Abel Nyamapfene

ORCID: 0000-0001-8976-6202
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Research Areas
  • Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Higher Education Practises and Engagement
  • Biomedical and Engineering Education
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Experimental Learning in Engineering
  • Problem and Project Based Learning
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Usability and User Interface Design
  • Topic Modeling
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Mathematics Education and Programs
  • Persona Design and Applications
  • Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Engineering Education and Pedagogy
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Technology-Enhanced Education Studies
  • Wireless Networks and Protocols
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

University College London
2016-2025

Faculty (United Kingdom)
2016-2024

KLE Technological University
2024

Mbarara University of Science and Technology
2022

University of Exeter
2007-2012

University of Surrey
2006

The advent of COVID-19 at the beginning 2020 put universities worldwide into one most significant educational disruptions ever experienced.The unrelenting pandemic forced to turn technology ensure continuity education.This abruptly changed learning modes for students, with potential implications on quality education and student experience.Therefore, it became necessary study experiences sentiments toward under through lens students.Perspectives new norm can shed more light digital...

10.16920/jeet/2021/v34i0/157158 article EN Journal of Engineering Education/Journal of engineering education transformations/Journal of engineering education transformation 2021-01-21

The integration of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education is transforming teaching, learning, and research, offering opportunities for innovation efficiency. However, its widespread adoption faces challenges related to ethical considerations, data privacy, intellectual property, compliance with evolving legal frameworks. Universities are cautiously adopting GenAI, focusing on maintaining academic integrity while exploring new ways integrate into assessments student learning. This article...

10.1080/10875301.2025.2453461 article EN Internet Reference Services Quarterly 2025-01-19

Many traditional engineering schools are struggling to balance the calls provide an innovative education that meet demands of graduates and their employers with constraints momentum existing curriculum. In this paper we present conceptual design behind a framework integrates discipline-specific content threads professional skills through backbone problem-based learning experiences. This creates student-centred pedagogy has been implemented across eight departments large school in...

10.1080/03043797.2019.1593324 article EN cc-by-nc-nd European Journal of Engineering Education 2019-03-17

This study analyzes the effectiveness of virtual laboratory-based distance learning as a means improving outcomes students’ cognitive abilities and practical skills in Computer Numerical Control course. utilized pre-experimental design with onegroup pretest-posttest structure. The research subjects were 31 second-year vocational students from Department Mechanical Engineering at Universitas Negeri Padang who had recently participated four sessions. instruments included pre-test, post-test,...

10.3991/ijim.v17i24.45019 article EN International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) 2023-12-22

This article presents two strategies for integrating GenAI into assessments: the first strategy involves using Integration Rubric to guide ethical AI usage, while second focuses on Experimentation Outcome Template document lessons learned and drive continuous improvement through Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). These provide practical implications academic institutions seeking integrate assessments, supporting reskilling of students maintaining integrity.

10.1080/10875301.2025.2456903 article EN Internet Reference Services Quarterly 2025-01-28

This paper presents a study on the impact of class attendance academic performance in second year Electronics Engineering course module with online notes and no mandatory policy. The shows that is highly correlated to performance, despite availability notes. In addition, there significant correlation between non-class contact lecturer student first university current attendance. However, pre-university performance. finds gender bias either or Lastly, this being open students following...

10.11120/ened.2010.05010064 article EN Engineering Education 2010-06-01

Accredited engineering degrees call upon students to develop a wide range of knowledge and skills. These from technical, scientific mathematical knowledge, through transferable skills such as communications, teamwork, business acumen critical analysis. Through faculty-wide curriculum development programme we have sought implement cross-department teaching framework whereby pedagogies are employed deliver against core philosophies for new way aimed at developing students' attitudes while...

10.1080/23752696.2018.1507624 article EN cc-by Higher Education Pedagogies 2019-01-01

ABSTRACTABSTRACTThe Engineering Education Research Network in Africa (EERN-Africa) was created to enable connections between practitioners and researchers with a shared interest African engineering education contexts. Recognising the importance of developing an voice research space, EERN-Africa community has interacted dynamic dialogic way our own teaching practices across diverse contexts, ethical commitment democratic inclusive community-building. The objective this paper is reflect on...

10.1080/22054952.2023.2233340 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Australasian journal of engineering education 2023-01-02

Educators must conduct assessments in their learning; it determines students’ weaknesses the teaching material they follow during learning. Unfortunately, implementation of assessment by educators was not optimal, and weakness that existing method only fixated on assessing students without providing feedback assessment. At same time, this essential for learning, which can help learners assess performances cannot be seen felt themselves, as well a tool to motivate students, notification or...

10.23947/2334-8496-2024-12-1-57-76 article EN cc-by International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science Engineering and Education 2024-04-24

This study analyzes the effectiveness of virtual laboratory-based distance learning as a means improving outcomes students' cognitive abilities and practical skills in Computer Numerical Control course. utilized pre-experimental design with onegroup pretest-posttest structure. The research subjects were 31 second-year vocational students from Department Mechanical Engineering at Universitas Negeri Padang who had recently participated four sessions. instruments included pre-test, post-test,...

10.2139/ssrn.4849704 article EN SSRN Electronic Journal 2024-01-01

Pressure from industry, professional bodies and students for a reform to the curriculum delivery style of engineering education has been mounting number years. Although there have many excellent individual initiatives, developments that span whole school or faculty, encompassing disciplines departments are far rarer. This paper describes development programme across UCL faculty sciences in UK. It motivation change some approaches adopted.

10.1109/educon.2015.7096070 article EN 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2015-03-01

This work adopts a case study approach to examine the emergence of engineering education research (EER) within UK. First, summary contextual factors influencing UK EER activity are presented. section includes information pertaining higher (HE) policy, networks, and funding. Semi structured interviews used investigate who identifies as an researcher; how they define field research; consider their audience be; that inform questions, methodologies, collaborators where disseminate work. The...

10.1080/03043797.2022.2121686 article EN cc-by European Journal of Engineering Education 2022-09-24

The individual student project is a significant piece of work, typically carried out in the final or penultimate year an engineering programme. Its primary aim to provide evidence student's competence applying knowledge and experience gained over entire programme practical problem solving. Each supervised by at least one academic. In many institutions, double marking involving supervisors non-supervisors used summative assessment projects. This has raised concerns about potential supervisor...

10.11120/ened.2012.07010040 article EN Engineering Education 2012-06-01

An analysis of MATLAB <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">®</sup> integration into mathematical modules at two UK universities is carried out. Both projects appear to be successful, despite the fact that institutions in question are quite different, with one being a well-established research intensive institution and other teaching-oriented gained university status 1992. Despite these differences common themes emerge from suggest...

10.1109/educon.2016.7474699 article EN 2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2016-04-01

We present a multimodal neural network model of child language acquisition at the one-word stage that is inspired by current views on brain processing which suggest information in ultimately stored common amodal set conceptual representations. Our takes into account child's perceived communicative intention and simulates both ostensive non-ostensive utterances using same unsupervised network. This contrary to some models acquisition, line with psycholinguistic stage. When trained natural...

10.1109/ijcnn.2007.4371057 article EN IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks/IEEE ... International Conference on Neural Networks 2007-08-01

Educators must conduct assessments in their learning; it determines students' weaknesses the teaching material they follow during learning. Unfortunately, implementation of assessment by educators was not optimal, and weakness that existing method only fixated on assessing students without providing feedback assessment. At same time, this essential for learning, which can help learners assess performances cannot be seen felt themselves, as well a tool to motivate students, notification or...

10.2139/ssrn.4849631 article EN SSRN Electronic Journal 2024-01-01

ContextIn the last two decades, significant pedagogical advances aimed at enhancing UK's engineering education have emerged.However, there's a noted absence of an integrated approach linking policy and practice to evidence-based research in this field. Purpose or GoalThis study seeks bridge gap by exploring lived experiences perspectives leaders who been forefront pioneering reforms UK.It aims understand challenges they face identify potential solutions models that could address evolving...

10.52202/073963-0030 article EN 2024-01-01

This paper looks at the emergence of fifth generation wireless networks, commonly referred to by acronym 5G, from a perspective informed literature on digital divides and inequality. 5G has been designed with goal minimizing inequalities in physical access, particular differences access that arise as consequence rural-urban divide. Together Internet Things, is likely usher new era economic growth, lead general improvements quality life. However, impact socio-economic status not so clear cut....

10.31645/jisrc/(2016).14.1.0007 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Independent Studies and Research - Computing 2016-01-01
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