John Mangundu

• Information Technology Lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand

The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education has the potential to enhance teaching and learning; however, several barriers hinder its effective adoption in South African schools. The paper reports on the study that examined the barrier to sustainable integration of ICT in Pietermaritzburg public secondary schools....

The objective of this study was to examine university students' technostress as it relates to their academic commitment in South Africa, in accordance with the technostress creators' model and the adapted organizational commitment model. Through an online survey, a closed-ended questionnaire was employed to collect data from a randomly selected sam...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the educational experience for academics and students. However, research has inadequately examined AI ethics and governance, particularly in the higher education sector of developing economies such as South Africa. AI governance ensures that envisioned AI benefits are realized while reducing AI risks. Agains...

The intention of this study is to examine from a behavioral perspective, how technostress impacts on academics' cybersecurity compliance in universities where the protection of information systems has become of vital importance due to increased dependency for academic business. The authors proposed a research framework informed by the Technostress...

The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic has suddenly driven higher education institutions towards emergency remote teaching (ERT) to save academic programmes. Despite the benefits brought by remote teaching, it has the potential to bring negative consequences such as compromised academic integrity resulting from the use of e-assessments in environments...

Background: The sudden shift by higher education institutions (HEIs) to emergency remote teaching (ERT), driven by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, pushed academic advisors of HEIs to suddenly shift towards e-academic advising to continue with the provision of academic advisory support services. However, few studies have concentrat...

Information communication technologies (ICTs) have become an indispensable asset in the university environment. However, processes regarding ICT acquisition have become complicated as adoption of ICTs brings with it ICT risks, requiring ICT governance. ICT governance in a developing economy university context has not received much attention. Theref...

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the adoption of lockdowns, social distancing, and quarantines as measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, forcing education spaces in both developed and developing economies to suddenly shift towards adoption of emergency online teaching and learning. However, developing economies were lagging in the...