Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania最新文献

{"title":"Teacher Education by Open and Distance Learning: Experiences and Lessons of the 1970s and Prospects of MOEC's Current Teacher Education and Professional Development Initiatives","authors":"E. Temu","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33985","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract Available Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania Vol.5 2003: 1-35","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129155498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jobs and Equity: A Critical Examination of the Education of Working Women in Tanzania","authors":"H. Mushi","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33989","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract Available Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania Vol.5 2003: 69-81","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129321609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection in Tanzania: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream","authors":"P. F. Kihwelo","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33992","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract Available Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania Vol.5 2003: 111-119","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124122404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women Overcoming Barriers to Distance Learning at The Open University of Tanzania","authors":"E. Mhehe","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33988","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract Available Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania Vol.5 2003:58-68","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123208292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pre-School Education for a Democratic Society: Identifying Views of Stakeholders in Tanzania","authors":"Willy L. M. Komba, S. T. Mahenge, G. Koda","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V5I1.33987","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract Available Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania Vol.5 2003: 51-57","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113982585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenges Faced by Adult Learners Enrolled in Blended Distance Learning Programmes: A Case Study of the Institute of Adult Education","authors":"B. Kapinga, M. Mtani","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V18I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V18I1","url":null,"abstract":"This research attempted to provide an insight into major barriers facing adult learners pursuing a diploma in adult and continuing education programme through Blended Distance Learning. Participants included the adult learners, staff from the Department of Open and Distance Learning who are also the facilitators of the programme. This study was conducted as a descriptive case study of the barriers and difficulties faced by adult learners seeking an alternative route to education. Data were collected in the form of interviews, email correspondences, and documents from participants - both learners and facilitators. The findings of the study show that, most of the learners pursuing this programme did not have computers and internet access. Secondly, participants had limited ICT knowledge. Thirdly, most of them didn‟t have study skills and fourthly, these adult learners had competing priorities and struggled balancing family responsibilities, job obligations, and commitment to the programme. It was recommended that, the Institute of Adult Education should introduce capacity building programmes such as provision of short ICT courses concerning for both facilitators and adult learners, improving ICT infrastructures as well as introducing resource centers at the head-quarters and all regional centres. Keywords : Adult learners, distance learning, blended distance learning, education technology, case study.","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"33 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114122699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decision Support Systems in Forest Management: An Integrated Approach","authors":"F. Bwagalilo, E. Liwa, R. Shemdoe","doi":"10.4314/huria.v22i1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/huria.v22i1","url":null,"abstract":"Decision making process - especially in natural resources management, encounters myriad of challenges to objective decisions, significant decision depends on amount of information and capability of decision makers to handle massive data. In forest management, these challenges such as lack of enough data and cost associated with obtaining insitu spatial data, have been minimised with the use Geospatial Decision Support System (GDSS). GDSS has shown great capability of capturing, storing, analysing, retrieving and manipulating data for aiding spatial decisions. This technology proliferates quickly and as a result decision makers overlook other systems for forest governing. Following this situation, people living adjacent to forests have found it difficult to accessing forest resources - and their livelihoods, which depends on forests have been compromised. The continuing degradation of forest resources despite existence of different management strategies - such as (community based forest management and joint forest management), has made it necessary to assess decisions on forest conservation. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) strategy was applied to capture extent of use of Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) and GDSS in forest management decisions, observation was applied to implicitly relate the narration from FGD and the reality while interview method was applied to forest officials to capture use of ILK in forest decision making. The results revealed that ILK related to forest management; however the uncovered ILK has been insignificantly used together with GDSS in making decision for conservation. This paper establishes the ignorance on ILK as one among other factors behind the continued forest cover depletion despite existence of conventional conservation strategies. The developed framework integrates GDSS and ILK to aid forest decisions which will ensure sustainable forest conservation and serves for forest needs of the communities adjacent.","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115542759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards Sustainable Disaster Management: An Assessment of Levels of Community Awareness on Fire Outbreaks and Safety among Public Universities in Tanzania","authors":"M. Bushesha, A. Ndibalema","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V24I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V24I1","url":null,"abstract":"This study assessed community awareness on fire outbreaks and safety among public universities in Tanzania with reference to The Open University of Tanzania and the University of Dar es Salaam. Specifically, the study intended to explore individuals’ awareness and knowledge on causes of fire incidents; identify individuals who had witnessed fire incidents; assess knowledge on essential facilities for firefighting and safety; assess the individual’s ability to fight against fire incidents using local and relevant firefighting gears available in one’s premise; examine the individual ability to use modern and specified firefighting gears and safety facilities and to measure the attempts made by the universities under study towards raising community awareness on using firefighting appliances and safety measures. The study adopted phenomenological qualitative research design. Questionnaires, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions (FGD) and observation approaches were used to collect data from 76 respondents obtained through purposive and random  sampling. Data collected were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. Numerical data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics with the help of SPSS software. Qualitative data on the other hand was analyzed using content analysis approach. The study findings revealed that community awareness on fire outbreaks and safety was low. This comes as a result of inadequacy of trainings for facility users, lack of enlightenments for creating community awareness and cautions on fire incidences and poor fire outbreaks management. The study recommended on the improvement of integrative fire management and public fire disaster awareness (PFDA) strategies so as to create community awareness and safety on fire outbreaks.","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"277 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115898290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Efforts Towards Gender Equity in Academic and Employment Opportunities in The Open University of Tanzania","authors":"E. Temu","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V17I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V17I1","url":null,"abstract":"Education and employment opportunities are complementary concepts. Education opens the doors of knowledge, skills and empowerment, which in turn unlocks the opportunities for employment. The higher and varied are the educational opportunities, the more enhanced are the opportunities for varied and prestigious job opportunities. Job-opportunities specify educational levels, types and quality, which an applicant must have to secure the job opportunity. As such, one cannot discuss employment opportunities without touching on educational requirements and efforts towards combating HIV/AIDS at national and contextual levels because the latter impact negatively on recipients of education and beneficiaries of job opportunities. This paper describes and analyses how The Open University of Tanzania has endeavoured to bring about progress in narrowing down the gap between female and male university students’ enrolment in academic programmes and academics, technical and administrative staff in employment opportunities. The paper starts by highlighting the roles of education as a means of transmitting “knowledge, attitudes and values but focuses on the liberation and the transformative role it plays against physical and mental enslavement because it is dynamic, and the engine that brings about development of oneself and that of the nation at large. The establishment of The Open University of Tanzania was meant to democratize tertiary and university education so that those needing it, the marginalized groups can access it. Measures taken by OUT to reduce gender gap in academic and employment opportunities and students enrolment at non-degree, graduate and post graduate programmes include: the Charter and Rules, other legal provisions, the admission policy, the establishment of gender unit and the technical committee to spearhead its day to day activities. The committee also oversees adherance to the legal and regulatory provisions regarding the composition of decision making organs as far as gender is concerned. Staff development and succession plan, and conditionalities pertaining to the institution; the recruitment and employment policies, institutional and individual efforts all aimed at enhancing female enrolment. There is no doubt that a lot of progress has been made though efforts to realize gender parity in academic and employment at OUT has a long way to go. The legal and democratic instruments, policies and organs are in place, observed and are working relatively well though a lot more determination and practical action are required to fast track the process. There is a need  to enhance the national institutions’ capacity to perform and deliver quality outputs which constitute the inputs to OUT. It is high time that a study be carried out on how to improve increased enrolment of women in The Open University of Tanzania. Descriptors : gender equity, academics, job opportunities, tertiary and  higher education and transformative education.","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115962119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evidence Based Decline in Coconut Productivity along the Coastline of Tanzania","authors":"Z. Muyengi","doi":"10.4314/HURIA.V24I2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/HURIA.V24I2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to find out and discuss the productivity status of coconuts along the coast belt of Tanzania. According to the current statistics, Tanzania is a major producer of coconut in Africa and ranks the eleventh in world. Between 1979 and 2004, there was a significant increase of coconut production in Tanzania due to implementation of the National Coconut Development Program (NCDP). However, since phasing out of NCDP in 2004, little is known and even less is documented on the status of coconut production and productivity in the country. This study was  conducted along the coastal belt where more coconuts are produced with smallholder farmers who produce about 95% of the coconuts in Tanzania. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were applied. The results showed a decline of area under coconut cultivation per household by twenty two percent between 2004 and 2014. Also there is a decline of productivity in nuts per Ha per household by eleven percent compared to during the NCDP period. The multiple problems facing the coconut productivity identified to be; low funding for extension services and research development, poor dissemination of improved technologies, absence of initiatives for coconut farm revival, planting and replanting of new coconut seedlings. The way forward is for the Government and coconut stakeholders to strengthen extension services and allocate fund for coconut sub-sector development. Also the Government should consider the establishment of coconut board which will enforce the development of coconut along the value chain.","PeriodicalId":327958,"journal":{"name":"Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117116891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}