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Howard, Grant(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited (ACPI), 2017-03-16)
Information Technology (IT) is indispensable to modern, competitive organisations and is instrumental in the many changes experienced by these organisations. The paper argues that IT-related organisational change follows ...
Van Biljon, Judy; Naudé, Filistéa; Lotriet, Hugo(CIRN, 2016-11-02)
The global political environment place research institutions under increasing pressure to provide quantitative evidence of the scholarly impact of the research. Measuring impact in Community Informatics research in terms ...
van Biljon, J(The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), 2016-11-15)
Abstract Indigenous or local researchers from developing countries have not made a leading contribution to development informatics (DI) or information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research. This ...
Renaud, K; van Biljon, J(British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), 2016-07-01)
There has been a worldwide increase in the number of postgraduate students over the last few years and therefore some examiners struggle to maintain high standards of consistency, accuracy and fairness. This is especially ...
van Biljon, J; Renaud, K(The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), 2015-01-01)
In the context of assessment, two specific challenges face South African academics. The first is that their universities have experienced an unprecedented increase in postgraduate students without a concomitant increase ...
Chipangura, B; van Biljon, J; Botha, A(The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC, 2015-01-01)
Many higher education students live and operate in mobile-centric environments. The question is whether the policies of higher education
institutions (HEI) are aligned with students’ readiness for mobile technology ...
Van Biljon, J; Van der Merwe, R; Van Heerden, D(The Journal of Community Informatics, 2015-12-18)
Mobile digital literacy skills development as part of digital inclusion is compellingly relevant but exactly what the curriculum should contain is less evident. In this paper, we report on the development of a mobile digital ...
Specification plays a vital role in software engineering to facilitate the development of highly dependable software. The importance of specification in software development is to serve, amongst others, as a communication ...
In developing countries, the mobile phone market has matured in terms of subscription, penetration and mobile centric1
services. In turn, people have integrated mobile phones into their daily lives. The interaction ...
This study aims to identify the quality of knowledge management practices and
success factors of non-governmental organisations in Malawi, and their influence on
the knowledge management process.
A questionnaire-based ...
Ontologies are foundational to, and upper ontologies provide semantic integration across, the Semantic Web. Multilingualism has been shown to be a key challenge to the development of the Semantic Web, and is a particular ...
This research examined lecturers’ perspectives on the academic use of Facebook, specifically for teaching, in a higher education institution in Gauteng, South Africa. A survey research design was followed, and semi-structured ...
Non-relational database management systems address some of the limitations relational database management systems have when storing large volumes of unstructured, user generated text-based data in distributed environments. ...
Designing a usable mobile phone interface is a non-trivial task,
especially when it is intended for use by a special needs group.
The group we focus on here is composed of the elderly in
developing countries. To inform ...
de Kock, Estelle; Van Biljon, Judy; Botha, Adele(SAICSIT, 2016-09-26)
In Open Distance Learning (ODL) institutions the teaching model is moving towards fully integrated information and communication technology applications. To successfully teach or facilitate the use of technology, academics ...
This study was motivated by the need to overcome the pedagogical hindrances experienced by introductory object-oriented programming students in order to address the high attrition rate evident among novice programmers in ...
Efforts have been made by researchers to comprehend the nature and factors that contribute to the digital divide in developing countries and several attempts have been made to bridge this divide. Literature mostly investigates ...
Historically, progress in technology development has continually created new opportunities for criminal activities which, in turn, have triggered the need for the development of new security-sensitive systems. Organisations ...
Marin, Mike A; Lotriet, Hugo; Van Der Poll, John A(SAICSIT, 2015-09-28)
The Case Management Modeling and Notation (CMMN)
speci cation, published by the Object Management Group
(OMG) in 2014, describes a declarative style for modeling
business processes. The declarative nature of CMMN is ...