Jude Thaddeus Lubega

Nkumba University (NU) · Department of Computing

Landslides are a major concern for hilly regions worldwide, claiming lives and livelihoods. Early detection and warning systems are crucial in mitigating the impact. This paper aims to identify and analyse the existing landslides early warning systems (LEWS) by analysing the community awareness and assessing the perception of the respondents toward...

COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumptions of e-services in the Ugandan education sector. This study aims at establishing the type of e-learning platforms adopted by educational institutions in Kampala and evaluate the appropriateness of their security mechanisms for online academic progression assessments. The researcher's adopted a mixed-method r...

Globally the health sector has witnessed disruptive transformation of how information is; generated, analyzed and shared using Information Communication Technologies (ICT). There is limited understanding on how patient’s access of online health information influences their desire to seek professional healthcare services or their adherence to profes...

Background: The use of adaptable ICTs in teaching and learning is the most critical factor that boosts the learners' interest. The use of ICTs in pedagogy in Africa is still low in primary teachers' colleges. Therefore, the study explored the extent to which adaptable ICT teaching strategies and learning activities influence teaching process in pri...

This study examines the effect of utilizing agile software development methodologies on the success of software development projects at Flock of Birds, Uganda. This was prompted by low success rates of software development projects despite employing agile methodologies. The study specifically sought to: investigate the effect of utilizing agile pro...

This document presents results of a study that was conducted on the current state of art and practices in ICT4Agric in Uganda with an aim of addressing the existing knowledge gap about the sub-sector, but more importantly to provide evidence to guide policy development and intervention strategies designed by government and other stakeholders. To be...

Social media platforms have transformed the way we live and work. These platforms have opened up new opportunities for service provisioning and business models. Therefore, this paper presents findings of how leading Ugandan Universities are integrating social media in the teaching and learning processes. The researchers adopted a multi-methodology...

This paper unveils that problem grounded Information Communication Technology based solutions (ICTs) can enhance credit facilitation decision making that can ultimately improve financial Performance in Agricultural Cooperatives. This paper is motivated by two issues. Firstly, that the current financial performance measured in terms of loan portfoli...

This paper argues that improving the significant role of financing played by agricultural cooperatives to increase agricultural productivity can be strengthened. The paper is advancing that this can be done through enhancing decisions that matter for the credit facilitation processes in agricultural cooperatives as they advance credit to their memb...

There is growing evidence in Uganda that the non-attendance of antenatal care is largely influenced by the lack of decision-making autonomy, inadequate information and poor services offered in health facilities. Although previous studies have examined barriers and facilitators of antenatal care, a few of them have investigated the extent of decisio...

This paper is a discussion of factors for success and failure of e-government projects based on a study of sample projects that have so far registered either partial or total success. The paper also discusses key strategies from recommendations of participants from the studied projects and existing literature that e-government projects can benefit...

E-learning systems at the market do not adequately support learning in a constructivist way because they do not adapt to the special needs and personal attributes of individual learners. Eliciting complete and correct requirements is a major challenge in personalized learning. Literature review and Interviews conducted with twenty lecturers helped...

E-learning management systems use an interactive approach that presents the learner with learning objects to interact with during the learning process. Several interactive platforms for sharing learners' ideas, integrating mutual knowledge or providing feedback have been proposed. However, these approaches have met with limited success. Furthermore...

The adoption and use of technology to support higher education processes has been increasingly affected by knowledge management (KM), learning technologies and emerging support tools for performance improvement. To achieve their goals, higher education institutions must endeavor to align operational processes and organizational learning with KM tec...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a model for adopting social networked learning in higher institutions of learning in developing countries of Africa. Design/methodology/approach Mixed methods research methodology involving survey and interviews was adopted in the collection of data for building the model. The model was theoretical...

An increasing desire to port learning objects on mobile phones exists. However, there is limited understanding on how to pedagogically obtain access to and use learning objects on mobile phones. The limited understanding is caused by a dearth in frameworks for underpinning the development of mobile learning objects applications. Following Design Re...

Uganda faces challenges in her efforts to achieve her goal “education for all”, as a developing country. E-learning has been suggested as an alternative approach that can overcome these challenges involved in reaching underserved students. It is therefore important for an institution to know if it is ready for e-learning. This study examined the re...

The efficient transmission of multimedia applications and time sensititive applications in particular, over the heterogeneous networks is a challenging research problem that requires investigation. This paper focuses on an experimental testbed designed to verify the theoretical concept; performance of multimedia content can be improved by optimizin...

Learning environments are based on core foundations, describing how knowledge is acquired and used, the underlying pedagogical philosophy, the supported learning process, the role of technique and culture, and related pragmatics. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy (BDT) describes the various thinking skills, ranging from low to high order thinking skills. We...

This paper proposes a novel optimization technique that addresses the most critical issue that impedes the process of technology integration in the universities in developing countries. The problem is addressed by optimizing the network efficiency and multimedia performance that matches with the challenges of constrained low bandwidth environment....

The adoption and use of ICT to enhance and facilitate Knowledge Management (KM) has brought to focus the urgent need to come out with new methods, tools and techniques in the development of KM systems frameworks, knowledge processes and knowledge technologies to promote effective management of knowledge for improved service deliveries in higher edu...

This paper provides the lessons learned in an m-learning initiative to support distance learning students undertaking a field research project. Learner survey and staff interview data revealed that m-learning overcomes the odds that inhibit the implementation of 'conventional' e-learning and creates a platform for regular interaction. M-learning cr...

The increasing functionality of mobile phones, together with their capability of ready access to the Internet leads educators to deliver content to a mobile phone. Content regardless of the delivery mechanism, is delivered in modules or 'learning objects'. Over the last decade, research attention has been accorded to the design and development of r...

How can we solve the lull in uptake and usage of online learning amongst traditional distance learners in Africa? Several online learning initiatives are taking place in Africa, but a critical assessment of their impact in terms of increasing access to higher education through distance learning indicates, in most cases, lack of value for money. A f...

When using e-learning material some students progress readily, others have difficulties. In a traditional classroom the teacher would identify those with difficulties and direct them to additional resources. This support is not easily available within e-learning. A new approach to providing constructive feedback is developed that will enable an e-l...

This paper discusses how to move forward the position at which accessibility is considered in creating websites. Initial research on Web accessibility was focused on testing completed Web pages. More recently, the focus is moving to integrating accessibility features into coding tools such as Dreamweaver 8 and plugins notably LIFT, a plugin for Dre...

This paper first presents a framework for filtering the Web Accessibility Guidelines according to contexts of use. It then presents a prototype that implements the framework and explains an evaluation of the prototype.

In this paper, we propose an approach for filtering Web based content according to context of use based on user roles and other use case scenarios. The purpose of the filtration approach is to make such Web content easier to use for the target audience. Context of use is important for the usability of Web based content particularly that used by dif...

In the new economic era, knowledge has become the primary source of wealth and consequently, the term knowledge economy or knowledge age. Rapid technological advancements and innovations have narrowed the gap between competing organizations such that the collective knowledge of employees is regarded as the key factor in producing innovative and com...

Considerable research has been done on how to make e-learning systems accessible. But Learners in electronic and hybrid learning environments utilize many Web based systems beyond what the instructor and institution provides and can control such as search engines, news portals and research databases. This paper presents Web design requirements that...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as the World Wide Web (WWW) has increasingly become embedded in everyday life and is progressively becoming indispensable for public, business, personal efficiency or even improvement of livelihoods [1]. Web users including People with Disabilities (PWDs) can conveniently undertake a number of tas...

Advancement in Information Technology (IT) has led to better facilities and services for learning within educational organizations. Many higher educational institutions of learning have adopted technology in their learning methods in order to enhance the traditional learning method and to offer distance/purely online learning. This enhancement is i...

The introduction of e-Learning in many institutions of learning has led to a paradigm shift in how learners grasp and apply what they learnt. Studies have shown that it is difficult for people to deal with decision-making situations that require Higher Order Cognitive Skills (HOCS) (Mbarika et al., 2003). Undergraduate learning by the traditional l...

As the learning paradigm shifts to a more personalised learning process, users need dynamic feedback from their knowledge path. Learning Management Systems (LMS) offer customised feedback dependent on questions and the answers given. However these LMSs are not designed to generate personalised feedback for an individual learner, tutor and instructi...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) in e-learning have functionality for monitoring learning activities. The statistics generated from learning performances can be processed for tutors and a group of learners to improve their quality of teaching and learning. However the current LMS are not designed to facilitate personalised learning support for an...

A self study course for learning to program using the C programming language has been developed. A Learning Object approach was used in the design of the course. One of the benefits of the Learning Object approach is that the learning material can be reused for different purposes. 'Me course developed is designed so that learners can choose the ped...

Pair Programming is a technique from the software development method eXtreme Programming (XP) whereby two programmers work closely together to develop a piece of software. A similar approach has been used to develop a set of Assessment Learning Objects (ALO). Three members of academic staff have developed a set of ALOs for a total of three differen...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are now being widely used in education. Their main function is to systematically manage and deliver learning materials. There is a need for LMS that can deliver personalised material suited to the learner's learning requirements and their learning style. A method and associated techniques have been developed that a...

ICT and KM have become one of the most important concepts to be adopted by Higher Education Institutions (HEI) worldwide to advance their goals. The purpose of this paper is to express a position on a research project to be undertaken to develop a design theory to guide the development of a framework for KM using ICT in higher education in Uganda....

The rapid technological development in mobile phones coupled with their rapid diffusion into all walks of life has instigated various sectors to exploit them for various purposes aimed at enhancing organizational efficiency and flexibility. The communication, business, financial, banking and education sectors have developed and continue to develop...

The task of designing information systems is clearly interdisciplinary, since it requires domain knowledge in business process development within the social environment, and the processes management of technological applications. This paper explains e-learning as a human activity system, which requires soft methodologies that deal with the analysis...

Technology has contributed a lot of improvements in pedagogical aspects of education. To many educators it is believed that technology will some day control the entire activities within education. This approach which is referred to as e-learning is transforming how education is being delivered. However the e-learning approach depends on the proper...

This paper explores on how the blended learning method has been implemented in the developing country such as Uganda. Many higher education institutions in Uganda have acquired a new form of learning using technology that they combine with the traditional learning methods. Implementation of this form of learning using technology has been challenged...