Using Mobile-based Social Media to Facilitate Interaction and Build Communities through the lens of Ubuntu in Distance Education

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dc.contributor.authorMakoe, Mpine
dc.contributor.authorShandu, Thulile P
dc.coverage.placeNameSouth Africaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-19T23:38:55Z
dc.date.available2019-07-19T23:38:55Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how WhatsApp can be used to build learning communities and facilitate interaction, through the lens of Ubuntu – an African concept of humanness, which means that an individual person owes his or her existence to the existence of others. The Afrocentric concept of Ubuntu and interaction work concomitantly towards the realisation of vocabulary teaching and learning within distance education. Through this study, students were encouraged to work together through a mobile-based social network to learn English vocabulary. Ubuntu was used as a framework to analyse the WhatsApp chats to find salient themes relating to building communities and enhancing interaction. The key elements of Ubuntu grounded the findings and demonstrated how technology can be used to bridge the interaction distance and how Ubuntu principles are articulated in the communities of learning. This paper illustrates how Ubuntu is manifested in a local context, with principles that can be applied globally to enhance collaboration.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v6i2.357
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/3207
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCommonwealth of Learning (COL)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Learning for Development;vol. 6, no. 2
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/en_US
dc.source.urihttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/357en_US
dc.subjectDistance Educationen_US
dc.subjectInformation and Communication Technology (ICT)en_US
dc.titleUsing Mobile-based Social Media to Facilitate Interaction and Build Communities through the lens of Ubuntu in Distance Educationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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