MARIA MIIRO KAFUKO

Doctoral Researcher

Member of LA Unit

Maria Miiro Kafuko is a doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. She received her Bachelors degree in Business Computing and Master’s degree in Information Technology at Makerere University in Uganda. At UEF, she is working on “Facilitating collaborative group work at scale using Learning Analytics” being supervised by Dr Mohammed Saqr, Dr Jarkko Suhonen, A. Professor Joseph Kizito Bada and Professor Markku Tukiainen. She has done research on Mobile learning in a developing country context and will delve into learning analytics and social network Analysis in collaborative learning groups in her PhD study. She has a passion for educational technologies as well as audio-visual instructional materials and their use in the classroom to aid learning and engage students.