What do we know about Computing Education in Africa? A Systematic Review of Computing Education Research Literature

IT Sanusi, FG Deriba - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11849, 2024 - arxiv.org
Noticeably, Africa is underrepresented in the computing education research (CER)
community. However, there has been some effort from the researchers in the region to …

Real-world deployment and evaluation of kwame for science, an ai teaching assistant for science education in west africa

G Boateng, S John, S Boateng, P Badu… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - Springer
Africa has a high student-to-teacher ratio which limits students' access to teachers for
learning support such as educational question answering. In this work, we extended …

eKichabi v2: Designing and Scaling a Dual-Platform Agricultural Technology in Rural Tanzania

A Raghunath, AL Metzger, H Easton, XM Liu… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Although farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are accessing feature phones and smartphones at
historically high rates, they face challenges finding a robust network of agricultural contacts …

Broadening participation in computing: Experiences of an online programming workshop for african students

E Tshukudu, S Olaosebikan, K Omeke… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As computing education grows rapidly across the globe, there is an increasing need to
broaden participation and engage all students in computing, particularly those from …

Autograd: Automated grading software for mobile game assignments in suacode courses

PS Annor, E Kayang, S Boateng… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Automatic grading systems have been in existence since the turn of the half-century. Several
systems have been developed in the literature with either static analysis and dynamic …

Kwame for science: An ai teaching assistant based on sentence-bert for science education in west africa

G Boateng, S John, A Glago, S Boateng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Africa has a high student-to-teacher ratio which limits students' access to teachers.
Consequently, students struggle to get answers to their questions. In this work, we extended …

Leveraging AI to Advance Science and Computing Education across Africa: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

G Boateng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07397, 2024 - arxiv.org
Across the African continent, students grapple with various educational challenges,
including limited access to essential resources such as computers, internet connectivity …

Culture in Design of Coding Toolkits for Young Learners in Developing Economies in Africa: A Review

KC Cheruiyot, KJ Chepngetich - Current Journal of …, 2023 - research.send4journal.com
With the increasing importance and demand of coding skills in today's digital world,
developing economies in Africa are putting every effort to include coding education in their …

Broadening Participation in Computing: Experiences of the Hour of Code in an African Country

E Tshukudu, M Kallia, K Childs, W Darragh - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
To increase participation in formal computer science education in underrepresented regions
like Africa, an initiative called CSEdBotswana was launched in Botswana. To take an initial …