From left: Dr. Mirriam Osore KUCI board member, Mrs. Elizabeth Maiyani Director EagleCrest Academy, Dr. Elizabeth Andango KUCI board member, looking on from behind Dr. Mugure lecturer Kenyatta University, sampling moon cakes
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
KUCI Director Dr. Hellen Kiende gives opening speech
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
2022 KUCI family
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Grade 4 & 5 mandarin leaners from EagleCrest Academy Matasia listen keenly to video presentations
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Ms. Achieng’ singing ‘the moon reflects my heart’ a classic Chinese mid-autumn piece
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
KUCI lion dance team
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Guests enjoying a presentation
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Q & A session
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
KUCI Taiji team in action
KUCI CELEBRATE THE 2022 MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Students and staff from Eagle Crest Academy pose for a photo with KUCI Director and board members
Developing Blended Learning (DBL) aims to model good pedagogy and good curriculum design. Material included in the capacity development of module developers included: The 5 stage model of online facilitation (Salmon, 2018), Theories of learning (Kolb, Bruner, Marton, Entwistle, Schön, Bloom, Vygotsky inter alia), Constructive alignment (Biggs, n.d.) and Carpe Diem (Salmon, 2018). The outcome included Academic developers who are equipped to support all colleagues in curriculum design, including running subsequent iterations of DBL, Academic colleagues interested in blended learning, developed pedagogic and curriculum design skills to repurpose material for online delivery as well as Academic developers that can run Carpe Diem workshops .
To ensure the courses offered through this project are high quality, the project has grown the educational development capacity of the lecturers in developing innovative blended learning modules. The project has done this by building a solid base of expertise amongst academic staff in the use of effective blended learning pedagogies as well as development of interactive blended learning modules.
Universal accessibility to digital materials developed
The project in collaboration with Association of common wealth universities (ACU) has also trained members of staff to produce high quality on line modules such as Introduction to entrepreneurship which is loaded on the University’s Learning management system as well as on the OER Africa to increase accessibility of the module. See link https://www.oerafrica.org/resource/introduction-entrepreneurship-ucu-104
The AI techniques are loaded into the LMS and this module is being used to show the effect of AI on student’s learning.
Most of CI graduates have been employed in highly esteemed and prestigious institutions: such as Kenya Airways, Chinese Embassy in Kenya, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, among others. A number of our graduates have been employed as translators in the business, hospitality and tourism industries while others are teachers of Chinese in various universities and colleges. We therefore encourage all persons interested in studying Chinese language and Culture to join Confucius Institute at Kenyatta University. We have classes for Form Four leavers, University students and graduates, business men and other mature students with an interest in the language for various reasons.
The Kenyatta University Confucius Institute is the preferred and Institute of choice for those who require professional and quality learning of Chinese language in a serene and friendly atmosphere.
Reviewed literature and identified various Artificial Intelligent Techniques (ITS) such as reinforcement learning (RL), artificial neural networks (ANN), educational data mining (EDM), gamification tools and how they were integrated in e-learning platforms for personalized learning:
Identified the gaps in the current e-learning platforms: In particular the project was interested in which intelligence-inducing techniques were incorporated in the current ITS platforms and whether there was room for creative enhancement including the use of modern AI strategies.
Implement an ITS system (that utilizes AI techniques – ANN, RL, and EDM) integrated with Moodle, an open source E-learning platform used at Kenyatta University: ITS modules were developed and integrated with the open-source Moodle e-learning platform.
Equipped academic staff interested in blended learning with requisite knowledge and skills to enable development of pedagogically sound approaches to repurposing existing as well as creating new materials for blended delivery
