Educational Technology

The configuration, the storage and the operations form the important aspects in the management of a laboratory and workshop. These three aspects plays a vital role in the management of all activities and work schedules in the anticipation to simplify and move smoothly and optimized the work force and the time spent to resolve and produce an effective service output. To achieve all of these three aspects and form them as a regular activity to all staff in the aspects of the configuration of The Storage General Rules, the Equipments Concept, Retention of Merchandise Based on their Date of Expiry, Retention of Special Services Maintenance Tools (Sst), Stock Master Maintenance system, First in first out system (Fifo) , the 5S Principles And Kaizen are being practiced whereas for the purpose of storage and handling, the principles and work steps such as Customer Request Order (CRO) and Dead Stock are used as a work activity guide.

Background: In this emerging era of global, fast-paced knowledge-based economy, universities, as major centres of learning and research, are becoming increasingly important as sources of ideas, knowledge, skills, innovation and technological advances. These ideas can be turned into new products, processes and systems needed to drive their respective national economies, and thus placing universities at the centre of the national innovation systems. Consequently, commercialization of research outputs from universities to industry has become an area of strong policy interest in African countries. Objective: To assess initiatives to commercialize research outputs by Kenyan universities Design: Cross-sectional study of public and private universities Setting: Seventeen well established universities (15 public and 2 private), all accredited by the Commission for University Education, Kenya. Participants: Deans, Registrars, Directors or Deputy (Directors/Vice Chancellors), responsible for research and development. Results: All the surveyed universities had a strategic plan; though not all had innovation and commercialization as part of it. More than half of the seventeen surveyed universities indicated to have established designated offices for fostering commercialization. Majority had guidelines on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), which advocate for IP to be co-owned by researcher/university. University-industry linkages are weak. Most universities are taking precursory steps to incentivize and encourage entrepreneurial activities among their academic staff and students, even though the level of resources devoted to them is low. Conclusions: It is recommended that building capacity in entrepreneurship among staff and students and committing more resources to Research and Development (R&D) activities hold potential to increased commercialization of university research outputs in Kenya.

Abstract. The article focuses on the problem of teaching English for Specific Purposes for non-language students, particularly, assessing the role of supporting schemes at ESP classes for Physical Culture students. The goal of the research is to develop supporting schemes and to assess their role for training students’ speaking skills. Supporting schemes are found to create conditions for practical application of the acquired material and are a stimulus to students’ speech activity being supporting visuals for the development of speaking skills. Supporting schemes are determined to have a positive influence upon students’ state. They increase the level of students’ performance and decrease the level of high reactive anxiety. Key words: English for Specific Purposes, visual aids, supporting skills, students’ performance, the level of anxiety.

One management which does not possess a systematic or a fully completed system will cause the installation of a laboratory or workshop to not to operate smoothly. The venue selected to undergo this research was at the Institut Kemahiran Tinggi Belia Negara (IKTBN) ( ‘National Youth Advance Skill Institute’). Among the issues faced is in regards to the duration of time taken in handling the tender process which at times consumed a too long duration. Besides that, the supervision during the period of installation or maintenance is vital to ensure that the output of quality work meet the specification as in the contract. The instrument of this research uses the Interview and observation methods. The findings of this research analysis conducted had successfully revealed all of the information required. Via audio recordings recorded at the time of the interview being conducted, that is the current and thereafter information regarding the installation activity in the tender management process. Lastly, all the management’s task in respect of the installation conducted require procedures or careful steps to ensure that issues do not arise and even if there is any, it can be averted.

This study will focus on discuss the role of discussion forums in developing and keep on communities of e-learning as well as fostering and strengthened students’ learning skills and knowledge along with the instructors .It conducted on an online course at the University of Baghdad. The course was delivered via Moodle to using discussion forums as a major communication tool. A survey assessing students’ attitudes as a core factor toward discussion forums was occurring. The outcomes presented a positive attitude toward discussion forums and their role in developing and enhancing students’ study skills and knowledge. This study proposes strategies for implementing successful discussion forums.

Open Reusability Benchmark identifies a number of factors that are required to be present in a Learning Object Repository. A repository must comply with these factors to define a comprehensive and openly reusable Learning Object Repository. A number of existing systems that actually use a database of learning objects and their internal architecture is somewhat available are incorporated in this survey. Each of the studied system is then measured on these benchmarks and a critical analysis is performed on the basis of results.

Reading motivation is one of the most important factors, receives the special focus in foreign language teaching. Research has suggested that explicit reading strategies can be taught to students and improving their reading motivation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of reciprocal teaching strategy on reading motivation. Reciprocal teaching strategy consists of four basic reading strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. Cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies are the reciprocal teaching strategies used to enhance students’ reading motivation. This paper will discuss whether ‘reciprocal teaching strategies’ enhance students reading motivation or not. This lack of good reading motivation skill is exacerbated by the central role of reading motivation in higher education success. One solution to this problem of poor reading motivation skill is the explicit teaching strategies. This paper is going to define the key words, reading motivation process, reading strategies, cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies, reading motivation and reciprocal teaching, and state relationship between reciprocal teaching and reading motivation. The findings indicated that reciprocal teaching had a significantly positive effect on the English reading motivation.

The objective of the study was to find out adolescent the knowledge and use of contraceptives in Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis. Three hundred adolescent male and female students were randomly selected from three senior high schools in the metropolis to constitute the sample for the study. The questionnaire were used to collect data. Frequency distribution and percentages were used to summarize the data. The findings from the study indicated that adolescents have much knowledge about contraceptives but a few use them. They are familiar with condoms and femidom: most of them because they are easy to use. However, parents, guardians and church members disapprove of the use of contraceptives. The researcher recommended that there should be guidance and counseling programmes in the school to counsel the adolescent students on issues concerning their reproductive health and the use of contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Learning about the different aspects of human beings as the most complicated creature in the world, has always been an issue for scientists. Unlike other creatures man is the only creature who is able to think about his own existence and has the ability to grow mentally and spiritually; all these are possible through Education. Education is transferring knowledge and skills by an educator; there are too many opinions on the way of this very act of transfer. Rumi (Molavi), the famous Iranian poet of the 7th century presented very glorious points of views on education relying on Islamic and Iranian rich knowledge. This paper is an attempt to know his ideas and educational methods through analyzing sample verses of his poems in his world-known masterpiece, “Mathnawi”. The implications for current educators will be discussed by considering his division of educational aims into general and specialized categories.

Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain at great risk for HIV infections. This study purpose was to assess effectiveness of MMT intervention in preventing infections among MSM in Nairobi. A quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control-group design with pre-and post-test was adapted. 188 MSM was randomly selected into Hoymas and Ishtar Nairobi. Tail was treatment that went to Hoymas while head was control which went to Ishtar. Findings revealed there was reduced risky behavior in experimental group between pretest –and post-test data. This study recommends MMT for psycho-behavioral personality/temperament interventions. It is cost effective; no side effects can be personalized treatment plan and incorporated in HIV treatment. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that MMT was effective in reducing risky sexual behavior among MSM. It can be tailored for individuals psychological and behavioural and as a strategy for dealing with personality and sexual decision making.