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Essel, Harry Barton; Vlachopoulos, Dimitrios; Tachie-Menson, Akosua; Johnson, Esi Eduafua; Baah, Papa Kwame – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
Chatbot usage is evolving rapidly in various fields, including higher education. The present study's purpose is to discuss the effect of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) that automatically responds to a student's question. A pretest-posttest design was implemented, with the 68 participating undergraduate students being randomly allocated to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Assistants, Undergraduate Students
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Koruga, Nikola; Nainwal, Rohit; Ayisi-Addo, Angela Kyerewaa – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2023
Objective: The purpose of this research was to understand the significant changes and challenges regarding teaching experiences during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in three universities, one each in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The study provides information on how teachers adapted to online teaching under COVID-19 conditions. Methods: We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education, Educational Technology
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Biney, Isaac Kofi – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
The advancement in information and communication technology and its application in teaching and learning tools have taken learning to a higher level. Innovations in information and communication technology and its deployment in teaching and learning aid adult learning through the distance education mode. Accra Learning Centre hosts the biggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Information Technology, Teaching Methods
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Essel, Harry Barton; Osei-Poku, Patrick; Tachie-Menson, Akosua; Opoku-Asare, Nana Afia – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Submission of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) by postgraduate students has become a common phenomenon in learning environments globally. The purpose of ETDs is to train postgraduate students as knowledge workers in online publishing and also extend their skills beyond word processing. The challenge however, is that many postgraduate…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Pacing, Multimedia Instruction, Courseware
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Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong – E-Learning, 2009
Working with the premise that information and communications technology (ICT) has the capacity to make or unmake so far as women's empowerment is concerned, this article looks at the ICT situation among female distance learners in both endowed and under-served parts of Ghana, to check the user differentials among the two contrasting groups through…
Descriptors: Females, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources