tional Journals as follows:-
Paper I: “An Interactive e-Learning Management System (e-LMS): A Solution to
Tanzanian Secondary Schools’ Education”
Abstract— Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has been integrated
in education in many developing and developed countries alike, but the use of ICT in Tanzanian schools is dismal. Many Tanzanian secondary schools have no computers. The few schools with computers use them primarily for secretarial services and com- puter literacy training.
The Tanzanian education system at other levels like secondary school level has to un- dergo substantial transformation, underscored by the growing application of new in- formation and communication technology. This paper presents the e-readiness sur- vey result from secondary schools in Tanzania. The paper also suggests how Tanzania can make use of the few present ICT resources to support and improve teaching and learning functions to improve performance and acquisition of knowledge by using e- Learning Management System (e-LMS).
Keywords— e-Learning, ICT, Object-Oriented, Participatory design, Presentations:
“An Interactive e-Learning Management System (e-LMS): A Solution to Tanzanian Secondary Schools’ Education” was presented on May 2007 and included in the con- ference proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WA- SET), 21st International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, CESSE, Volume 21, May 2007, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-975- 01752-0-6.
“An Interactive e-Learning Management System (e-LMS): A Solution to Tanzanian Secondary Schools’ Education” paper was included in World Academy of Science, En- gineering and Technology (WASET), International Journal of Social Sciences Volume 1 Number 4, Pages 250 – 253.
Paper II: “Strategies for Developing e-LMS for Tanzanian Secondary Schools” Abstract— Tanzania secondary schools in rural areas are geographically and socially
isolated, hence face a number of problems in getting learning materials resulting in poor performance in National examinations. E-learning as defined to be the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for supporting the educational processes has motivated Tanzania to apply ICT in its education system. There has been effort to improve secondary school education using ICT through several projects.
ICT for e-learning to Tanzania rural secondary school is one of the research projects conceived by the University of Dar-es-Salaam through its College of Engineering and Technology. The main objective of the project is to develop a tool to enable ICT sup- port rural secondary school.
The project is comprehensive with a number of components, one being development of e-learning management system (e-LMS) for Tanzania secondary schools. This paper presents strategies of developing e-LMS. It shows the importance of integrating ac- tion research methodology with the modelling methods as presented by model driven architecture (MDA) and the usefulness of Unified Modelling Language (UML) on the issue of modelling. The benefit of MDA will go along with the development based on software development life cycle (SDLC) process, from analysis and requirement phase through design and implementation stages as employed by object oriented system analysis and design approach. The paper also explains the employment of open source code reuse from open source learning platforms for the context sensitive development of the e-LMS for Tanzania secondary schools.
Keywords—Action Research Methodology, OOSA&D, MDA, UML, Open Source
LMS.
Presentations:
“Strategies for Developing e-LMS for Tanzanian Secondary Schools” was presented on October 2007 and included in the conference proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), 26th International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, CESSE, Volume 24, October 2007, Nice, France, ISSN 1307 – 6884. This paper presents strategies of developing e-LMS.
“Strategies for Developing e-LMS for Tanzanian Secondary Schools” paper was in- cluded in World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), Inter- national Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 2, Number 3, Pages 145 – 150.
e-Learning, defined as the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for sup- porting the educational process, has motivated Tanzania to apply ICT in its education systems. Tanzanian secondary schools which are geo- graphically and socially isolated face a number of problems, including a way to get learning mate- rials. The impact of these problems is poor per- formance in National Examinations. This poor performance however is most noted in science and mathematics. The problem in getting lear- ning materials can be reduced by employing ICT.
This research developed an interactive e-lear- ning management system (e-LMS) to be used by Tanzanian secondary schools. Tanzania Seconda- ry Schools e-Learning (TanSSe-L) system is the name adopted for an interactive e-LMS develo- ped. The research is aimed at supporting teach- ing and learning functions by allowing for the creation and storage of learning materials, ma- king them available, easily accessed and sharable by students from different secondary schools in Tanzania. It is a contextdriven research work of knowledge production in a specific context for application. Initially, the research work focused on two selected pilot schools; Kibaha Secon-
dary School and Wali-ul-Asr Girls’ Seminary in Kibaha town, Pwani region. Features of the TanSSe-L system represent the standard form of any secondary school registered by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
The development of the TanSSe-L system made use of software engineering discipline. The research used Unified Modelling Language (UML) and integrated Object-Oriented System Analysis and Design (OOSA&D) and Model Dri- ven Architecture (MDA) to address the System Development Life Cycle (SLDC) in a systemic way. UML design class diagram (DCD) is a Plat- form Independent Model (PIM) that was trans- formed into a Platform Specific Model (PSM) in MDA for implementation. Implementation made use of open source LMS to help generate a timely solution to TanSSe-L system develop- ment. In this specific context, focus group dis- cussion as inspired by action research metho- dology was used. The research evolved into a triple helix process in close cooperation with other stakeholders. Finally, it is considered that replication and mirroring will make learning ma- terials highly available to end-users.