Addi Mavengere
eLearning Africa 2025
Country: Tanzania
Year: 2025
Format: Presentation
Title: Enhancing Student Engagement and Performance Through Oculesics-Informed Virtual Reality Implementation
Synopsis: This presentation focuses on successful strategies for utilizing virtual reality within classrooms of African nations. Preliminary evidence indicates that a major source of the problem is student lack of attention during VR learning experiences. The presentation includes initial findings from virtual reality lab sessions which highlight the challenge, and results of a pilot study on the use of oculesics with on-screen video content that mimics virtual reality experiences.
Link: https://www.elearning-africa.com/conference2025/
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AI Connect II
Country: South Africa
Year: 2024
Format: Panel Discussion
Title: AI Literacy: Training a New Generation of Professionals
Synopsis: In this presentation I explained how Learning Factory has leveraged AI tools to enhance education delivery. In my presentation I talked about the use of generative AI to speed up Learning Factory's instructional design processes, and the use of other AI tools to generate insights into how users engage with our educational content, which insights we use to improve the content we develop.
Link: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/geotech-center/ai-connect/#jump-to
Great Zimbabwe University Research Fair
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2021
Format: Presentation
Title: Using digital educational resources in low resource settings
Synopsis: In this presentation I talked about the rationale behind using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for Math and Science education to support teaching delivery in Zimbabwean communities in which limited financial and material resources hinder students' access to textbooks, and laboratories.
How Innovations Flourish
Country: USA
Year: 2021
Format: Panel Discussion
Title: How International EdTech is Breaking Barriers and Advancing Equity
Synopsis: In this presentation I explained how Learning Factory's EdTech solutions make science education accessible to students in communities in Zimbabwe which have limited access to textbooks and laboratories. In this presentation I spoke specifically about Learning Factory's innovation called StudyBox, which makes digital courseware accessible offline and off-the-grid, and how we have integrated Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality into a single package with StudyBox topsets to support Science and Math education.
mEducation Alliance Symposium
Country: USA
Year: 2018
Format: Gallery Walk Presentation
Title: StudyBox: Digital Educational Resources Off-The-Grid
Synopsis: I demonstrated how StudyBox topset works and how they are used in to provision digital educational content offline and off-the-grid. I shared insights into practices to produce appropriate digital content for offline provisioning based on evidence from piloting of StudyBox in Zimbabwe.
eLearning Africa
Country: Rwanda
Year: 2018
Format: Discovery Demos
Title: Running the Last Mile: Digital eLearning Off-the-Grid
Synopsis: In this experience-sharing session I talked about Learning Factory's experience developing StudyBox, an EdTech solution, and deploying it in Zimbabwe. The presentation delved into the technical aspects of developing a solution that fits well with the curriculum it serves, and issues relating to regulation and stakeholder engagement that need to be dealt with when working in the education space.
An Evaluation of the Accuracy of Aggregate Performance Indicators Used in the Measurement of the Performance of Zimbabwe’s Manufacturing Sector
Year: 2014
Format: Journal Article
Abstract: Developing viable industrial policies and operational strategies depends on the availability of accurate information. A number of aggregate performance indicators are currently in use to measure the aggregate performance of Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector, supplying information for decision making. The continued poor performance of the manufacturing sector despite the adoption of a succession of industrial and economic policies to promote the development of the sector brings into question the informational base used to develop, monitor and evaluate these policies. This research evaluated the accuracy of aggregate performance indicators used to measure the performance of Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector, namely capacity utilization, employment statistics and the contribution of manufacturing to Gross Domestic Product .The research finds that the metrics used to measure the performance of Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector are not representative of the performance of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe.
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