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Notifications on the Go: The Impact of Using the Blackboard
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The focus of this study was to evaluate the use of the Blackboard™ App by students in traditional and online learning environments. The participants in this study were students in a first-year college orientation course, and undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in educational technology (EDT) courses, all at a 4-year public university in the Midwest. The orientation course is a traditional seated class with the Blackboard Learn™ learning management system supplementing the face-to-face instruction; the graduate and undergraduate EDT courses are all fully online, taught through Blackboard Learn. The study compared whether students prefer the Blackboard App over the use of email for communicating with their instructors. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the survey response data. Students’ positive responses concerning the Blackboard app and their preference for email were summarized and discussed.
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Students prefer mobile notifications over email as a notification medium.
“Moreover, students have been found to exhibit a preference for mobile notifications over email as a notification medium (Chang & Farha, 2021).”
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The Discussion and Conclusion reports the opposite preference: about 68% of participants preferred email over the Blackboard App for receiving course information. The Results for Research Questions likewise reports that only 31% agreed they preferred app messages to email. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“The utilization of mobile devices for the dissemination of notifications has been shown to elicit a more prompt response from students, as it does not necessitate the use of a computer (Chang & Farha, 2021).”
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- Authors
- Chang, C.-W., & Farha, N.
- Affiliations
- Missouri State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Farha, Nicholas
- ORCID
- Chang, Ching-Wen
- Venue
- International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1551-2576 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4236900414
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2
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- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Mobile Learning in Education
- Social Sciences › Education › Online and Blended Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Technology-Enhanced Education Studies
- Keywords
- mobile learning, virtual learning environments, student preferences, email communication, instructor-student communication, online learning, blended learning, educational technology course
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