Alfabetización académica a través de WhatsApp: Estudio con doctorandos de educación

The use of social networks has become a valuable tool for the dynamization of educational processes. In this sense, the objectives of this article are to analyze the pedagogical uses of WhatsApp in the development of a didactic sequence in a doctoral seminar and to evaluate the experience of applying this platform. The study was based on academic literacy, genre pedagogy and didactic sequence. Methodologically, it is a qualitative study. A field diary was kept by the course instructor: The participants were nine (9) doctoral students, and the study proceeded through the following steps: initiation, creation, communication, execution and evaluation. Among the results of the study are that the implementation of WhatsApp in doctoral courses enables the treatment of disciplinary knowledge; students acquire greater protagonism and autonomy; interpersonal relationships are favored; reading, writing and oral skills are developed, and evaluation and feedback are diversified.