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Patient Rambe; Mucha Mkono; Lawrence Meda – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study employs an Afro-centric framework of Digital "Unhu" (i.e. digital humanism) and netnographic accounts of supervisor-supervisee interactions to investigate Mobile Instant Messaging mediated interaction as a platform for honing students' career management competencies. While many existing studies foreground Western…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
van Wyk, Marinus Daniel; Waghid, Zayd – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The study's main aim is to explore the preparedness of a sampled group of South African pre-service teachers at a Higher Education Institution (HEI) to teach adequately in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4iR) classroom. The study employed a case study research design to ascertain the level of preparedness of pre-service teachers (n = 22) to use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Readiness, Information Technology
Mouronte-López, Mary Luz; Ceres, Juana Savall; Columbrans, Aina Mora – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This paper applies Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as well as data analysis to gain a better understanding of the existing perception on the education system. 45,278 tweets were downloaded and processed. Using a lexicon-based approach, examining the most frequently used words, and estimating similarities between terms, we detected…
Descriptors: Social Media, Attitudes, Education, Low Income Groups
Fouche, Ilse; Andrews, Grant – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in many countries moving teaching and learning online. South Africa is a country with major inequalities in terms of access to electricity, internet and information technologies, which have created considerable problems for online learning at institutions of higher learning in the country. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Lakay, Denise; Iyamu, Tiko – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Despite the numerous support systems, academic performances in many South African higher institutions continue to experience challenges while some are declining in throughputs. Some of the support mechanisms seem to be black boxed, notwithstanding the deteriorating situation. Thus, there is "prima facie" evidence that the factors that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Robotics, Automation, Technology Uses in Education
Iyamu, Tiko; Nunu, Khaya – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
In the context of South Africa, what we do know is that huge amount of healthcare data does exist and that they are consciously and unconsciously scattered in bits and pieces across facilities within the country. This has directly or indirectly resulted to underutilisation of data, which affects service delivery to the community. For example, many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Management, Health Services, Guidelines
Mpungose, Cedric Bheki – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The mandatory phasing in of the Moodle learning environment within South African universities has met with a variety of uptake challenges. Specifically, Moodle was officially introduced without clear exposition of the underpinning theory, training, and implementation framework for its adoption. This study reports on a qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Learning, Universities, College Faculty
Mpungose, Cedric Bheki – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Student teachers' knowledge during teaching practice becomes the contested phenomenon in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Inadequate knowledge negatively impacts the existing South African curriculum and assessment policy statement (CAPS) subjects, despite the attempt at introducing the new 4IR curriculum into schools.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Knowledge Level, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Khoza, Simon Bheki; Biyela, Audrey Thabile – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Decolonising students' knowledge of technology, pedagogy, and mathematics content is important because it helps students understand their learning needs. Decolonisation is a process of critiquing and renewing the curriculum. Learning needs are circumstances that demand individuals' actions in order to address professional, personal, and/or social…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, College Freshmen, Mathematics Education
Olugbara, C. T.; Imenda, S. N.; Olugbara, O. O.; Khuzwayo, H. B. – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This study investigated moderating effect of factors of "innovation consciousness" and "quality consciousness" on relationship between intention and behaviour in the context of e-learning integration. Previous authors have suggested a deeper theoretical examination of conditions under which intention may or may not directly…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technology Integration, Intention, Educational Innovation
Mpungose, Cedric Bheki – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
First-year students are compelled by South African universities to use the Moodle e-learning management platform. Recent studies outline that this creates challenges during the learning process, since students struggle to use Moodle owing to their disadvantaged school background; however, they are familiar with and good at using the WhatsApp…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Preferences
Gelderblom, Helene; Matthee, Machdel; Hattingh, Marié; Weilbach, Lizette – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
E-textbooks are often considered as having several advantages over printed textbooks. However, research shows conflicting results regarding school learners' satisfaction with e-textbooks. In South Africa a particular e-book platform, EduBook for e-textbooks, is currently used in 170 schools across the country. In this study the satisfaction and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intention, Academic Persistence, Textbooks
Tungela, Nomawethu; Iyamu, Tiko – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The South African government strives to increase citizens' participation in economic, political, social and trade activities through online connectivity, by providing free Wi-Fi for previously disadvantage, peri-urban communities. This was in an attempt to contribute and promote poverty alleviation, growth and economic transformation among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Educational Technology
van Wyk, Mari; van Ryneveld, Linda – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Note-taking is one of the more common and ever-present learning activities that form an important part of all students' daily lives. The potential of using technology to enhance note-taking activities has recently come under the spotlight. However, while mobile technologies may be applauded for their mobility and the value they can add to…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Influence of Technology, Notetaking
Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The subject of computer science (CS) and computer science education (CSE) has relatively recently arisen as a subject for inclusion within the compulsory school curriculum. Up to this present time, a major focus of technologies in the school curriculum has in many countries been on applications of existing technologies into subject practice (both…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Integrated Curriculum, Required Courses, Educational Policy