The adoption of blended learning to widen access, reduce cost, and improve the quality of education is becoming prevalent in higher education in sub-Saharan Africa and Tanzania in particular. University of Dar es Salaam and the Open University of Tanzania offer various blended learning courses using Moodle system via regional centres scattered across the country. Despite the success of these co...

In typical teaching scenarios students and lecturers are involved. Nowadays, however, learning management systems (LMS) are used intensively to foster communication between students and lecturers and so reduce the need to meet in person in order to communicate. Additionally an increased involvement of practitioners and companies in teaching efforts at universities seems desirable for a variety ...

In online learning, feedback to students is important in their progress. Assessments are often final or summative assessments that do not allow the student to adjust or improve their learning progress. Assessment, however, takes valuable time. This paper describes how using the tools available in a LMS can assist faculty in assessing student work and provide helpful feedback to students in an o...

An e-learner’s characteristics are very important variables with regards to educational performance and the e-learning environment. This study suggests a research model, based on a successful e-learning model, which presents the relationship between e-learner’s self-regulated learning strategies and the quality perception in LMS (learning management systems). This research model focuses on self...

Besides game-based learning, gamification is an upcoming trend in education, studied in various empirical studies and found in many major learning management systems. Employing a newly developed qualitative instrument for assessing gamification in a system, we studied five popular LMS for their specific implementations. The instrument enabled experts to extract affordances for gamification in t...

It is well known that personalized tutoring helps to improve the learning process and to obtain better results. With this aim we are developing a model including the learning styles of the students. We based our model on the Felder-Silverman Learning Styles Model. According to the student learning style, the instruction is established by a proposed set of rules. To prove our model we propose to...

This work tends to broaden the knowledge about the learning process in LMSs from an EDM approach. We examine students’ interactions with Moodle and their relationship with achievement. We analyzed the log data gathered from a Moodle 2.0 course corresponding to the different interaction patterns of 140 undergraduate students with the LMS in an authentic learning context. We found out 4 different...

this paper investigates the connection between market valuation anda type of the merger (stock, cash) using real options setup. i solveexplicitly for the timing and terms of cash mergers in two deferent settingsto demonstrate that cash mergers generally occur at low marketvaluations, whereas stock mergers that may be observed at both low andhigh valuations; the result holds with some dierences...