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Since COVID-19 began, the ways of teaching and learning have changed drastically. Traditional teaching methods are shifted to technology-mediated methodologies such as asynchronous online learning, hybrid learning, blended learning, hy-flex learning, on-demand learning, and competency-based online learning. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional active learning models, compelling but complex, are assumed not to fit in the hybrid classroom because of the affordance and integration of...

Given the drive towards knowledge-based economy to secure and sustain economic advancement, what types of education interventions are most effective holds policy and scholarly interest, particularly in less developed regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa where learning outcomes are weaker and resources are more scarce. It is therefore important to identify: (a) effective interventions; and (b) the reasons why other interventions are less effective. We conducted a systematic review of reviews on...

During COVID-19, the social distance became an obligatory fact which forced the whole world to rely on e-learning for all levels of education. E-learning is becoming the main challenge for many developing countries specific. Technologies are not fully accepted and used in Egyptian primary and preparatory schools before. However, the successful usage of e-learning depends on understanding the acceptance factors as well as the main challenges that face it. In this regard, this study aims to...

This article reports on how tutorials are employed as an instrument for the decolonisation of higher education and the promotion of inclusivity. The study was underpinned by activity theory and Bourdieu’s social field theory. Since 2015, students have embarked on nationwide protests against a colonised higher education system that they lament also makes them feel unwelcome and alienated. They have demanded that tertiary institutions be inclusive, address social justice and apply...

Our aim is to clarify mud volcanoes from the new mud diapirs resulting from the seismic attributes analysis applied to the low resolution Burmah oil "1973Burmah oil " -1974" seismic data.The latter was carried out on the Larache and Tanger-Larache offshores from the NE-SW Atlantic margin.The high resolution seismic data was essential for this evaluation.In this case, we applied seismic signature analysis to four seismic profiles from the map of the seismic data set, which includes all new...

The study investigated the teaching challenges faced by English Second language (ESL) teachers in Senior Secondary Schools in the Ohangwena Region, Namibia.The study used the mixed methods research approach to collect data from a sample of 60 ESL teachers currently teaching in the eleven Senior Secondary Schools in Ohangwena Region.The research participants were selected using the purposive sampling method.Data were collected using questionnaires, focus group discussions and observations.The...

In recent years, with the proliferation of the internet and the social media, there are massive numbers of users who share their contents over wide range of social networks. Thus, a huge volume of electronic data is available on the Internet containing the users’ thoughts, attitudes, views and opinions towards certain products, events, news or any interesting topics. Therefore, Sentiment Analysis (SA) became one of the most active research areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most...

The problems of malnutrition constitute a major challenge in South Africa, particularly affecting the underprivileged populations of the Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces. The present study aimed to gain an understanding of how to improve the nutritional intake of South African university student mothers and their children by the introduction of Moringa oleifera in their food. Focus Group Discussion was implemented at two previously historically disadvantaged universities with predominantly...

Background: The Family Medicine Specialty was endorsed to fulfill the needs of qualified Primary Health Care providers.Family Medicine Postgraduate Training in Egypt had started in the universities under the umbrella of Medical Colleges in the form of postgraduate trainings and degrees.Objectives: This paper aimed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the different clinical rotations in Family Medicine in relation to the learning outcomes and to assess trainees' satisfaction.Methods: A...

World Health Organization (WHO) defines teenage pregnancy as occurring between the ages of 10 and 19.Although teenagers make up just 22% of the Ghanaian population, in 2014, a Demographic and Health Survey report indicated that teenagers account for 30% of all births recorded.Pregnancies and births during the teenage period are associated with higher risks than older women.This study aimed to identify and establish the knowledge of factors linked to teenage pregnancies among junior high...

Mismatched data is a challenging problem for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. One of the most common techniques used to address mismatched data is multi-style training (MTR), a form of data augmentation that attempts to transform the training data to be more representative of the testing data; and to learn robust representations applicable to different conditions. This task can be very challenging if the test conditions are unknown. We explore the impact of different MTR styles on...

The Rabaul volcanic complex, Papua New Guinea, is among the few calderas worldwide with ongoing volcanic activity. Its volcanic lithologies vary from mafic lavas from outer caldera cones to differentiated lavas within. In this study, representative lavas have been analysed for their major and trace element concentrations and radiogenic Sr-Nd-Hf isotope compositions to study the geochemical evolution of the magmatic system. Stable Fe isotopes and concentrations of high field strength elements...

Parents and caregivers of children with disabilities often act as representatives, mediators, and advocates for their children, partly out of necessity and partly due to the bias of adult-centered agency. This chapter engages with the literature on parent-led activism in South Africa. It also engages with broader activist campaigns which, due to their nature, sometimes subsume the voices of grassroots actors and the parents who tirelessly advocate for their children. The context of the use...

Enduring personal achievement throughout one’s life while serving the community’s needs into the future require sustainable changes for the education system based on the Artificial Intelligence and emerging technology. This entails forcing science education as a whole-of-society approach and building an enabling intelligent environment that allow all societal actors to critically act towards cohesive educational and research goals. Once this is done, and research is centralized at the...