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Impact of Social Media on Student Wellbeing in Kenyan Universities
(Students who spend much of their time on social media are likely to struggle with time management and become less productive in their studies due to distractions by constant alerts, endless scrolling feeds, and the appeal of viral material. The chapter proposed to discuss, social networking sites, academic performance, social opportunities, and challenges. The findings were that social media helps university students get necessary information for their academic achievement, it creates stress, and it exposes them to cyberbullying, is addictive, causes sleep disorders and anxiety, and can help them make money online. The study recommended that the social media use at university should be restricted to academic use only and here should be provide adequate Wi-Fi hotspots within the universities., 2024)Students who spend much of their time on social media are likely to struggle with time management and become less productive in their studies due to distractions by constant alerts, endless scrolling feeds, and the appeal ... -
Strengthening Online Education Approaches in Institutions of Higher Learning
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-05-15)Online, distance, and eLearning (ODeL) continue to gain recognition as a mandatory component of delivery of education in institutions of higher learning (IHL) around the world following the outbreak of coronavirus disease ... -
PolitiKweli: A Swahili-English Code-switched Twitter Political Misinformation Classification Dataset
(Deep Learning Indaba 2023, 2023-08-30)In the age of freedom of speech, users of the social media platform Twitter post millions of messages per day. These messages are not always fact-checked resulting in misinformation which is false or misleading news. ... -
Enhancing students’ biology learning by using augmented reality as a learning supplement
(SAGE Publications, 2020-07)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of augmented reality (AR) technology on students’ learning outcomes (measured according to Bloom’s cognitive levels) and attitude toward biology. The print book was ... -
Effects of tangrams on learning engagement and achievement: Case of preschool learners
(Journal of Computer Assisted Learning ,wiley., 2020-08)The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of physical and virtual tangrams on preschool children's learning engagement and achievement. Children listened to an e‐storybook narration and solved puzzles ... -
Framework for Technology-Enriched Active Class Learning of Physics in Secondary Schools in Kenya
(IGI Global, 2021)Active learning transforms the learning process and activities from tutor focused to learner-cantered and is driven by the learner's learning ability. In other words, active learning provides an opportunity for self-directed ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Cornell University, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ... -
KenSwQuAD – A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language
(arxiv.org, 2022)This research developed a Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset KenSwQuAD from raw data of Swahili language, which is a low resource language predominantly spoken in Eastern African and also has speakers in other ... -
Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks
(arxiv.org, 2022)Indigenous African languages are categorized as under-served in Artificial Intelligence and suffer poor digital inclusivity and information access. The challenge has been how to use machine learning and deep learning models ... -
Proposing Parameters for Evaluating Sustainability of mHealth Systems in Developing Countries.
(Research gate, 2018)The exponential rise in global healthcare challenges; the rise in morbidity and mortality, especially in developing countries have compelled stakeholders to explore alternative ways of overcoming the crisis. Guided by the ... -
Challenges facing digitization projects in kenya: Case of implementation of national land information management system
(IJTS, 2018)Purpose: Technology has been the avenues used to bridge various challenges public service delivery. The government of Kenya has invested heavily in land digitization process in order to eradicate the perennial challenges ... -
Gal operon of Streptomyces
(1995)his invention relates to a recombinant DNA mole cule comprising the Streptomyces gal operon. Hodgson, J. Gen. Micro, 128, 2417-2430 (1982), re port that Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) has a glucose repression system which ... -
An Enhanced Model For Adoption Of Local Softwares: A Case Of Kenya
(CARI Journals, 2017)Purpose: This study attempted to explain how adoption of local software development is affected by the individual, technological, environmental and organizational determinants in Kenya. Methodology:In this framework, ...
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