Student teachers' experiences of the emergency transition to online learning during the Covid-19 lockdown at a South African university

MC Maphalala, NP Khumalo… - Perspectives in …, 2021 - journals.co.za
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about an abrupt transition from face-to-
face to online learning, which caught higher education institutions off guard. Universities had …

Evaluating an evolving OAI testbed: Overview of options, building tips, and current performance

M Vilakazi, CR Burger, L Mboweni… - 2021 7th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile connectivity has become a must in both developed and developing countries. The
ability to work with new technologies, and localise them requires appropriate testbeds. This …

Television White Space Opportunities and Challenges: What Next for the Developing Countries?

M ISMAIL, M KISSAKA… - 2019 IST-Africa Week …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing countries in the sub-Saharan Africa region have a huge unused radio spectrum
in the Television broadcast band known as TV White Space (TVWS). Despite availability and …

Network performance analysis of the Limpopo TV white space (TVWS) trial network

MT Masonta, LM Kola, AA Lysko, L Pieterse… - AFRICON …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Television white spaces (TVWS) refers to vacant channels in the ultra-high frequency (UHF)
band between 470 and 690 MHz assigned for television broadcast and can be used …

Rural broadband access via clustered collaborative communication

S Agarwal, S De - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Broadband penetration in rural areas of the developing countries is significantly low. The
unique challenges in enabling rural connectivity are sparsity of population locations and …

Readily available technologies for building community resilience: Lessons from India during the Covid-19 pandemic

S Ahuja, A Sadreddin, YE Chan - The Journal of …, 2021 - openjournals.uwaterloo.ca
Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have played a pivotal role in
assisting communities with building resilience by responding to and recovering from crises …

TV white space based wireless broadband internet connectivity: A case study with implementation details and performance analysis

MZ Islam, JF O'Hara, D Shadoan… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even at the current age of sophisticated communication systems, remote rural communities
with low user density throughout the world lack broadband Internet service of good quality …

Instilling eLearning culture towards recipients of a rurally disadvantaged institution of higher learning

B Makena, N Mpahla - International Journal of Research in Business …, 2022 - ssbfnet.com
This paper explores how eLearning culture can be meaningfully instilled as an
empowerment approach towards improved learning for an underprivileged rural institution …

TV white space (TVWS) trial in Oman: Phase one (Technical)

HM Almantheri, K Al Amri, Y Al Bahri… - … Conference on Digital …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the Sultanate of Oman's technical Television White Space (TVWS)
trial details, results, analysis and recommendations. The trial has been conducted by Oman …

Prospects of successful blended pedagogies in South Africa: Planning, governance and infrastructure considerations

TM Ramoroka - Development Southern Africa, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate South Africa's implementation of educational
Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which is led by Gauteng and the Western …