Animation as an Aid for Higher Education Teaching in Kenya: The Case of Africa Nazarene University

Abstract

Higher education worldwide is increasingly becoming digitized through online pedagogical platforms. In Kenya, the desire to go digital is one of the key agendas of the current government. This vision is to be achieved through provision of free laptops for all new class one pupils in public primary schools and development of techno cities. This paper is a product of an action research that was conducted at African Nazarene University using questionnaires as instruments of data collection. Thirty students from two departments and eleven facilitators/lecturers from seven departments were selected at Africa Nazarene University's main and town campuses and formed the study sample. The paper examines the potential use of animation medium in supporting teaching and learning in Kenya for higher education. This is based on the premise that Computer animation has great potential to provide visual communication …