Multimedia Technologies and Student Learning : A Case Study of G.S. ST Michel EPA

Information overload experienced in the information society calls for improved human information processing.Researchers around the globe are now focusing research on investigating the contributions of multimedia technologies on information processing. This research seeks to bring out the contributions of PowerPoint presentation on content recall, interpersonal interaction and attitudes towards PowerPoint presentation in communication. This research was conducted on the senior one (S1) secondary school students of GSS EPA, in Nyarugenge district, Kigali city province, Rwanda. A sample size of 180 students was selected based on Slovin’s formula from a population of 330 senior one students. Through a completely randomized experimental pretest-posttest design, the sample size was randomly assigned to three groups: The group one (G1) is the control group while group two (G2) and group three (G3) experimental groups. Students in group one (G1) were exposed to only talk-and-chalk (less interactive communication strategy) while those in group two (G2) were exposed to talk-and-chalk with PowerPoint presentation and finally students in group three (G3) were exposed only to PowerPoint presentations (a more interactive communication strategy). The researchers used questionnaires, observations and test questions to collect and analyze the data collected in order to establish the relationship between multimedia and student learning attitude

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Mount Kenya University is a private university committed to a broad-based, holistic and inclusive system of education. It has an overall goal of promoting human resource development for society’s progressive good. The university has adopted several international best practices in its core functions, which has enabled its students and faculty win awards, thus positioning itself as a centre of excellence. At its main campus in Thika town in the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, the university is transforming a hitherto industrial town into an educational hub. At the same time, it is widening access to higher education for the larger East African Community through a well-structured network of campuses. The university also offers a wide-range of academic and professional courses, through various flexible modes that include virtual learning. The award-winning university library and the imposing Chancellors Tower and Senate Plaza at Thika Main Campus make the university unique. The university’s distinct blue and light yellow corporate colours are a byword for academic excellence to many students and potential employees looking for an increasingly competitive, well-trained manpower. An empowered division of student welfare services continuously re-engineers and positions itself to unlock any emerging talents among the students through diversified programmes and career orientations, research, international linkages and talent searches. Put together, these factors have etched Mount Kenya University’s position as the leader in quality higher education provision in the region. Indeed, to borrow the tagline coined by an alumnus - “My University, My pride, My future”- the university continues to help thousands of ambitious, discerning people to scale the heights of education

Knowledge trends that will recreate a smart world: a case study of Mount Kenya University

In a world of fast knowledge development, none of us will have the capability to know much of anything at all. The most important skill we will have will be the ability to go out to get the right knowledge for the right purpose at the right time. We want to have a world of just in time knowledge. This leads to massive career specialization fostering greater fragmentation of skills, and thus greater competition in the marketplace for niche-oriented skills. Since we are reaching a world in which everything around us is getting plugged into everything else and manufacturing is fundamentally changing. Mount Kenya University has applied fundamental structures to the new generation that prefers to get work done in odd hours, using technology: they care less about structures. They define their lives not by what they do for a living, but what they like to do. This study intends to establish the current trends Mount Kenya University has applied in checking on Exponential growth of knowledge. The study aims at giving findings on the challenges to be encountered in giving the services on its esteem users and knowledge networks. The study will target three Mount Kenya university campuses namely Mombasa, Malindi and Virtual campuses. The target sample will be three hundred users out of a population of three thousand users. The technique to be used will be simple random sampling where respondents will be selected to fill questionnaires that will be placed to collect the data

An Assessment of the Factors Contributing to Poor Performance in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) in Karai zone, Kikuyu sub county, Kiambu county.

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