http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/154 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:56:53 GMT 2026-04-21T01:56:53Z http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1106 Supporting the Construction of Programs on a Mobile Device: A Scaffolding Framework Mbogo, Chao Charity; Blake, Edwin; Suleman, Hussein Computer programming is a difficult subject for most novice learners. Providing support that complements classroom learning could contribute to tackling the difficulties. Due to the ubiquity of mobile devices, such support can be provided by scaffolding the construction of programs on a mobile device. In order to design such a mobile intervention, learners’ needs and limitations of mobile devices need to be placed at the center of the design process. This paper combines learners’ needs and limitations of mobile devices to identify scaffolding strategies. Identification of scaffolding strategies is based on a scaffolding framework. Using specific examples, this paper will then show how the scaffolding strategies have been implemented on a mobile phone. Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1106 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1083 Research Matters: The Problem of non-Research-Intensive Institutions in Developing Countries Mbogo, Dr Chao Charity What if a PhD graduate starts their academic career in an environment that is not research-intensive? Such is the environment in most developing countries. This presentation will address the current situation of research facing institutions in Kenya. I will also present some suggestions that could be implemented in order to propel the research quality in institutions in developing countries. Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1083 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1081 Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA) Venter, Anja; Mbogo, Chao Engaging with open development (OD) necessitates learning in which people appropriate and adopt new technologies and socio-technical practices. This typically involves informal learning (i.e. outside of formal education), and will differ between reading relationships (as a user of OD resources) and writing relationships (for full ownership or authorship of OD). If potential participants are unable to connect with existing learning networks, OD initiatives will have limited impact. Communities that aim to be 'open' may exclude people by virtue of race, language, literacies, gender, sexuality, phone/computer ownership, access to Internet or other aspects of identity. This project will explore the situated material conditions and informal learning practices that surround processes of inclusion in (and exclusion from) OD initiatives. The project will develop more detailed ethnographic and socio-material accounts of the informal learning processes and outcomes in such encounters. It will foreground the ways that global inequities of infrastructure, default identities and the cultural practices often associated with openness can “format” participation in subtle but significant ways. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.kemu.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1081 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z