Work place: versity of Nairobi, School of Computing & Informatics, Kenya
E-mail: eomwenga@uonbi.ac.ke
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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Information Systems, Multimedia Information System, Social Information Systems
Biography
Elijah I. Omwenga holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nairobi in the area of Information Systems.
He is engaged in research on deployment of low bandwidth mobile applications as well as integration of ICT in learning institutions.
Prof. Omwenga is the President of the African Association for Teacher Educators and the African representative to the World Forum for Associations of Teacher Educators (WFATE). He is not only a seasoned Software Engineer but also an author of over thirty (30) scientific papers in reputable journals and publications, tens of technical papers, and an author of three books.
By Stephen T. Njenga Robert O. Oboko Elijah I. Omwenga Elizaphan M. Maina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2017.10.03, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2017
Intelligent agents have been used in collaborative learning. However, they are rarely used to facilitate group interactions in collaborative m-learning environments. In view of this, the paper discusses the use of intelligent agents in facilitating collaborative learning in mobile learning environments. The paper demonstrates how to design intelligent agents and integrate them in collaborative mobile learning environments to allow group learners to improve their levels of group knowledge construction. The design was implemented in a collaborative mobile learning system running on Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) platform. The application was used in some experiments to investigate the effects of those facilitated interactions on the level of group knowledge construction. The results showed improved levels of group knowledge construction in instances where the facilitations were enabled compared to where they were disabled. The paper concludes that the use of intelligent agents in facilitating learner group interactions in collaborative mobile learning environments improves the levels of group knowledge construction. For future work, the use of intelligent agents can be tested in other areas of group interactions to enhance group learning.
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