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Technical vocation education and training (TVET) in changing times, a critical view of prior learning as a link to entrepreneurship and employment
(Strathmore University, 2021)For many countries, lifelong learning is a key component to building the human capital that is innovative and competitive in the fast-changing global economy. Most people’s learning take place through non-formal and informal ... -
Freedom of education: an Aristotelian interpretation of the Kenya Basic Education Act No.14 of 2013
(Strathmore University, 2020)Aristotle in his educational ideals as presented in his Politics and Nichomachean Ethics, believed that education was necessary for a fulfilled life. For him, the thinking and practice of an educator has to have a clear ... -
ICT knowledge transfer for development in the non-formal education: a case of jua kali sector in Kenya.
(Strathmore University, 2021)One of the millennium development goals is the attainment of Education For All (EFA).Attainment of Education For All means inclusion of those in the informal sector in the skill training programmes. Large gaps in skill ... -
Digital credit for economic development, a case of ISBI’s model of lending to micro-entrepreneurs in the Eastland’s of Nairobi
(Strathmore University, 2021)It is evident that more people are connected continue to be connected the Internet than ever before. There are various digital devices that are used nowadays to connect to the internet for work and other aspects of life. ... -
Lessons learnt from the 2014 West Africa ebola viral disease (EVD) outbreak: economic, political and social impacts of disease outbreaks
(Strathmore University, 2018)In many disease outbreaks, their effects can invariably be measured in both direct and indirect terms; directly by observable, measurable outcomes and indirectly by looking for knock-on effects post the disease outbreak. ... -
The Need for marker-less computer vision techniques for human gait analysis on video surveillance to detect concealed firearms
(Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers, 2018)Crimes involving the use of firearms have been on the increase in the past few years. One of the measures adopted to prevent these crimes is the use of CCTV operators at video surveillance centers to detect persons carrying ... -
An Automatic number plate recognition system for car park management
(International Journal of Computer Applications Online, 2017-10)Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an internationally recognized methodology that is used in vehicle identification. ANPR systems allow for real time recognition of a vehicle’s number plate. Vehicle parking is ... -
A Universal mobile money transfer platform
(International Journal of Computer Applications Online, 2017-10)Mobile money transfer is among some of the fastest growing sectors in Information. It provides openness to all mobile service providers; any user from any mobile service provider is able to use the solution. It allows for ... -
A System for recommending rental properties
(Czech society for system integration, 2017)This paper presents an implementation of recommended technology to online search of rental properties. In particular, the paper uses the preference-based search approach combined with a technique called example-critiquing. ... -
A Prototype for authentication of secondary school certificates: a case of Kenya certificate of secondary education
(Globeedu Group, 2017)The demand for educated labor force has increased in developing countries like Kenya. Owing to this fact, more often Universities and training colleges in Kenya enroll students who want to further their education. Meeting ... -
Database marketing strategies in the industry: case of Kenyan organizations
(North American Institute of Science and Information Technology, 2013-03)Problem Statement: There are several organizations in both the private and public sector that collect information about their customers but do not proactively leverage on it. In most cases, the collected information would ... -
The application of real - time voice recognition to control critical mobile device operations
(International Journal of Research Studies in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2015-07)The consistent increase in the number and ownership population of mobile device s introduces a variety of limitations. A set of this limitations revolve around interactivity. The overly dependent ... -
Afya App : the mobile personal health management platform
(IJRSSET, 2015-01)The provision of Health services in developing countries is hampered by various challenges. One area that has not been fully ventured into is formulating a holistic way to help improve health of people by enabling use ... -
Personalizing E-learning curriculum using: reversed roulette wheel selection algorithm
(IEEE, 2014-09)E-learning poses a challenge in a pedagogical perspective such as finding ways on how to motivate the students to learn in spite of the absence of a human instructor. Many researchers in the field have proposed and implemented ... -
A knowledgebase model for Islamic inheritance
(IISTE, 2014)The dotcom generation has dramatically amplified the pitch of information gathering as well as dissemination. However, not all areas are experiencing the same breeze of efficacy. For instance, in this thesis we looked at ... -
Applying reinforcement and mastery learning: how it works based on personalized e-learning curriculum?
(The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), 2014)Many researchers in the field of personalized learning or topic sequencing have proposed and implemented various mechanisms to improve the learning process with the main objectives of maximizing learning and dynamically ... -
Improving learning throughput in e-learning using interactive-cognitive based assessment
(The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), 2014)An e-learning website is not sufficient to fully attain the results of online education. There also is a need to align the educational objectives into the design of the assessment to improve and develop cognition, critical ... -
Reversed Roulette Wheel Selection Algorithms (RWSA) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for personalizing and improving e-Learning system: the case study and its implementation
(The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), 2015)Various mechanisms to improve learning process with the objective of maximizing learning and dynamically selecting the best teaching operation to achieve learning goals have been done in the field of personalized learning. ... -
Typicality degrees to measure relevance of the physiological signals
Physiological measures have a key advantage as they can provide an insight into human feelings that the subjects may not even be consciously aware of. However, modeling user affective states through pysiology still remains ... -
Fallacies in policy and strategies to introduce sex education in the Basic Education curriculum in Kenya
Since the introduction of the 8-4-4 system of education in 1985, many Kenyans accepted the new system including religious institutions. However, the introduction of Social Education and Ethics in the curriculum was not ...
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