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Mobile instant messaging for professional learning: Educators' perspectives on and uses of Voxer

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Abstract Voxer is a messaging tool that allows for voice, text, image, and video communication. To explore Voxer's role in education, we surveyed 240 educators. Heutagogy served as the theoretical… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Voxer is a messaging tool that allows for voice, text, image, and video communication. To explore Voxer's role in education, we surveyed 240 educators. Heutagogy served as the theoretical framework for the study. Results indicated that participants used Voxer to communicate with educators from diverse roles and from beyond their schools, districts, and regions. Respondents employed Voxer more for professional learning than with students and/or families. The majority of respondents reported that what they learned through Voxer had impacted their practice as educators. We discuss implications of our findings for educators in an era of ubiquitous social media.

Keywords: learning educators; instant messaging; learning; mobile instant; messaging professional; professional learning

Journal Title: Teaching and Teacher Education
Year Published: 2017

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