Means to Support the Ends: Forums that Escape the Official Gaze in the Educational Institutions

Social networking apps like WhatsApp are very useful for the learning process as they enable the students to experience a new learning environment during and after the class. Specifically, WhatsApp has an amazing feature to create private groups for bounding the participant. The use of WhatsApp on university campuses enables students to be in touch with study updates. By using WhatsApp, students can contact their class fellows at any time and share data in text, image, video and audio formats. Students can help each other to complete course work including assignments, presentations, and group projects. WhatsApp makes communication easy between students to students and students to teachers. By using WhatsApp's, friendly and familiar interface teachers can run their lectures online and students can achieve their learning goals. Motivated by WhatsApp feature set, the main purpose of this research is to explore the learning outcomes achieved by students when using WhatsApp in a class group chats