| dc.description.abstract | In a bid to satisfy students’ academic needs, Universities in Uganda are targeting to provide
adequate education materials. The National Council for Higher Education, set conditions
which if achieved, education materials are considered to be adequate. The conditions include
computer-student ratio which should be 1:20, essential textbooks-student’s ratio should be
1:5 and two subscriptions to national and International procurement journals. However,
universities are facing educational challenges such as high students computer ratios,
inadequate staffing, inadequate classroom space, which negatively relate to achieving
adequate education materials.
With the above challenges, universities are required to adopt to new mechanisms of
interacting with students. Information and communication technology (ICT) has proved to be
an essential component of the educational system in overcoming these challenges. This
research focuses on the development of a framework which enables the use of mobile devices
in the learning process as a way of overcoming the above challenges. The research was based
in Uganda Martyrs University.
The research was achieved through use of the mixed research methodology. In this
methodology, qualitative data from was obtained from systems administrators using oral
interviews, while quantitative data was collected from students and lecturers using a survey
questionnaire. Qualitative and quantitative data collected was analysed using qualitative data
analysis and quantitative data analysis methods respectively. The analysis of the data helped
to derive the requirements that guided in the development of components of the proposed
framework. The linkage of the framework components was based on the theories that relate
to the pedagogy. Development of framework was based on the design research methodology,
which has three phases. These phases are; Analysis and exploration phase, Design and
construction phase and Evaluation and reflection phase. However, due to constraint of
inability to identify a mobile learning expert, the framework was not evaluated. Hence as part
of future work, the research recommends implementation and validation of the proposed
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