It is vital for knowledge workers to utilise social media tools to enhance knowledge sharing practices and the adoption of these collaborative tools in higher learning institutions. This study investigated the extent to which social media tools are utilised to enhance knowledge sharing practices among knowledge workers at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania. The study conducted semi-structured interview with the NM-AIST library staff and Information and Communication Technology Resource Centre (ICT-RC) personnel in 2014. The study found that, the utilisation of social media tools to enhance knowledge sharing among knowledge workers is still in its early stages in higher learning institutions in Tanzania. However, there was much interest amongst respondents for integrating and utilising social media tools to support knowledge sharing in higher learning institutions. The findings indicated that: social media tools can be used to enhance knowledge sharing practices; however, face to face mechanism, Google Mail, and Google Drive were indicated as main mechanisms to enhance knowledge sharing practices in higher learning institutions. Knowledge workers at the NM-AIST shared knowledge to facilitate teaching and learning activities, research and innovation; however knowledge sharing practices occur when needs arise. The study revealed the lack of knowledge sharing culture documented at the NM-AIST. The study has recommended the following: proper training for knowledge workers, employment of skilled and experienced knowledge workers, provision of full support (motivation), provide support to individual users. Application of social media tools which are very familiar and simple to use, establishment of a good relationship between knowledge workers and the management, as well as with schools and departments in higher learning institutions. Additionally, the study recommends the provision of adequate social media tools to facilitate knowledge diffusion within institutions. / Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Information Science / MIT / Unrestricted

This research study investigated the effect of job engagement to organisational stress and the employees’ intention to quit among administrative personnel at the University of Fort Hare. The main objectives of this study were determining the effects of organisational stress on employees’ intention to quit, examining the role of job engagement as a moderator of the relationship between organisational stress and employees’ intention to quit, and providing results that would lead to a deeper understanding of the nature and extent of the relationship between organisational stress and intention to quit. A survey method was adopted for this study. A questionnaire comprising of four sections: biographical information, ERI questionnaire for stress, turnover intention, and UWES scale, was administered to non-academic support personnel of the University of Fort Hare in all three campuses namely Alice, Bhisho, and East London. Simple random sampling was used to select the participants. The literature reviewed displayed a great need for managers to understand organisational stress and its causes, and how to manage and cope with stress so as to avoid losing employees, especially highly competent employees. The study yielded results that show that there are interrelationships amongst the three variables, and that job engagement does moderate the relationship between organisational stress and employees’ intention to quit.

A qualitative collective case study explored variables that had an effect on decisions to pursue postsecondary education for twelve Cambodian Americans; the meanings they ascribed to engagement in the postsecondary educational process; factors that had an influence on selection of an institute of higher education; and self-described challenges and efforts to overcome challenges in the educational process. Results indicate Cambodian refugee parents supported their children's educational aspirations and nine of twelve respondents are currently engaged in or plan higher education, and one respondent plans vocational postsecondary education. Most respondents who lived in an ethnic enclave chose careers that contribute to the collective paradigm and have a positive sense of identity. Respondents identified academic challenges in English writing, vocabulary, and in higher mathematics. Female respondents cited desires for independence and self-determination as rationale for higher educational aspirations while males cited a desire to improve family quality of life. Respondents rarely received guidance counseling sufficient to support educational endeavors. Most attended community college and chose transfer universities that would allow them to live with relatives. Attaining fluency in Khmer supported academic achievement as did close relationships with instructors and teaching methodologies compatible with collectivistic cultural paradigms. Personal standards of achievement and motivational strategies were important to academic success and a connection between religious association, collectivism, and being male was in evidence.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andreia Bissaro.pdf: 348273 bytes, checksum: 05e6c6e08ccb3c0b770af9521a3e26bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-02-11 / The objective of this work, which is inserted in the research line of University, Teaching and Teacher s Formation, is to investigate teacher s educational practices. The individuals of this study are the teachers of the pedagogy course at a private institution in the city of Campinas, and the students of pedagogy of the same institution that teach or that have already taught in another moment in the primary education. By means of questionnaires, we could survey if those individuals discuss with their students about issues related with the development of a critical attitude about what can be seen or listened in the television, specially about the consumerism transmitted on this mean of communication. We could verify that the development of this attitude is deficient in the educational practices of those individuals. However, they feel the need to develop such attitude, but sometimes they do not know how to make it. We understand that television, and overall, the television advertising, have the purpose to create demand for induced wants and to influence the consumers decisions. The idea of consuming frequently transmitted by the television is transformed as the solution to all problems. In this context, the education must be enrolled in a deep critical analysis about the way to deal with reality. By doing this, it can be possible to change the way teachers educate their students, in the face of the consumerism society. We point out the importance of teachers to pay attention about the television an about the consume exacerbation transmitted on this media. Teachers must pay attention not only in the way to watch it but also in a way to study it pedagogically. / O objetivo do presente estudo, inserido na linha de pesquisa Universidade, Doc?ncia e forma??o de professores, ? investigar a pr?tica pedag?gica dos professores. Os sujeitos deste estudo s?o os professores do Curso de Pedagogia de uma Institui??o Particular localizada na cidade de Campinas e os alunos da mesma Institui??o, que de modo geral lecionam ou que em outro momento lecionaram na Educa??o B?sica. Por meio da aplica??o de question?rios, verificamos se os sujeitos discutem com seus alunos quest?es que abordam o desenvolvimento de um pensamento cr?tico sobre o que se v? e o que se ouve na televis?o, em especial sobre os apelos consumistas anunciados nesse meio. Constatamos que o desenvolvimento desse pensamento ? de certa forma prec?rio na pr?tica pedag?gica realizada pelos sujeitos, no entanto, eles sentem necessidades de desenvolver tais pensamentos, mas nem sempre sabem como realizar. Entendemos que a televis?o e sobretudo a publicidade veiculada nesse meio, tem como prop?sito administrar as vontades e as decis?es dos consumidores. A id?ia de consumo freq?entemente veiculada pela televis?o ? transformada em solu??o para todos os problemas. Nesse contexto, a educa??o precisa ser envolvida numa profunda reflex?o cr?tica na sua maneira de ver a realidade, para que assim seja poss?vel uma mudan?a na forma de educar os alunos, frente a essa sociedade de consumo. Ressaltamos a import?ncia dos professores em atentarem para a televis?o e para a exacerba??o do consumo instalada nessa m?dia, n?o somente de modo a espect?-la, mas tamb?m de modo a estud?-la pedagogicamente.

Information literacy skills among university students have become a necessity rather than the norm. With the increase of information resources, the need for information skills among university students is important for their continued access to, and retrieval of, information. The purpose of this research was to investigate information literacy skills and competencies among incoming first-year undergraduate students in institutions of higher learning in Kenya, with special reference to the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. The objectives of the study were; to identify the types and formats of resources that incoming undergraduate students are aware of, to determine whether the incoming undergraduates are aware of search strategies for both print and electronic/online resources, to determine whether incoming undergraduate students possess basic information technology skills, to find out whether incoming undergraduate students know information retrieval tools and their use, and to determine whether incoming students are aware of intellectual property and copyrighted materials and their ethical use. The study adopted a quantitative approach and used the case study research method. The study targeted first year incoming undergraduate students at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa for the academic year 2013/2014. 137 incoming undergraduate students participated in the study. Data was collected by using self-administered questionnaires. Quantitative data was coded and analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Qualitative data generated form open-ended questions was presented in narrative form under respective subheadings. The finding of the study observed that: (a) Incoming first-year students have limited knowledge of strategies used to search for information. (b) The incoming first-year undergraduate students at the Catholic university of Eastern Africa do possess computer skills in applications such as the use of the internet and its applications (e.g. social networking sites and the World Wide Web) as well as the word-processing applications such as (Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word) and statistical applications such as SPSS. (c) Majority of incoming undergraduate university students are not familiar with the various retrieval tools and their applications. (d) The incoming first-year undergraduate students are familiar with both electronic and printed information resources. (e) A significant number of students were not aware what constitutes primary resources and secondary sources. (f) Incoming first-year undergraduate students exhibited little knowledge of issues relating to intellectual property rights and copyright. Several recommendations have been made based on the findings of the study. One of the recommendations is that the university library mandated with offering information literacy instruction to incoming students should adopt several incentives aimed at encouraging the students to attend library orientation. Another recommendation is to integrate the information literacy training with the normal university curriculum to become a credit-earning course for all incoming students. The university library should also carry out a needs assessment on information literacy training to help determine the existing gaps in the current information literacy programme. The programme should also be tailored to help in emerging issues such electronic plagiarism of information resources. The study further recommends a longitudinal study to determine whether students joining the university are able to gain information literacy skills over a period of time. / Information Science

Understanding consumers and the consuming process supply a series of benefits. Among these benefits are the support to managers in their decisions, the supply of a knowledge basis in which marketing researchers are able to analyze consumers, the support to legislators and controllers in the creation of laws and regulations regarding to the goods and service purchase and the support to the consumer in their best decision making. Besides that, the study which involves the consumer s behaviour can help us to understand the factors of the social science which influence the human s behaviour. The importance of understanding the consumer is found in the marketing definition as a human activity directed to supply needs and desires through the trade s process. In fact, the consumer s sovereignty principle is the central point in which the marketing area is based on. According to this concept, the consumer is supposed to be in the center of marketing efforts. The general knowledge of the consumer s behaviour has also a personal value. It is possible to help people to become the best consumers through the identification of factors which influence their own consuming activities, among them it can be mentioned the choice private institution of higher learning. / Compreender os consumidores e o processo de consumo proporciona uma série de benefícios. Entre eles estão: o auxílio aos gerentes em suas tomadas de decisões, o fornecimento de uma base de conhecimentos a partir dos quais pesquisadores de marketing podem analisar os consumidores, o apoio aos legisladores e controladores na criação de leis e regulamentos referentes à compra de mercadorias e serviços e o auxílio ao consumidor na tomada de melhores decisões de compra. Além disso, o estudo que envolve o comportamento dos consumidores pode auxiliar a compreender os fatores da ciência social que influenciam o comportamento humano. A importância de se compreender o consumidor é encontrada na definição de marketing como uma atividade humana direcionada a satisfazer necessidades e desejos por meio de processos de troca. Na verdade, o princípio de soberania do consumidor é o ponto central no qual se baseia a área de marketing. De acordo com esse conceito, o consumidor deve estar no centro dos esforços de marketing. O conhecimento geral do comportamento do consumidor também tem um valor pessoal. É possível ajudar as pessoas a se tornar melhores consumidores por meio da identificação de fatores que influenciam suas próprias atividades de consumo, entre elas pode-se citar a escolha de uma instituição de ensino superior privada.

Primarily, the purpose of the study was to show the immediate effects of the depression on the educational program in the United States. Secondarily, the writer hoped to encourage teachers not only to ward off another similar catastrophe but also to make the present educational program take care of the devastating effects of the past depression as far as possible.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Media Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / This study focuses on the use of the internet for students’ academic performance at institutions of higher learning. Various internet applications including search engines, online library resources and social media are evaluated to explore how best they can be used to enhance students’ performance at institutions of higher learning. This is critical to ensure that students maximise the use of technology specifically for academic purposes. Generally, students are constant users of the internet at institutions of higher learning, hence it is cardinal to examine their internet use patterns for academic purposes. Institutions of higher learning have invested in advanced technology through the internet to enhance student academic purposes. Therefore, one would expect students to use various internet applications effectively for the betterment of their studies. In this study, the researcher used both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The researcher also employed exploratory and descriptive designs. These methodologies and designs are appropriate for this study because they allow data to be collected through focus group interviews and questionnaires. Focus group interviews were employed to collect qualitative data and questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data. The researcher conducted six focus groups from three institutions of higher learning, namely the University of Limpopo, University of Venda and Tshwane University of Technology, Polokwane campus. Three hundred and forty-three (343) questionnaires were analysed for this study. These data collection tools were pertinent for this study since they assist to determine factors that influence the attitudes, opinions and behavior of the participants. Online library resources play a cardinal role in enhancing the learning process for students by providing online content which could have been difficult to access without the internet. Social media improve and enhance students’ academic performance, but students do not know how best to use it for academic purposes. Proper integration of social media into education is needed. In contrast, students prefer to use social media purely for socialising and entertainment. Despite their ability to assist students in enhancing and improving learning process, social media are, mostly not used for academic purposes. xiv Additionally, students’ use of internet search engines exposes them to an array of information which require critical online information literacy in order to choose the best information. Lastly, the study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by creating a model which will enhance and assist students to easily access academic information through the use of a mobile application. The study also provides significant information which could be used to amend and draft new ICT policies within institutions of higher learning, taking into consideration the adoption of online learning through the use various technologies including social media. / The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)

Thesis advisor: Rebecca Schendel / Thesis advisor: Geraldo R. Blanco / Internationalization, understood as the strategic integration of intercultural and international aspects into the function and process of higher education, has been of interest to nations and higher learning institutions worldwide for the past two decades. One area of particular focus within such efforts is regionalization, as exemplified by the European Bologna Process. However, regionalization is not simply a part of internationalization. There are significant differences between regionalization and internationalization in terms of objective, approach, and implications. These differences are arguably particularly salient in post-colonial contexts, yet few studies have examined the two phenomena within any African system of higher education. To address this gap, this thesis examined the factors affecting the internationalization and regionalization initiatives adopted by universities in Rwanda, paying particular attention to how the two phenomena intersect and how stakeholders perceive the potential benefits. The findings reveal that institutional representatives strongly recognize the benefits of both approaches but also experience tensions between the two. The study also highlights a number of challenges affecting the ability of Rwanda universities to adequately take advantage of the potential benefits of regionalization. / Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

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