Zimbabwean universities faced trenchant institutional needs for online teaching — untrained personnel, poor digital infrastructure and cyber security — mostly emanating from inadequate funding¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Universities in Zimbabwe were confronted with trenchant institutional needs for online teaching, including the absence of well-trained personnel, poor digital infrastructure and cyber security, most of which emanated from inadequate funding. → Chimbunde 2023

Evidence¶

Chimbunde 2023¶

Chimbunde, P. (2023). Funding the online teaching and learning in developing countries: insights from Zimbabwe. Education Tech Research Dev, 71, 753–766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-022-10163-3

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Qualitative interview and WhatsApp-discussion study of 15 Heads of Departments across Zimbabwean universities; the article reports institutional needs "for example, the absence of well-trained personnel, poor digital infrastructure and cyber security" and attributes most of them to inadequate funding. No effect sizes are printed.

"universities were confronted with trenchant institutional needs, for example, the absence of well-trained personnel, poor digital infrastructure and cyber security of which most of them emanated from inadequate funding"

Discussion¶

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