Ausiku, Maria M.; Matthee, Machdel C.(IPHC-E, 2023-10)
Several professional development programs have been designed to train in-service teachers on a computational thinking (CT) curriculum, but few researchers have examined how these affect primary school teachers' self-efficacy ...
Naidoo, Rennie; Adebesin, Funmi(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-01)
Responsible Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) and Information System (IS) researchers have called for demarginalizing methods for decolonizing digital practices in marginalized indigenous communities. This ...
Teaching data science programmes poses challenges for instructors due to the transdisciplinarity of the field and
the diverse backgrounds and skill levels of students. Effective data science education requires a ...
Muranganwa, Isaac; Naidoo, Rennie(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2023-08-25)
Green information technology (IT) adoption is an important topic in the fields of information systems, business sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. This case study applies the green IT adoption model (GITAM) ...
Maramba, George; Smuts, Hanlie; Hattingh, Maria J. (Marie); Adebesin, Funmi; Moongela, Harry; Mawela, Tendani; Enakrire, Rexwhite(IGI Global, 2023-11)
The resilience and reliability of healthcare supply chain models were put to the test by the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study investigated the application of supply chain systems in South African healthcare ...
Mennega, Nita; Jordaan, Martina(Common Ground Research Networks, 2023-06)
This article employs an explanatory case study approach to describe students’ responses to their community service module and the changes it underwent during the COVID-19–induced social isolation of 2020. Under these ...
Maramba, George; Smuts, Hanlie; Adebesin, Funmi; Hattingh, Maria J. (Marie); Mawela, Tendani(MDPI, 2023-06-06)
The 21st century world never anticipated a scenario in which it would be thrown into
disarray by a fast-spreading viral disease, during which governments hastily had to enforce curfews
by imposing travel and social ...
The emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) paradigm, whilst posing challenges, also presents significant opportunities to bolster research capabilities and pioneer breakthrough innovations that can stimulate ...
Search engines are tools used to find information on the Internet. Since the web has a plethora of websites, the engine queries the majority of active sites and builds a database organized according to keywords utilized ...
BACKGROUND : Public sector organisations encounter many challenges because of their complex legislative requirements, social responsibilities and higher public expectations. In the early 1980s, governments worldwide started ...
Sustainable agriculture is the backbone of food security systems and a driver of human well-being in global economic development (Sustainable Development Goal SDG 3). With the increase in world population and the effects ...
Mahlaza, Zola; Keet, C. Maria(Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-08)
There has been growing interest in building surface realization systems to support the automatic generation
of text in African languages. Such tools focus on converting abstract representations of meaning to text.
Since ...
Climate change is a global problem which has pushed world leaders and their respective
countries to take definitive measures to address the environmental crises. One of the areas
of attention is the information, communication ...
Tarafdar, Monideepa; Saunders, Carol S.(Association for Information Systems, 2022)
Blue-collar remote and mobile workers (BC-RMWs) such as repair/installation engineers, delivery drivers, and construction workers, constitute a significant share of the workforce. They work away from a home or office work ...
Blockchain technology became known as the technology that powers the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Although this was blockchain’s initial purpose, in recent years, it has proven capable of disrupting numerous industries. ...
The AAAI 2022 Spring Symposium on Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering for
Hybrid Intelligence (AAAI-MAKE 2022) brought together researchers and practitioners of the
two fields to reflect on advances in combining ...
Msweli, Nkosikhona Theoren; Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Ismail, Mymoena(Informing Science Institute, 2022)
AIM/PURPOSE : Systematic literature reviews seek to locate all studies that contain material of relevance to a research question and to synthesize the relevant outcomes of those studies. The primary aim of this paper was ...
Janse van Rensburg, Theane(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Due to the looming Fourth Industrial Revolution, massive changes in occupations are predicted that will require a new set of skills from the next generation. As a result, educational systems are struggling to equip students ...
Tsai, Jacob Chia-An; Klein, Gary; Saunders, Carol S.; Jiang, James J.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023)
Legacy information system (LIS) replacement pro-jects are increasingly complex. Consequently, they require cooperation to integrate different functional knowledge to support organizational business processes. However, ...
In recent years, many countries in the developed world, have introduced computational thinking (CT) teaching in compulsory education, with few developing nations following. The introduction to teaching CT brought many ...