Julius T. Nganji

University of Toronto | U of T · Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy

Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing in influence across different fields, the subject of AI literacy in higher education (HE) remains inadequately explored. Through a systematic review of 19 peer-reviewed journal articles, this chapter fills that gap. The findings of this study highlight the advancements in AI literacy education acr...

Overview The congruence of technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and its use for education can help transform pedagogical practices and the future of education (Walsh, 2020; ICFE, 2021; UNESCO, 2023; Okoye et al., 2024a). Leading educational bodies like UNESCO (2021a,b, 2023) and the World Bank (2021) are advocating for research and devel...

The congruence of technology such as AI (artificial intelligence) and its use for education can help transform pedagogical practices and the future of education (ICFE, 2021; Okoye et al., 2024; UNESCO, 2023; Walsh, 2020). Leading educational bodies like UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021b, 2021a, 2023) and the World Bank (World Bank, 2021) are advocating for res...

Automated prediction of students' retention and graduation in education using advanced analytical methods such as artificial intelligence (AI), has recently attracted the attention of educators, both in theory and in practice. Whereas invaluable insights and theories for measuring and testing the topic have been proposed, most of the existing metho...

Purpose: There are several ways to include "disability" in research studies, which can be confusing or overwhelming for researchers, community members, and students. The aim of this paper is to share conceptualizations of disability and how to ask about "disability" in research studies. The paper provides a general introduction and brief analysis...

Project-based learning (PBL) promotes increased levels of learning, deepens student understanding of acquired knowledge, and improves learning motivation. Students develop their ability to think and learn independently through depending on themselves in searching for knowledge, planning, exploration, and looking for solutions to practical problems....

Project-based learning (PBL) promotes increased levels of learning, deepens student understanding of acquired knowledge, and improves learning motivation. Students develop their ability to think and learn independently through depending on themselves in searching for knowledge, planning, exploration, and looking for solutions to practical problems....

To secure an inclusive and development-oriented society where nations can create, access, and utilize a scalable and sustainable infrastructure and resources, an equitable and effective investment in education and human capital development, including science, technology, and innovation (STI) has proven to be inevitable. There have been speculations...

This book contains peer-reviewed selected papers of the 7th International Conference on Educational Innovation (CIIE 2020). It presents excellent educational practices and technologies complemented by various innovative approaches that enhance educational outcomes. In line with the Sustainable Development Goal 4 of UNESCO in the 2030 agenda, CIIE 2...

In Cameroon, more insight is needed into how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used in secondary school administration. Thus, we conducted a study to determine how ICTs facilitate teaching and learning in Cameroonian schools, taking the Fako Division as a case study. A survey was administered in selected secondary schools, and t...

There are limited literature and insight about how disability-inclusive research communities of practice are formed and coordinated and the dynamics within these communities of practice. To address this knowledge gap, this paper presents preliminary findings of a study to examine some of the challenges in fostering collaborative learning faced by m...

Since October 2016, Cameroon has been involved in a violent conflict known as the Anglophone Crisis. This study examines the impact of the hashtag #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter in capturing and amplifying the stories of people affected by the crisis. Using R, the authors extracted and analyzed tweets using this hashtag that were posted betwee...

This paper explores how to build ontology-driven learning systems from a flexible disability-aware mentality and augment them into a learning blend that embraces social media. The approach emphasizes the use of user centered flexible software in a blended approach to learning. The paper starts with a discussion of how learners learn, including thei...

ABSTACT Insufficient opportunities to collect data on public health exist in armed conflict regions. Increased use of social media during war and conflict has allowed for data collection in situations where information is usually difficult to obtain. In this study, Twitter, a public social media platform, was used as a source of data and informatio...

Computer and Electrical Engineering have revolutionized the modern day-to-day interactions of humans and machines around the world [1]–[3]. There is evidence that the congruence of these two concepts has, over the decades, improved human lives and has led to fervent emergence of systems or machines that have proved not only to be intelligent but ar...

This study explored the experiences of health and social service providers who took part in ‘The Forum’, a virtual community of practice (VCoP) which provided education and support on mental health and trauma-informed services in the context of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis. Using thematic analysis, the study examined qualitative data from 13 semi...

A violent conflict, known as the Anglophone Crisis has been occuring in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon since 2016. This conflict and associated consequences have affected the way healthcare is provided. To help meet the needs of healthcare workers and other service providers, a community of practice called ‘The Forum’ was establish...

Today, the trends and advancements in information and communication technologies have proven to be indispensable towards achieving the goals of modern educational models and processes. On the one hand, there is a need for educators to adopt new technologies in support of different activities that constitute the educational processes; ranging from c...

Today, theoretical and practical advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) have shown to be indispensable towards achieving the goals of modern educational institutions including the underlying process models. There is evidence that existing technologies such as learning analytics (LA) is one of the tools that can not only be...

Background: The North West Region of Cameroon has been in the grip of civil unrest and violence for over three years, hindering the development of community, rehabilitation, health, and social services. Human rights and progress on the sustainable development goals have become compromised. Story telling/sharing and the use of social media are ways...

We examined how various groups in Cameroon – including the government, Anglophone activists, media organisations and citizens – used social media, particularly Twitter, to report on events related to the crisis.

A growing body of literature shows that social media plays a key role during crises and conflicts. In addition to traditional media, social media are used to mobilise people for a common cause and to communicate vital information. Very little is known about social media use during crises in the sub-Saharan African context. This article presents how...

The use of social media such as WhatsApp is changing communication patterns between Africans and the world. In this presentation we reflect on the innovative uses of WhatsApp that we have seen as our teams have attempted to carry out disability inclusive program development and disability inclusive research in Cameroon. Many of these practices have...

With the proliferation of information technology devices comes a massive increase in the number of information systems that are developed to meet the demands of users. By default, designers and developers of information systems tend to design for users without disabilities. The consequences for people with disabilities are enormous. This chapter ai...

Purpose This paper aims to suggest how the information journey of students with disabilities could be facilitated, by first revealing the existence of inaccessible formats such as Portable Document Format (PDF) and then suggesting the inclusion of alternative formats of accessible learning materials, thus improving retrieval. Design/methodology/a...

Two hundred portable document format (PDF) articles from four Web of Science‐indexed disability‐related journals were analysed to assess their accessibility. Fifty articles from each journal published between 2014 and 2018 were examined using expert manual inspection, Adobe Acrobat Pro XI, PDF Accessibility Checker 3 and NVDA screen reader. Results...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine a world without technology. We interact with technology every day in various ways. This inevitable modern technological revolution has meant that many services are increasingly being offered online. Amongst these services e-learning, e-commerce and e-health are most common. With the drive to use tec...

Whilst a lot of research has been carried out on designing learning environments to meet the needs of learners, much of such research has focused on producing less flexible ready-made environments for learners to interact with. However, e-learning design and development could benefit from the lessons of the interaction of users with mobile devices,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how virtual learning environments (VLEs) can be designed to include the needs of learners with multiple disabilities. Specifically, it employs AI to show how specific learning materials from a huge repository of learning materials can be recommended to learners with various disabilities. This is made...

This paper describes the use of Intelligent Agents and Ontologies to implement knowledge navigation and learner choice when interacting with complex information locations. The paper is in two parts: the first looks at how Agent Based Semantic Technology can be used to give users a more personalised experience as an individual. The paper then looks...

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which is more prevalent amongst students than any other disability. With an increasing awareness of this disability and the need for support, there have been many articles written on this subject. This article considers the definition of dyslexia, how it manifests and the difference it makes to learning. T...

Current efforts towards including students with disabilities in web-based higher education are well established. However, existing learning environments are not fully inclusive, particularly for those with multiple disabilities. Most learning environments built for students with disabilities limit themselves to meeting the needs of specific disabil...

Existing virtual learning environments (VLEs) in educational institutions are not designed with the expectation that students with disabilities will use them. Consequently, retrieving relevant information by some students with disabilities is a challenging task. The focus of this study was to propose the design of VLEs to incorporate ontologies tha...

People with disabilities, especially those who are blind, rely on assistive technologies to read information on the web. When this information does not conform to accessibility standards, assistive technologies experience significant difficulties trying to interpret it. Journal publishers prefer to publish articles online in the portable document f...

Blended learning could be seen as the solution to learning resource accessibility, especially when the indicators of measure are limited to distance and time. Distance and time could be said to be the generic indicators for the measure of blended learning. However, these do not solve the problem for everyone in society. For Inclusive Blended Learni...

The increasing use of technology to enhance learning means both disabled students and higher education institutions face the challenge of adapting technology to meet the educational and special needs of students. As most e-learning systems are not designed to meet special needs, it is imperative to look for newer ways of designing e-learning system...

This paper looks specifically at how to develop light weight methods of evaluating pedagogically motivated software. Whilst we value traditional usability testing methods this paper will look at how Heuristic Evaluation can be used as both a driving force of Software Engineering Iterative Refinement and end of project Evaluation. We present three c...

Blended learning could be seen as the solution to learning resources accessibility especially when the indicators of measure are limited to distance and time. Distance and time could be said to be the generic indicators for the measure of blended learning, however, these do not solve the problem for everyone in the society. For Inclusive Blended Le...

Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to show how personalisation of learning resources and services can be achieved for students with and without disabilities, particularly responding to the needs of those with multiple disabilities in e-learning systems. The paper aims to introduce ONTODAPS, the Ontology-Driven Disability-Aware Personalised E-Le...

Disabled students in higher education are faced with a lot of difficulties accessing learning resources when e-learning systems are inaccessible. When instructional designers and developers of e-learning systems overlook the needs of disabled students, this leads to exclusion in what is termed disability divide. This paper reviews some disabilities...

The exploration of social artifacts for the disabled is an important and timely issue. The affordances of new technologies like the Semantic Web allow more intelligent handling of educational learning resources that open up the potential of personalisation of services to individuals. Contemporary legislation calls for "reasonable adjustments" and "...

People with visual impairments, particularly blind people face alot of difficulties browsing the web with assistive technologies such as screen readers, when websites do not conform to accessibility standards and are thus inaccessible. HTML is the basic language for website design but its ALT attribute on the IMG element does not adequately capture...

In developing software systems, software engineers use software development life cycles such as the waterfall, prototyping or spiral model. Whilst these life cycles ensure that the system meets the needs of people without disabilities, the needs of people with disabilities are often overlooked thus resulting in systems that are inaccessible and unu...

The number of students with disabilities in UK higher education institutions increases every year. Delivering education online is becoming increasingly challenging as institutions encounter some disabilities requiring adjustments of learning environments. The law requires that people with disabilities be given equivalent learning experiences to the...

Disability legislations such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, 2005 and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 call on service providers to make “reasonable adjustments” and “reasonable accommodation” respectively to their services in order to accommodate the needs of disabled people. Higher education institutions as service providers can re...

Man’s negative impact on the environment due to various activities has raised serious concerns with numerous campaigns rising to protect the environment. Computer waste also contributes to damaging not only the environment, but has serious consequences on human health resulting from pollution of the air, water and soil which are part of the ecosyst...

Man’s negative impact on the environment due to various activities has raised serious concerns with numerous campaigns rising to protect the environment. Computer waste also contributes to damaging not only the environment, but has serious consequences on human health resulting from pollution of the air, water and soil which are part of the ecosyst...

Although with the overwhelming impact of new technologies globally, numerous factors still account for the setbacks in bridging the digital divide in developing nations. Cameroon has for several years been trailing in the employment of ICTs to facilitate learning and teaching in schools. Nevertheless, a number of ICT projects have been implemented...

Today, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the way we interact with one another and access services such as education, travel, banking and communication as we increasingly incorporate these into everyday life. Studies have suggested a strong correlation between ICT exclusion and social exclusion. This paper seeks to raise...

The medical sector in Africa still faces a lot of challenges including shortage of personnel and medical facilities. Various approaches have been used in healthcare including basic telemedicine, but advanced telemedicine is not yet being fully implemented because of the high cost of implementation. Nevertheless, with the advent of the internet, ehe...

Effects of some medicinal plants (Carica papaya, Spilanthes filicaulis, Lantana camara and Bryophyllum pinnatum) on the sporulation of Eimeria tenella oocysts A study was carried out between October 2000 and April 2001 to determine the effects of some medicinal plants on the sporulation of Eimeria tenella oocysts. Four local one-month-old chickens...