ABSTRACT This study was concerned with the challenges facing secondary schools‟ teachers and students in the use of instructional technologies. The rationale was based on the view that properly designed, learning materials inspired by instructional technology and delivered by technology add value to a teaching environment on which contact hours are limited. This is because the curriculum needs academic standards and the development of digital age skills for the 21st century learners. The li...
ABSTRACT The teaching of Business Studies, overtime has been recording below average performance in the national examinations all over the world, Kenya inclusive. Studies carried out in some other part of the world clearly document the reasons for this and the measures that have been undertaken to alleviate this problem. This study sought to investigate the pedagogical challenges facing the teaching of Business Studies subject and their impact on students’ achievements in national exa...
ABSTRACT Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become the fundamental pillars of the modern society today. They have brought along a lot of changes, many of them deep-seated, in almost all the aspects of societal functions and services. Just like any other field, the field of education has been greatly influenced by advancement in technology. Ultimately this has led to changes in teaching, learning and research. Despite the potential that ICTs have in enabling and enhancing a tea...
ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is beginning to be recognised as one of the major instructional components especially in science subjects. This study sought to investigate the status of ICT in the teaching and learning of physics in secondary schools. It investigated: perception of teachers and students towards the use of ICT; physics teachers’ ICT competence; access to computers by both teachers and learners; teaching experience; and management’s and technical sup...
ABSTRACT The Electric Power and Energy Systems (EPES) group forms a core research area of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. Our research cluster is motivated by the need to address the issues related to the design and operation of modern, “smarter”, greener electric power grids. In addition, renewed interest in hybrid--‐electric distributed systems and home automation calls for advances in the area of energy conversion and power electronics. The EPES research c...
The use of technology in communication has proliferated in the last decade, more so with the advancement of mobile technology which has made information dissemination and reception more instantaneous. With the advancement in mobile communication technology, platforms have come up and have been adopted by many who find them appealing. One of these platforms is WhatsApp, whose adoption rate has enormously grown from its inception in 2009, with the current number of users surpassing 1 billion in...
ABSTRACT This research looks at the prison community as a discourse community. The study also provides a sociolinguistic analysis of the language used at Whawha Medium Offenders Prison. Through the analysis of language the study also explores certain aspects of prison life at Whawha prison complex. The study uses the ‘sociolinguistics theory’. The research examines Whawha Prison Complex as a discourse community, investigates how the inmates at Whawha Prison Complex use language in a pecul...
ABSTRACT The research focused into the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based technologies in the teaching and learning at Early Childhood Education (ECE) level settings in the context of the new curriculum in Bulawayo Urban schools. The study was conducted at Riverside Stimulation Centre in Imbizo District in Bulawayo Metropolitan Province. Ten ECE teachers formed the sample. Questionnaires were used to gather information from teachers. Focus groups interviews were us...
Abstract The study assessed the challenges faced by students in using Information Communication Technology (ICT) at primary level. The research was carried out in Cluster five of Glenview Mufakose District in Harare. In order to get an insight on the challenges, different authorities were reviewed. The descriptive survey design was adopted in this study. Probability and non-probability sampling techniques were employed in order to select participants in this research. Five teachers, twenty pu...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess Rural-ICT Service Providers (RISP) and agropastoralists interface. Specifically, the study aimed to get a better understanding of structures and processes at the interface and their implications for sustainable agropastoral livelihoods. The study was undertaken in Morogoro and Mwanza Regions where two districts with RISP were purposively chosen. The study adopted a combination of cross-sectional and case study designs. Purposive and random samp...
ABSTRACT Teachers‟ Professional Development refers to a variety of activities both formal and informal, which is designed for a personal and professional growth for teachers. The advancement of technology has been recognized to play a valuable role in developing and improving the teaching and learning situations. This study, aims at analyzing the use of ICT in Teachers‟ professional among the Tanzanian Secondary School teachers. Data used in this study, were collected through a field data...
ABSTRACT In this project work, a hybrid cloud system using StackOps Distro Community Edition was designed and implemented. The Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri was used as a case study. This is essential as there is greater need for readily available and on-the-go Information and Communication Technology services. Ubiquitous access to data, files, documents, project work and the like are vital in all spheres of life, and especia...
One of the fundamental factors that determine the success or failure of a behavioural change campaign is the nature of communication strategies adopted by the change agent. Nigeria has been declared a polio free nation, but scholarly attention has not been given to the role played by communication strategies in the success of polio immunisation and eradication projects in Northern Nigeria. This study, therefore, investigated the communication strategies used in polio immunisation campaig...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the news consumption patterns of University of Ghana students. Specifically, it was to ascertain whether the advent of the internet was discouraging students from accessing the traditional media. Also in consideration were the news sources of students and their motivations for accessing those news media. A survey was employed to gather the required data. A sample of 148 was drawn from Commonwealth Hall, Volta Hall and Legon Hall. Among the respondents, t...
ABSTRACT The media is often referred to as the mirror of society, reflecting events and issues that occur in society. This study examined the nature of coverage the press in Ghana gave to cybercrime issues through a content analysis of sampled editions of the Daily Graphic and the Daily Guide in 2011. The study set out to examine the view that the structure of ownership of a medium determines the content it turns out. Specifically, it tested the view that a state-owned newspaper such as the D...