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Advancing AI education: Assessing Kenyan in-service teachers' preparedness for integrating artificial intelligence in competence-based curriculum
(Elsevier, 2024-05-01)With the advancement of technology, emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) have also been growing rapidly and becoming more common than ever before. Kenya has taken tremendous steps in adopting the use of ... -
Teacher’s views on the relevance of secondary school English curriculum: implications for policy, practice and theory
(oapub, 2024)The English curriculum in schools in Kenya is prepared by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). This institute mainly relies on input from curriculum experts at the national level, denying classroom ... -
Turnitin: When online learning and cultural values intersect: Indonesian EFL students’ voices
(Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc., 2022-09-24)During the COVID-19 pandemic, all lecturers had to replace their physical classroom teaching mode with online learning, albeit with challenges experienced by students and lecturers. Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural dimensions ... -
Metaphorical expressions for successful doctoral study abroad
(Englisia: Journal of Language, Education, and Humanities, 2023-10-11)Timely positive feedback to students pursuing a Ph. D. program motivates completion. Drawing upon Skinner's Reinforcement theory and Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), this study aimed at uncovering ... -
Towards a Competency Based Curriculum: A Pedagogic Perspective
(Journal of Technology & Socio-Economic Development, 2022)Education remains the powerful tool to engender competencies in the learners to make them adaptable to the context of work, personal and professional development. The competencies are significant for achieving sustainable ... -
Teacher Education Reforms in Kenya: The Past, the Present, and Mapping the Future
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-08-10)Teacher education in Kenya was formally started in mid-nineteenth century by European Christian missionaries. The urge to establish teacher education programs at the time was to address the shortage of teachers due to the ... -
The Role of Teaching Christian Religious Education to the Development of Critical Thinking Amongst Kenyan Secondary School Students in Kisumu East District, Kenya
(International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 2012)Previous research has consistently reported that Kenyan students’ moral standing and general conduct in the wider society reflects incompetence in critical thinking. The scenario in which irrational behavior has dominated ... -
Assessing Moral Education in Kenyan Secondary Schools
(International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2021)Previous research has consistently reported that Kenyan students’ moral standing and general conduct in the wider society reflects incompetence in moral insights. The scenario in which immoral behavior has dominated ... -
Mainstreaming Gender and Inclusion in Distance Learning Resources: A Case Study
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Studies have shown that gender imbalances and biased gender representations are common in materials used in educational systems throughout the world. Learning resources for Open and Distance Learning programmes are, ... -
Building individual and community resilience through Open Education Resources for health literacy education in sub-Saharan Africa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Health literacy is the ability of individuals to understand health information and to make informed health decisions. As part of a larger project, we completed a scoping review to consider the question “To what extent ... -
Cybersecurity in Online Learning: Innovations for Teacher Training and Empowerment
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022)Recent technological advances in teaching and learning provide dynamic tools required to meet the educational needs of the digital era. However, teachers and other educators are increasingly experiencing cyber threats ... -
When online learning and cultural values intersect: Indonesian EFL students' voices
(Institutes for Educational Research in NSW, SA and WA, 2022)During the COVID-19 pandemic, all lecturers had to replace their physical classroom teaching mode with online learning, albeit with challenges experienced by students and lecturers. Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural dimensions ... -
Influence of competency level of teachers in integration of ICT in teaching English subject in secondary schools in Kenya
(IJARKE Humanities & Social Sciences Journal, 2020)This paper is part of research on ICT integration and its contribution to the teaching of English in Kisumu County Kenya. ICT integration just like other innovations goes through stages as it develops to efficacy. ICT ... -
Supporting Teachers Moving Online, Using a MOOC, during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
(Commonwealth of Learning. 4710 Kingsway Suite 2500, Burnaby, BC V5H 4M2 Canada, 2021)Following campus closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Ministries of Education around the world requested teachers to move their teaching online. This case study reflects on how the Commonwealth of Learning responded ... -
Policy Brief: Leveraging MOOCs for Teacher Development in Low-Income Countries and Disadvantaged Regions
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021)This policy brief looks at open digital distance learning and the potential of massive open online courses to deliver and support teacher development in low-income countries and disadvantaged regions. It addresses the ... -
Open educational resources, technology-enabled teacher learning and social justice
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter addresses two questions: What is the role of teacher education in increasing access to, and participation in, education, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa? and How can digital technologies (DTs), such as the ... -
Re-imagining teacher education for a post-pandemic future
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021)To help Commonwealth governments and institutions use technologies to improve and expand learning for sustainable development -
Pacific Partnership for Open, Flexible and Distance Learning: Two Case Studies
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021)To help Commonwealth governments and institutions use distance and open learning for sustainable livelihoods -
Mainstreaming Blended Learning in a Low-Income University
(IntechOpen, 2022)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maseno University (MU) began to consider institutional shift from traditional face-to-face (F2F) instructions to online and blended modes of teaching and learning. The university was able to ... -
Influence of Role Play Teaching Technique on Secondary School Students’ Acquisition of Life Skills through Christian Religious Education in Ndhiwa Sub-County, Kenya
(IJISRT, 2020)Christian Religious Education (CRE) is a carrier subject of Life Skills content in Kenyan Secondary School Curriculum. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of Role Play Teaching Technique ( RP) on ...
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