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    Examining the perceived impact of ICT adoption on academic workload and on academic productivity
    (IACSIT Press, 2013) Basak, Sujit Kumar; Eyono Obono, Seraphim Desire
    In the twenty-first century, the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought remarkable societal changes. Nowadays, ICT is becoming increasingly important both in the everyday life and in the education system. It therefore makes sense to examine the impact of ICT adoption on the conduct of academic activities. The aim of this paper is precisely to examine the perceived impact of ICT adoption on academic workload and on academic productivity. This aim is achieved within a theoretical framework on the factors affecting academic productivity. This research was conducted as a questionnaire based survey of 103 academic staff drawn from four Higher Education Institutions in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The survey data was analyzed in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software using a quantitative approach. The results of this survey indicate that ICT adoption has no impact on teaching workload, or on research workload, or on administration workload. No evidence was found on the impact of ICT adoption on academic productivity. This research contributes to new evidence on the possible impact of ICT adoption on academic workload and on academic productivity.
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    Measuring the joint impact of IT adoption and training on academic workload and on research productivity
    (IJACT, 2013-04-25) Basak, Sujit Kumar; Eyono Obono, Seraphim Desire
    Universities carry a prestigious history with their best aca-demics being awarded Nobel prices for their excellent re-search. However, some universities suffer from high aca-demic workload and from low and skewed research produc-tivity despite the adoption of ICT by their academics. Hav-ing learned from existing literature how ICT adoption and ICT training has influenced productivity in domains such as manufacturing and banking, this paper aims to measure the joint impact of ICT adoption and of ICT training on academ-ic workload and on research productivity in universities. This aim is achieved through an experiment with three IT Masters that also responded to a short questionnaire. The design of the experiment was based on an existing training needs assessment model [1], and the design of the question-naire was based on the Technology Acceptance Model [2]. One student wrote his Masters’ research proposal without the help of the EndNote software. A second student wrote his research proposal with the EndNote software but without training, and the third student worked on his research pro-posal with the EndNote software and with a one week’s EndNote training. Results from this study confirm the joint impact of ICT adoption and of ICT training on research productivity; but such an impact was not proven on academ-ic workload, leaving that second aspect as an area for future research. The analysis of the data collected by the question-naire designed by this study also confirms TAM as a theory to explain how ICT training also affects ICT adoption for the improvement of academic workload and of research productivity.
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    Revisiting the theory of planned behavior for the preparation of the adoption of municipal e-services in less developed countries
    (SAICSIT, 2012-10) Gosebo, Ntjatji; Eyono Obono, Seraphim Desire
    The aim of this study is to design a model of the factors affecting the decision of municipal councils of less developed countries (LDCs) to commit resources in preparation of the adoption of e-services. The proposed model was designed by identifying key general e-government adoption factors using a systematic literature review, by modeling these factors according to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and by defining a set of hypotheses for the application of the proposed model to municipal e-services in LDCs. This led to the hypothesis according to which the decision of LDCs’ municipal councils to commit human resources and to engineer institutional arrangements in preparation of the adoption of e-services depends on: a) The ICT infrastructural capabilities of their municipalities. b) How these municipal councils intend to use e-government as a strategic tool towards the fulfillment of their mandate of improving the socio-politico and economic conditions of their municipal citizens. c) Their belief that they are being put under pressure to institute e-government as the tool of excellence or norm for the running of municipal affairs. Such pressure may come from their interaction with their citizens, from national and global challenges beyond their control, or from constraints inherent to their political ideology. The proposed model can be used for the engineering of decision support systems to help municipal councils make investment decisions in preparation of the adoption of e-government especially in the context of LDCs. Futhermore, its originality lies on its focus on factors affecting the preparatory stage of e-services adoption.
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    Experimenting on the added value of M-learning for the teaching of word problems
    (2012) Cassim, K. M.; Eyono Obono, Seraphim Desire
    The aim of this paper is to examine the use of Mobile Learning (M-learning) for the teaching of word problems. This aim is achieved by qualitatively analyzing interviews data from three second grade teachers from urban and rural schools from the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province of South Africa. These teachers were interviewed after the participation of their learners in an experiment in which M-learning was used for word problems homework. Results from this experiment indicate that M-learning improves learners’ performance, attitudes and excitement with regard to word problems. All the teachers interviewed were satisfied with the use of M-learning for the teaching of word problems, and they all agreed on its usefulness, effectiveness and efficiency. However, there were some minor differences of opinions among the teachers on the ease-of-use and on the reliability of the cellular phone application used in the experiment. The novelty of this study can mainly be credited to its focus on the use of cell phone based M-learning for the teaching of word problems, compared to existing literature usually concerned with software applications either for the teaching of algebra and geometry in mathematics or, for teaching in general.
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    A framework for designing information technology programmes using ACM/IEEE curriculum guidelines
    (International Association of Engineers, 2012) Adegbehingbe, Oluwakemi D.; Eyono Obono, Seraphim Desire
    The aim of this paper is to present a framework for the design of Information Technology (IT) curriculum programmes. This aim is achieved by identifying key models for curriculum design in general. The identification of these models was the result of a systematic literature review of existing work on designing and renewing curricula in various disciplines. The main result of this paper was obtained by merging the above mentioned curriculum models, and by incorporating ACM/IEEE-IT curriculum guidelines into the merged model. The resulting model includes the following six key phases for IT curriculum design: Information Collection, Goal Identification, Design, Model Testing, Implementation, and Evaluation. These key phases were finally designed in terms of the core aspects of ACM/IEEE-IT curriculum guidelines, the various options presented by these guidelines, and their ability to be customized. The novelty of this study can be credited to its use of systematic review of existing literature to achieve its aim.