Mobile learning is a platform that has emerged today for many people to learn via smartphones. With the prevalence of the use of smartphones in various institutions, it has become an attractive and immediate tool for inclusion in teaching and learning programs. Here, in this study, we used one of the WhatsApp mobile communication applications to make one of the school programs with parents to improve understanding of child development in school. Objective: To determine parents' perceptions of learning through WhatsApp as an M-learning tool to understand the understanding of child development. Method: This research uses descriptive qualitative using survey method and only uses one variable. The instrument uses questionnaires designed in google form forms and entered into groups with requests for everyone to send their responses. Responses are filled in Google spreadsheets and then analyzed for a reported total percentage. The final open question is analyzed qualitatively. Results: Most parents like M-learning via WhatsApp. There is immediate acceptance for the implementation of the school program through the WhatsApp group. Conclusion: A positive attitude towards M-learning among medical students is very promising to change the E-learning paradigm to M- learning. With the rapid advancement of mobile technology and the availability of smartphones in everyone, we conclude that there is a large scope for this methodology that will be used to learn to improve understanding of child development.

27/11/2018

978-602-53524-0-9

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