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Towards Prediction of Students’ Academic Performance in Secondary School Using Decision Trees
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS), 2009-10)Abstract - Prediction of students’ academic performance with high accuracy is useful in many contexts. Institutions would like to know which students are likely to have low academic achievements or need assistance in ... -
Students Selection for University Course Admission at the Joint Admissions Board (Kenya) Using Trained Neural Networks
(2011-01)Every year, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) is tasked to determine those students who are expected to join various Kenyan public universities under the government sponsorship scheme. This exercise is usually extensive ... -
Integrating Virtual Reality in Education using Intranet Grids
(IOSR Journal of Engineering, 2012)In recent years there has been increase in diverse views in relation to the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to enhance learning and cognition. Besides, there has been significant growth in the use of 3D virtual worlds for ... -
A Framework for E-Learning Implementation in Developing Countries
(2012)Institutions of higher learning in developing countries have lagged behind those in the developed world in e-learning (eL) adoption, mainly due to cost and poor Internet infrastructure. Introduction of eL in such ... -
Challenges in Achieving Interoperability in Distributed Systems
(International Journal of Emerging Sciences, 2012)As need for collaboration and distributed systems among organizations increase, there is the challenge of different standards in almost all communication issues. This calls for scrutiny of systems used by different ... -
E-Business Adoption Framework in the Hospitality Industry
(Business Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), 2013)While the hospitality industry in the Kenyan Coast has adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT), application of the same is limited to internal operations and control. The industry’s e-business adoption ... -
Trends towards Predictive Mapping of Graduates’ Skills to Industry Roles
(British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, 2016-01)Aim: To investigate whether industry roles in the same occupation have similar academic requirements and establish learning trends in the academia towards occupational industry roles. Design of Study: Descriptive survey ... -
Influence Of ICT Related Training On Customer Service Delivery In County Governments In Kenya: A Case Of Machakos County
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH, 2016-02)The main purpose of this study was to establish the effect of ICT related training on customer service delivery in Machakos County, Kenya. Being a descriptive and correlational cross-sectional survey, self-administered ... -
E-SERVICES & DEVOLUTION: USAGE OF ICT APPLICATIONS ON CUSTOMER SERVICE DELIVERY IN MACHAKOS COUNTY GOVERNMENT, KENYA
(International Journal of Management Research & Review, 2016-04)This paper examined the effect of ICT applications and their frequency of usage on customer service delivery in Machakos County Government (MCG). The ICT applications included Mobile Point of Sale (M-POS) ... -
Proposed Model for Predictive Mapping Graduates' Skills to Industry Roles using Machine Learning Techniques
(The International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES), 2016-04)The main focus in training evaluation is not only to determine whether training objectives were achieved but also how to improve evaluation so as to enhance both employability of graduates and performance in the job. This ... -
SMS Enhanced Justice: Towards Efficiency and Convenience in Court Cases
(University of Nairobi, 2017)We seek to bring convenience and efficiency in the process of accessing justice through the courts of law. A lot of time and money is wasted when litigants travel long distances to visit court registries, in order to ... -
A model for evaluating e-learning systems quality in higher education in developing countries
(International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT), 2017-08-30)The rapid growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has brought about significant changes in the practice of e-learning globally. In recent years, there has been an increasing adoption of Learning Management ... -
What Theory of Change Can Contribute to Capability Approach: Towards Evaluating ICT-Enabled Interventions
(2018 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa), 2018)Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) has emerged as holistic lenses for theorising development within Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) discourses. There is ongoing research on ... -
Factors affecting asynchronous e-learning quality in developing countries
(International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2018)Despite the potential of Learning Management System (LMS) supported asynchronous e-learning to improve asynchronous e-learning system quality by enhancing learning effectiveness and academic achievement of HEIs , several ... -
A SITUATIONAL METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
(International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology, 2018)Healthcare business processes are complex due to the many decisions and procedures captured, are highly dynamic, increasingly multidisciplinary and ad hoc which makes it difficult to achieve any meaningful improvement ... -
Tackling Data Related Challenges in Healthcare Process Mining using Visual Analytics
(IJCAT, 2018)Data-science approaches such as Visual analytics tend to be process blind whereas process-science approaches such as process mining tend to be model-driven without considering the "evidence" hidden in the data. Use of ... -
Status of e-Learning Quality in Kenya: Case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Postgraduate Students
(International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018-02)There is a substantial increase in the use of learning management systems (LMSs) to support e-learning in higher education institutions, particularly in developing countries. This has been done with some measures of success ... -
Uncharted Academic Waters: A Case for mUtilities (Energy, Water and Sanitation)
(2018-11)This paper aims to explore the academic literature in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). It seeks to find out how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and mobile ... -
Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for Circle Bin Packing Problem
(2020)We address a new variant of packing problem called the circle bin packing problem (CBPP), which is to find a dense packing of circle items to multiple square bins so as to minimize the number of used bins. To this end, ... -
DETERMINANTS FOR THE ADOPTION OF INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) FOR FLOOD AND DROUGHT DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN KENYA
(International Scientific Journal Theoretical & Applied Science, 2020-09-21)Abstract: Major disasters continue to affect millions of people worldwide every year. These disasters range from earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, hunger, terrorist activities to collapse of buildings, among ...