Sixteenth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society

Abstract

This poster session presents the current research trends, insights, and recommendations for use of instant messaging and other synchronous communications within asynchronous doctoral mobile learning (M-Learning) communities to foster engagement and disrupt voice dispossession among underrepresented doctoral students. Voice dispossession and the resulting attributional accommodations doctoral students often make is often overlooked in the scholarship of doctoral education. This review of trends is specific to the pedagogical implications for the dichotomous past views for asynchronous versus synchronous communication within online doctoral education settings to explore marginalized doctoral student voices and de-center experiences/interests of dominant voices with intentionality. Current research has also noted this social-relational aspects of synchronous communications within M-Learning is also limited and warrants further inquiry as adoption of instant messaging and other synchronous communications within M-Learning continue and may disrupt attributional accommodation and/or nonuse.