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Papers by Johnnie W F Muwanga-Zake

International Journal of Technology and Management, 2021

The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to mainly test and v... more The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to mainly test and validate understandings based on foreign discourses, and knowledge systems. These rarely commit to the African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. I have studied subjects that are not concomitant with my Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS), and so had to emigrate to find work more suitable to my studies. My mind thus became peripatetic being all along confronted by discourses that challenge my origins and make my IKS look inferior and useless. Possibly, other Black Africans have endured similar challenges. So, there seems to be a valid disquiet about research in Black Africa. Some possible spaces to transform discourses to accommodate Black African paradigms are proposed.

International Journal of Technology and Management, 2022

Higher Education lags far behind other industries in the adoption of computer technology, especia... more Higher Education lags far behind other industries in the adoption of computer technology, especially in Africa due to the digital gap, wrong priorities and inadequate or unimplemented policies. Its desirable that eLearning evolves in concert with the Industrial Revolutions and that some innovations are directed towards solving learning challenges, many of which were illuminated upon by the Covid-19 lockdown. Short of innovations, the digital gap forces Africa to adopt learning into technology. Thus technology becomes the researched problem in Africa. This is exacerbated by the African already formidable challenge in providing learning as a basic human right that an extraordinary effort is required to ‘normalise’ computer technology in educational institutions, in African developing countries such as Uganda.

This paper is a discussion of some activities, suggestions and views relating to Higher Education for what is dubbed the new normal.

International Journal of Technology and Management, 2023

The Tennyson and Rasch Linking Theory was fundamental in the traditional Instructional Design (ID... more The Tennyson and Rasch Linking Theory was fundamental in the traditional Instructional Design (ID) in that ID approached the use of ICT in learning from a needs analysis base, considered learning psychology, and then later found a suitable ICT to sort out the problems. Lately, learning has to cater for the evolution of ICTs, now in the fourth and fifth Industrial Revolutions, and for the ICT natives to whom ICTs are part of their culture, who use ICTs to learn. ID and learning facilitators then ask questions on how to use the ICT effectively in learning. This has led to unprofessional adoption of ICTs in teaching and learning devoid of considerations of learning psychology. The evolution of ICTs forces ID to evolve and has seemingly reached crossroads between considerations of subject content, learning psychology or the curriculum and ICTs to sort learning problems out. Predominantly, ID has to evolve in concert with ICTs and their user demands, with consideration of learning psychology. The digital divide between the haves and not haves exacerbate the complexity of the cross of roads. I argue that ID faces a possibility of their roles being taken over by technologists. ID might end up as profession of evaluators of ICT in learning. Therefore, in this paper, I review the Tennyson and Rasch Linking Theory between ID and learning psychology and re-emphasise a need to include learning psychology in ID in the adoption of ICTs to improve learning outcomes.

A survey carried out during 1998 in rural schools of the South East Region (Butterworth) in the E... more A survey carried out during 1998 in rural schools of the South East Region (Butterworth) in the Eastern Cape Province revealed that science teachers do not seem to know their problems in teaching science. Teachers related their problems to lack of apparatus and laboratories. However, it appeared that lack of conceptual understanding of science and of practical skills prevented teachers from preparing practical approaches in the classrooms. Lack of conceptual understanding could have also been the cause of the teacher's inability to innovate and manipulate apparatus. The call for laboratories also seemed to be caused by lack of knowledge of what is done in a laboratory. Practical approaches to science seemed to be further undermined by the irrelevance of apparatus and science in a rural setting, where few community members and teachers might have never used apparatus or done practical exercises anywhere. It is recommended that an integrated approach towards improving science educ...

Land degradation is a big issue in agro ecosystems in developing, transition economy and develope... more Land degradation is a big issue in agro ecosystems in developing, transition economy and developed countries. This problem affects negatively agriculture productivity and production in rural areas of all countries where most people depend on the agriculture activities to survive and satisfy their needs. Therefore it impacts food security, poverty, livelihood and wellbeing of rural populations. Factors such as poverty, population growth or pressure, climate change, human activities (intensification of agriculture, industrialization and urbanization), poor awareness and lack of institutions and poor governance (poor policies and management) are causing and increasing land degradation and its negatives consequences on agro ecosystems functions and services. Some of these causes are also initiated and increased by land degradation (vicious circle). This emphasis the needs to identifying and understand the real causes of land degradation and explain how some are interlinked to the latter...

Data is being generated at an enormous rate, due to online activities and use of resources relate... more Data is being generated at an enormous rate, due to online activities and use of resources related to computing. To access and handle such enormous amount of data spread, distributed systems is an efficient mechanism. One such widely used distributed file system is Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). HDFS follows a cluster approach in order to store huge amounts of data; it is scalable and works on low commodity. It uses MapReduce framework to perform analysis and carry computations parallel on these large data sets. Hadoop follows the master/slave architecture decoupling system metadata and application data where metadata is stored on dedicated server NameNode and application data on DataNodes, Processing of MapReduce is slow whereas, It is known that accessing data from cache is much faster as compared to disk access. Mutual caching is one such mechanism in which the cache distributed over the clients or dedicated servers or storage devices form a single cache to serve the requests. This mechanism helps in improving the performance, reducing access latency and increasing the throughput. In order to enhance and improve the performance of MapReduce, the thesis proposes solution of new design of HDFS by introducing caching references, Mutual caching along with customize Adaptive Replacement Cache Algorithm. Each of the Data Nodes would have a dedicated Cache Manager to maintain information about its local cache, remote caches and follow cache replacement algorithm. Customize-ARC helps in organizing the cache in a different way as recent, frequent and history of evicted items which is a better cache replacement policy and improves the execution time and performance.

Status of computers and teachers' opinions about the use of computers in a sample of Dinaledi sch... more Status of computers and teachers' opinions about the use of computers in a sample of Dinaledi schools 21 Conclusion from the first level of evaluation: validation of CAA and Zadarh The second level of evaluation THE STRUCTURE OF THIS THESIS PART II THEORETICAL ORIENTATION AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICA 2 8 SOME OF THE SCIENCE METHODS AND PHILOSOPHIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS 28 Why worry about methods and philosophies in science classrooms? Philosophy of science or Nature of Science? Scientific inquiry, processes, and methods Science and culture Science in South African classrooms Conclusion on philosophies of science in South African classrooms TEACHING STRATEGIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN GRADE 10-12 SCIENCE CLASSES 44 Why include learning strategies? Learning strategies Learning strategies in the context of science education in South African classrooms Conclusion on learning strategies-No single theory explains all learning 56 ASSESSMENT 57 2005/03/23 PLAY 70 Play and learning strategies 70 Playing games 71 Play and learning 73 Conclusion on play 77 CONCLUSION-PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENCE CLASSROOMS 78 PART III POSSIBILITIES OF USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION 80 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE CLASSROOMS 81 Solving science education problems using computer technology 81 Instructional design (ID) 82 Learning theories and Instructional Design (ID) 82 Fourth generation ID and microworlds Constructivist ID as a change agent for the teacher-learner relationships Instruction and construction? Application of ID in assessment-Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA) Examples of intercourse between science and ID Implications of learning theory-ID relationship for evaluation Considerations for evaluating ECPs 100 Conclusion-points to note in evaluating ECPs 104 PART IV EVALUATING COMPUTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR CHANGE 105 COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER EDUCATIONAL

American Academic Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, Nov 25, 2019

Electronic Health Records Systems are important Technology that is beneficial to improving the he... more Electronic Health Records Systems are important Technology that is beneficial to improving the health care delivery inline of (i) providing accurate, up to date and complete data, (ii)sharing electronic information between patients and clinicians securely (iii) helping providers to effectively diagnose patients, reduce medical errors and provide safer care (iv) quick access to patient records for more coordinated efficient care (v) improving patient and provider interaction and communication (vi) enabling safer more reliable prescriptions (vii) reduction of costs, reduced paper work, reduced duplication of testing and general improved health. Despite all the benefits provided by Technology, there is little interest and limited adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems by the Health Sector in developing countries to compete in today's market globally geared by new technology. The aim of this paper is to review factors for low adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems in context of developing countries. The factors that can influence the adoption include the need for involvement and participation of all stake holders in the health sector, availability of dedicated users and having a good change management strategy and leadership, effective leadership and effective communication, training staff and time management are key, also evaluation of organizational needs is important for fostering the implementation of electronic health record systems.

American Academic Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, Nov 25, 2019

Electronic information systems are gradually replacing traditional information systems in most pu... more Electronic information systems are gradually replacing traditional information systems in most public and private organisations in developing countries. This is motivated by the wide acceptance of use of information technology at almost all levels of Government institutions and private institutions. No matter the trends in the economy the organisations strive to know the investments in information systems (IS) to determine their success because they are often implemented to solve a particular business need or opportunity. Thus imperative to establish the IS effectiveness for every investment in the IS project given the evolution of information technology. This paper aims at examining the DeLone and MacLean model, 2016 for suitability of assessment electronic information systems success in a developing country context looking at the case of Uganda. Guided by the pragmatic thought and a rare abductive research approach which combines inductive and deductive perspectives were used. It utilized the concurrent transformative research designs for data collection

The purpose of this research paper to indentify the unintentional human insider threats and asses... more The purpose of this research paper to indentify the unintentional human insider threats and assess the various unintentional Human Insider threats mitigation measures currently used in universities in Uganda. It also intends to know the mitigation measures are actually being implemented in the universities in Uganda. The primary data was collected by using survey method. Sampling was all from ICT Staff members and the various heads of Departments who are in charge of handling institutional data. The questionnaires were distributed to 212 respondents from conveniently selected respondents from different Nine (9) Universities in Uganda. Reliability and validity of the constructs tests were carried out and all were found to be above the recommended values and Descriptive Statistics and coefficient of Variation was used to analyze these constructs. The study found out that sharing of secondary storage devices like flash discs, CD, Hard disks, Losing of Secondary storage devices like fla...

Several factors account for the absence of African values in the curricula of Higher Education (H... more Several factors account for the absence of African values in the curricula of Higher Education (HE). Major factors include incapacity to add values to epistemological and ontological frameworks that have mostly been imported into HE. It is the same frameworks that provide employment around which education systems in Africa are designed, mainly to serve the interests and needs of the employers who are ultimately foreign. The frameworks label African values backward and irrelevant to the employers' needs for social economic interests. Thus, a gap between the values in HE and those desirable in local African communities and environments leads to erroneous conceptions of the purposes of HE, and to graduates who hardly fit into African communities. Under-utilization of local resources and unemployment of graduates are thus expected. Africa has to derive and frame its own development for which it should design an education based on African values systems. This does not imply a complete exclusion of foreign values. A way forward is to research values and needs of local African communities and environment, so as to make HE curricula relevant and compatible with African values. Ultimately, local communities would participate in curriculum design and QA.

Narratives among Bantu in Africa are complicated by introductions of Western knowledge such as

Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2008

The proliferations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and an increase in the numb... more The proliferations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and an increase in the number of external students and of the digital youth have put considerable pressure upon university staff to adopt ICT in their pedagogy. However, these challenges that include ICT technical skills and pedagogy require staff to continuously engage in Professional Development (PD), which might require revisions of work agreements. Staff have to change their pedagogical paradigms This paper proposes PD models and suggests that IT specialists and Administrative Assistants should be involved.

This study lists and compares insect herbivores of Senecio inaequidens and of Senecio pterophorus... more This study lists and compares insect herbivores of Senecio inaequidens and of Senecio pterophorus around Butterworth by 18 Tables and 38 Figures. The two plant species are widely distributed around Southern Africa. Samples were taken during a month of each of the four main seasons of the year, which in Butterworth did not show much difference in temperature. The two plant species shared generalist insect herbivores most of which were also on other surrounding plant species. The population of most of the herbivores was affected by the seasons while the two plant species were not seasonal, thus the correlation between insect herbivores and the two plant species was not significant. The heavier, and apparently chemically protected species, Senecio pterophorus, accommodated borers and supported a wider variety of but fewer individual insects. Senecio pterophorus could be having more defences but had more serious herbivores. There were no serious insect herbivores that could control the ...

Narratives among Bantu in Africa are complicated by introductions of Western knowledge such as In... more Narratives among Bantu in Africa are complicated by introductions of Western knowledge such as Information and Communications Technology. Narrative research suffers from and is challenged by the inferiorities due to colonialism and by African academia that rejects African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Narrative research about Information and Communications Technology among Bantu requires a combination of Western methodology in the context of Afrocentric approaches, such as Ubuntu, to yield authentic and valid data. The challenge in introducing Western knowledge such as Information and Communications Technology into Bantu communities is to develop research hybrids that recognise Bantu Indigenous Knowledge Systems and use Western knowledge, with sensitivity to cultural biases. The other challenge is for Indigenous Africans to get involved in serious research to develop their own Information and Communications Technology.

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, 2006

This paper reports on the validation of test items that was necessary to prepare diagnostic items... more This paper reports on the validation of test items that was necessary to prepare diagnostic items, and on the values teachers and learners attached to Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA). The diagnostic potential of CAA was revealed in evaluations, which included teachers and learners. However, the quality of diagnosis and remediation depended upon teachers' capacity to set diagnostic test items particularly in a multiple-choice format, teachers' ability to interpret data produced by CAA, teachers' skills in remedying their classroom as well as learners' problems, the quality of the test items, and the learning as well as the teaching strategies.

A survey carried out during 1998 in rural Grade 7–12 schools in the Eastern Cape revealed that te... more A survey carried out during 1998 in rural Grade 7–12 schools in the Eastern Cape revealed that teachers did not seem to know their problems in teaching science. For example, teachers claim that they do not teach science practically because they do not have apparatus. The survey results suggested that the teachers' problems, such as the inability to teach practically were underpinned by the teacher's lack of understanding of science concepts and processes. The teachers continue to demand science equipment even though there is evidence of unused equipment. Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings. The crisis is further exacerbated by an indication that tertiary institutions produce few science teachers, and that the number of enrolments for Science Education in institutions seems to be dropping. Non Government Organisations (NGOs) are experiencing difficulty in obtaining funding for outr...

I report on benefits from teacher-participant evaluation and mode of introducing educational comp... more I report on benefits from teacher-participant evaluation and mode of introducing educational computer programmes (ECPs) in disadvantaged schools in South Africa. 26 teachers from 23 schools participated in evaluating a biology computer game designed to motivate and ease conceptual understanding. The evaluation comprised teachers training, which simultaneously provided a platform for introducing the ECP into the schools. The paper recommends that an evaluation of ECPs that includes the value system of end-users (through social dialogue); curriculum issues (learning theories in the ECP and those the education authorities recommend, as well as ECP-curriculum integration); the concepts which the ECP presents; and the compatibility of the ECP with school computers, can provide useful methods of introducing ECPs into curricula of disadvantaged schools.

International Journal of Technology and Management, 2021

The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to mainly test and v... more The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to mainly test and validate understandings based on foreign discourses, and knowledge systems. These rarely commit to the African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. I have studied subjects that are not concomitant with my Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS), and so had to emigrate to find work more suitable to my studies. My mind thus became peripatetic being all along confronted by discourses that challenge my origins and make my IKS look inferior and useless. Possibly, other Black Africans have endured similar challenges. So, there seems to be a valid disquiet about research in Black Africa. Some possible spaces to transform discourses to accommodate Black African paradigms are proposed.

International Journal of Technology and Management, 2022

Higher Education lags far behind other industries in the adoption of computer technology, especia... more Higher Education lags far behind other industries in the adoption of computer technology, especially in Africa due to the digital gap, wrong priorities and inadequate or unimplemented policies. Its desirable that eLearning evolves in concert with the Industrial Revolutions and that some innovations are directed towards solving learning challenges, many of which were illuminated upon by the Covid-19 lockdown. Short of innovations, the digital gap forces Africa to adopt learning into technology. Thus technology becomes the researched problem in Africa. This is exacerbated by the African already formidable challenge in providing learning as a basic human right that an extraordinary effort is required to ‘normalise’ computer technology in educational institutions, in African developing countries such as Uganda.

This paper is a discussion of some activities, suggestions and views relating to Higher Education for what is dubbed the new normal.

International Journal of Technology and Management, 2023

The Tennyson and Rasch Linking Theory was fundamental in the traditional Instructional Design (ID... more The Tennyson and Rasch Linking Theory was fundamental in the traditional Instructional Design (ID) in that ID approached the use of ICT in learning from a needs analysis base, considered learning psychology, and then later found a suitable ICT to sort out the problems. Lately, learning has to cater for the evolution of ICTs, now in the fourth and fifth Industrial Revolutions, and for the ICT natives to whom ICTs are part of their culture, who use ICTs to learn. ID and learning facilitators then ask questions on how to use the ICT effectively in learning. This has led to unprofessional adoption of ICTs in teaching and learning devoid of considerations of learning psychology. The evolution of ICTs forces ID to evolve and has seemingly reached crossroads between considerations of subject content, learning psychology or the curriculum and ICTs to sort learning problems out. Predominantly, ID has to evolve in concert with ICTs and their user demands, with consideration of learning psychology. The digital divide between the haves and not haves exacerbate the complexity of the cross of roads. I argue that ID faces a possibility of their roles being taken over by technologists. ID might end up as profession of evaluators of ICT in learning. Therefore, in this paper, I review the Tennyson and Rasch Linking Theory between ID and learning psychology and re-emphasise a need to include learning psychology in ID in the adoption of ICTs to improve learning outcomes.

A survey carried out during 1998 in rural schools of the South East Region (Butterworth) in the E... more A survey carried out during 1998 in rural schools of the South East Region (Butterworth) in the Eastern Cape Province revealed that science teachers do not seem to know their problems in teaching science. Teachers related their problems to lack of apparatus and laboratories. However, it appeared that lack of conceptual understanding of science and of practical skills prevented teachers from preparing practical approaches in the classrooms. Lack of conceptual understanding could have also been the cause of the teacher's inability to innovate and manipulate apparatus. The call for laboratories also seemed to be caused by lack of knowledge of what is done in a laboratory. Practical approaches to science seemed to be further undermined by the irrelevance of apparatus and science in a rural setting, where few community members and teachers might have never used apparatus or done practical exercises anywhere. It is recommended that an integrated approach towards improving science educ...

Land degradation is a big issue in agro ecosystems in developing, transition economy and develope... more Land degradation is a big issue in agro ecosystems in developing, transition economy and developed countries. This problem affects negatively agriculture productivity and production in rural areas of all countries where most people depend on the agriculture activities to survive and satisfy their needs. Therefore it impacts food security, poverty, livelihood and wellbeing of rural populations. Factors such as poverty, population growth or pressure, climate change, human activities (intensification of agriculture, industrialization and urbanization), poor awareness and lack of institutions and poor governance (poor policies and management) are causing and increasing land degradation and its negatives consequences on agro ecosystems functions and services. Some of these causes are also initiated and increased by land degradation (vicious circle). This emphasis the needs to identifying and understand the real causes of land degradation and explain how some are interlinked to the latter...

Data is being generated at an enormous rate, due to online activities and use of resources relate... more Data is being generated at an enormous rate, due to online activities and use of resources related to computing. To access and handle such enormous amount of data spread, distributed systems is an efficient mechanism. One such widely used distributed file system is Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). HDFS follows a cluster approach in order to store huge amounts of data; it is scalable and works on low commodity. It uses MapReduce framework to perform analysis and carry computations parallel on these large data sets. Hadoop follows the master/slave architecture decoupling system metadata and application data where metadata is stored on dedicated server NameNode and application data on DataNodes, Processing of MapReduce is slow whereas, It is known that accessing data from cache is much faster as compared to disk access. Mutual caching is one such mechanism in which the cache distributed over the clients or dedicated servers or storage devices form a single cache to serve the requests. This mechanism helps in improving the performance, reducing access latency and increasing the throughput. In order to enhance and improve the performance of MapReduce, the thesis proposes solution of new design of HDFS by introducing caching references, Mutual caching along with customize Adaptive Replacement Cache Algorithm. Each of the Data Nodes would have a dedicated Cache Manager to maintain information about its local cache, remote caches and follow cache replacement algorithm. Customize-ARC helps in organizing the cache in a different way as recent, frequent and history of evicted items which is a better cache replacement policy and improves the execution time and performance.

Status of computers and teachers' opinions about the use of computers in a sample of Dinaledi sch... more Status of computers and teachers' opinions about the use of computers in a sample of Dinaledi schools 21 Conclusion from the first level of evaluation: validation of CAA and Zadarh The second level of evaluation THE STRUCTURE OF THIS THESIS PART II THEORETICAL ORIENTATION AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICA 2 8 SOME OF THE SCIENCE METHODS AND PHILOSOPHIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS 28 Why worry about methods and philosophies in science classrooms? Philosophy of science or Nature of Science? Scientific inquiry, processes, and methods Science and culture Science in South African classrooms Conclusion on philosophies of science in South African classrooms TEACHING STRATEGIES IN SOUTH AFRICAN GRADE 10-12 SCIENCE CLASSES 44 Why include learning strategies? Learning strategies Learning strategies in the context of science education in South African classrooms Conclusion on learning strategies-No single theory explains all learning 56 ASSESSMENT 57 2005/03/23 PLAY 70 Play and learning strategies 70 Playing games 71 Play and learning 73 Conclusion on play 77 CONCLUSION-PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCIENCE CLASSROOMS 78 PART III POSSIBILITIES OF USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION 80 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE CLASSROOMS 81 Solving science education problems using computer technology 81 Instructional design (ID) 82 Learning theories and Instructional Design (ID) 82 Fourth generation ID and microworlds Constructivist ID as a change agent for the teacher-learner relationships Instruction and construction? Application of ID in assessment-Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA) Examples of intercourse between science and ID Implications of learning theory-ID relationship for evaluation Considerations for evaluating ECPs 100 Conclusion-points to note in evaluating ECPs 104 PART IV EVALUATING COMPUTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR CHANGE 105 COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER EDUCATIONAL

American Academic Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, Nov 25, 2019

Electronic Health Records Systems are important Technology that is beneficial to improving the he... more Electronic Health Records Systems are important Technology that is beneficial to improving the health care delivery inline of (i) providing accurate, up to date and complete data, (ii)sharing electronic information between patients and clinicians securely (iii) helping providers to effectively diagnose patients, reduce medical errors and provide safer care (iv) quick access to patient records for more coordinated efficient care (v) improving patient and provider interaction and communication (vi) enabling safer more reliable prescriptions (vii) reduction of costs, reduced paper work, reduced duplication of testing and general improved health. Despite all the benefits provided by Technology, there is little interest and limited adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems by the Health Sector in developing countries to compete in today's market globally geared by new technology. The aim of this paper is to review factors for low adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems in context of developing countries. The factors that can influence the adoption include the need for involvement and participation of all stake holders in the health sector, availability of dedicated users and having a good change management strategy and leadership, effective leadership and effective communication, training staff and time management are key, also evaluation of organizational needs is important for fostering the implementation of electronic health record systems.

American Academic Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, Nov 25, 2019

Electronic information systems are gradually replacing traditional information systems in most pu... more Electronic information systems are gradually replacing traditional information systems in most public and private organisations in developing countries. This is motivated by the wide acceptance of use of information technology at almost all levels of Government institutions and private institutions. No matter the trends in the economy the organisations strive to know the investments in information systems (IS) to determine their success because they are often implemented to solve a particular business need or opportunity. Thus imperative to establish the IS effectiveness for every investment in the IS project given the evolution of information technology. This paper aims at examining the DeLone and MacLean model, 2016 for suitability of assessment electronic information systems success in a developing country context looking at the case of Uganda. Guided by the pragmatic thought and a rare abductive research approach which combines inductive and deductive perspectives were used. It utilized the concurrent transformative research designs for data collection

The purpose of this research paper to indentify the unintentional human insider threats and asses... more The purpose of this research paper to indentify the unintentional human insider threats and assess the various unintentional Human Insider threats mitigation measures currently used in universities in Uganda. It also intends to know the mitigation measures are actually being implemented in the universities in Uganda. The primary data was collected by using survey method. Sampling was all from ICT Staff members and the various heads of Departments who are in charge of handling institutional data. The questionnaires were distributed to 212 respondents from conveniently selected respondents from different Nine (9) Universities in Uganda. Reliability and validity of the constructs tests were carried out and all were found to be above the recommended values and Descriptive Statistics and coefficient of Variation was used to analyze these constructs. The study found out that sharing of secondary storage devices like flash discs, CD, Hard disks, Losing of Secondary storage devices like fla...

Several factors account for the absence of African values in the curricula of Higher Education (H... more Several factors account for the absence of African values in the curricula of Higher Education (HE). Major factors include incapacity to add values to epistemological and ontological frameworks that have mostly been imported into HE. It is the same frameworks that provide employment around which education systems in Africa are designed, mainly to serve the interests and needs of the employers who are ultimately foreign. The frameworks label African values backward and irrelevant to the employers' needs for social economic interests. Thus, a gap between the values in HE and those desirable in local African communities and environments leads to erroneous conceptions of the purposes of HE, and to graduates who hardly fit into African communities. Under-utilization of local resources and unemployment of graduates are thus expected. Africa has to derive and frame its own development for which it should design an education based on African values systems. This does not imply a complete exclusion of foreign values. A way forward is to research values and needs of local African communities and environment, so as to make HE curricula relevant and compatible with African values. Ultimately, local communities would participate in curriculum design and QA.

Narratives among Bantu in Africa are complicated by introductions of Western knowledge such as

Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2008

The proliferations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and an increase in the numb... more The proliferations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and an increase in the number of external students and of the digital youth have put considerable pressure upon university staff to adopt ICT in their pedagogy. However, these challenges that include ICT technical skills and pedagogy require staff to continuously engage in Professional Development (PD), which might require revisions of work agreements. Staff have to change their pedagogical paradigms This paper proposes PD models and suggests that IT specialists and Administrative Assistants should be involved.

This study lists and compares insect herbivores of Senecio inaequidens and of Senecio pterophorus... more This study lists and compares insect herbivores of Senecio inaequidens and of Senecio pterophorus around Butterworth by 18 Tables and 38 Figures. The two plant species are widely distributed around Southern Africa. Samples were taken during a month of each of the four main seasons of the year, which in Butterworth did not show much difference in temperature. The two plant species shared generalist insect herbivores most of which were also on other surrounding plant species. The population of most of the herbivores was affected by the seasons while the two plant species were not seasonal, thus the correlation between insect herbivores and the two plant species was not significant. The heavier, and apparently chemically protected species, Senecio pterophorus, accommodated borers and supported a wider variety of but fewer individual insects. Senecio pterophorus could be having more defences but had more serious herbivores. There were no serious insect herbivores that could control the ...

Narratives among Bantu in Africa are complicated by introductions of Western knowledge such as In... more Narratives among Bantu in Africa are complicated by introductions of Western knowledge such as Information and Communications Technology. Narrative research suffers from and is challenged by the inferiorities due to colonialism and by African academia that rejects African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Narrative research about Information and Communications Technology among Bantu requires a combination of Western methodology in the context of Afrocentric approaches, such as Ubuntu, to yield authentic and valid data. The challenge in introducing Western knowledge such as Information and Communications Technology into Bantu communities is to develop research hybrids that recognise Bantu Indigenous Knowledge Systems and use Western knowledge, with sensitivity to cultural biases. The other challenge is for Indigenous Africans to get involved in serious research to develop their own Information and Communications Technology.

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, 2006

This paper reports on the validation of test items that was necessary to prepare diagnostic items... more This paper reports on the validation of test items that was necessary to prepare diagnostic items, and on the values teachers and learners attached to Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA). The diagnostic potential of CAA was revealed in evaluations, which included teachers and learners. However, the quality of diagnosis and remediation depended upon teachers' capacity to set diagnostic test items particularly in a multiple-choice format, teachers' ability to interpret data produced by CAA, teachers' skills in remedying their classroom as well as learners' problems, the quality of the test items, and the learning as well as the teaching strategies.

A survey carried out during 1998 in rural Grade 7–12 schools in the Eastern Cape revealed that te... more A survey carried out during 1998 in rural Grade 7–12 schools in the Eastern Cape revealed that teachers did not seem to know their problems in teaching science. For example, teachers claim that they do not teach science practically because they do not have apparatus. The survey results suggested that the teachers' problems, such as the inability to teach practically were underpinned by the teacher's lack of understanding of science concepts and processes. The teachers continue to demand science equipment even though there is evidence of unused equipment. Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings. The crisis is further exacerbated by an indication that tertiary institutions produce few science teachers, and that the number of enrolments for Science Education in institutions seems to be dropping. Non Government Organisations (NGOs) are experiencing difficulty in obtaining funding for outr...

I report on benefits from teacher-participant evaluation and mode of introducing educational comp... more I report on benefits from teacher-participant evaluation and mode of introducing educational computer programmes (ECPs) in disadvantaged schools in South Africa. 26 teachers from 23 schools participated in evaluating a biology computer game designed to motivate and ease conceptual understanding. The evaluation comprised teachers training, which simultaneously provided a platform for introducing the ECP into the schools. The paper recommends that an evaluation of ECPs that includes the value system of end-users (through social dialogue); curriculum issues (learning theories in the ECP and those the education authorities recommend, as well as ECP-curriculum integration); the concepts which the ECP presents; and the compatibility of the ECP with school computers, can provide useful methods of introducing ECPs into curricula of disadvantaged schools.

The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to test and validate... more The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to test and validate foreign understandings that rarely commit to the African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. I have studied subjects that do not appear in my culture, and so had to emigrate to find work suitable to my studies. My mind thus became peripatetic being all along confronted by discourses that challenge my origins. Possibly, other Black Africans have endured similar challenges. So, there seems to be a valid disquiet about research in Black Africa. Some possible spaces to transform discourses to accommodate Black African paradigms are proposed.