Role Of Computer Serious Games in Education and Training

Mahmoud Abaza; Ora Steyn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1592–1599

The advantages of serious games are weighed against the disadvantages to discover if serious games would be a worthwhile investment and tool for educators and learners. The chance of success for the serious games industry is discussed and areas for...

Challenges Facing IT in Educational institutions in Uganda.

Mahmoud Abaza; Geoffrey Frank Olet

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 90–94

Developing countries have many daunting challenges that can threaten the placement of education development on the national priority. In Uganda crucial information that would help formulate education policy is not captured at “the source” in...

Distance Education: An Ultimate Subject for Teachers and Students

Osama Shata; Mahmoud Abaza

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 282–288

In this paper, we use the term "distance education" to refer to the situation where computer-mediated technology is used as the main delivering media of courses of study, and where the teacher and the student are physically in two different...

Topics: Computers, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Curriculum, Professional Development

Use of mobile SMS technology for Information Management and data Collection in Education

Mahmoud Abaza; Mahfooz Walizada

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1–5

This paper investigates the efficiency and effectiveness of using mobile SMS for data collection, information management and decision making purposes. The focus of the paper is to study the importance and needs of an effective information and data...

Topics: research