Factors Shaping Higher Education in Botswana: A Recipe for Policy Formulation and Implementation?

Moremi, Mbiganyi; Palapye, Botswana Academic Literacy

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“…Out of the total sample of 447 students (n=447), 13% of the students (n=59) were from ABM University College, while 23% (n=103) were from BA ISAGO University, and 37% (n=166) were from Botho University and lastly, 27% (n=119) were from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology. The motivation behind the selection of private universities was informed by the lack of empirical studies on the adoption of MLDs dedicated to private universities in Botswana, evidenced by many years of research that repeatedly drew samples from mostly public universities for example in Dintoe (2018), Moremi (2018), etc., yet education in private universities continues to grow significantly (Baliyan & Moorad, 2018), hence the need to explore it further by adopting questions that are more relevant to the 21st century learning such as the use of MLDs. The comparative analysis of the demographic characteristics of respondents is reported in condensed Table 1, and the universities are arranged alphabetically.…”

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Investigating Factors Influencing Students’ Behavioral Intentions Towards Mobile Learning Devices in Higher Educational Institutions

Ditlhokwa

2022

EUR J INTERACT MULTIMED ED

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This study adopted two key variables of the technology acceptance model, thus perceived usefulness, self-efficacy, and (gratification) variable of uses and gratification theory to understand how the three variables predict students’ behavioral intentions towards the use of mobile learning devices (MLDs). The sample was drawn from 447 selected participants from four private universities in Gaborone, Botswana. The researcher analyzed the data and presented the findings by testing the suggested research model and the hypotheses through structural equation modeling. Regression analysis was carried out with SmartPLS to assess the path coefficient of the data collected for the model. The findings suggest that two of the key variables tested, thus self-efficacy and perceived usefulness of MLDs positively influenced students’ gratification and were statistically significant. However, two out of the three of the determinant variables of perceived usefulness (information seeking, and social connections) all had positive relations with students’ perceptions of gratification, and behavioral intentions towards MLDs. This study concludes that, information seeking, and social connections variables of the perceived usefulness, connote the positive relationships with students’ perceptions of gratification with MLDs. Furthermore, the findings suggest that students could improve behavioral intentions concerning the relevance of MLDs application in institutions of higher learning by applying varied MLDs at their disposal.

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Investigating Factors Influencing Students’ Behavioral Intentions Towards Mobile Learning Devices in Higher Educational Institutions

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2022

EUR J INTERACT MULTIMED ED

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A decade of quality assurance in higher education (QAiHE) within sub-Saharan Africa: a literature review based on a systematic search approach

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Bervell

2023

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Understanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives

Boughey

McKenna

2021

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Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as ‘decontextualised learners’ premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

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Factors Shaping Higher Education in Botswana: A Recipe for Policy Formulation and Implementation?

Cited by 3 publications

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Investigating Factors Influencing Students’ Behavioral Intentions Towards Mobile Learning Devices in Higher Educational Institutions

Investigating Factors Influencing Students’ Behavioral Intentions Towards Mobile Learning Devices in Higher Educational Institutions

A decade of quality assurance in higher education (QAiHE) within sub-Saharan Africa: a literature review based on a systematic search approach

Understanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives

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