Lecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawi

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dc.contributor.authorChawinga, Winner Dominic
dc.contributor.authorZinn, Sandy
dc.date.accessioned03/03/2017 12:13
dc.date.available03/03/2017 12:13
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe study reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by lecturers in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at Mzuzu University (MZUNI), Mzuzu, Malawi. By distributing a questionnaire to 19 lecturers, conducting follow-up interviews with seven lecturers and analysing the curricula, the study showed that between 10 (58.8%) and 13 (76.5%) lecturers use Wikipedia, YouTube, blogs, Google Apps and Twitter to accomplish various academic activities, such as handing out assignments to students; receiving feedback from students; uploading lecture notes; searching for content; storing lecture notes; and carrying out collaborative educational activities. The study adopted the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (Taylor and Todd 1995) and the theory's elements that strongly affected lecturers' use of the technologies according to the results included attitude and perceived behaviour control. The study also found that poor Internet access remains the key stumbling block towards a successful adoption of Web 2.0 technologies by lecturers at MZUNI. To this end, the study recommends that the newly established Department of ICT Directorate with support from MZUNI management should install campuswide Wi-Fi and improve Internet bandwidth so that lecturers' access to the Internet is not limited to their offices but rather is available in the teaching rooms across the campus.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationChawinga, W. D. & Zinn, S. (2015) Lecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawi. Mousaion, 23(4): 62-85en_US
dc.identifier.issn0024-2594
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2599
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajim.v18i1.694
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUNISA Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article published available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajim.v18i1.694
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectWeb 2.0en_US
dc.subjectInformation scienceen_US
dc.subjectUniversityen_US
dc.subjectLectureen_US
dc.titleLecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawien_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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