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Ocholla, Dennis N.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department: Information Studies
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3860-1736
Research Interest(s): Information seeking, Knowledge management, ICT4 development, Applied bibliometrics, Information ethics, Scholarly communication, LIS education, Research methods.
Biography: Dennis N. Ocholla, PhD is Senior Professor of Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zululand, South Africa where is was also Head of the Department of Information Studies for 18 years, Dean for two years and Deputy Dean/vice Dean for 10 years. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Inkanyiso-JHSS. He holds PhD and MLIS in Library and Information Science from Kiev/St Petersburg/Leningrad in 1988 and Krasnodar 1983 respectively (both in the former USSR). He has supervised and examined many masters and PhD students for several universities in Africa and published extensively in library and information science (over 150 peer refereed articles, book chapters and conference proceedings). So far, he has graduated 24 PhDs, 17 masters and taught most of LIS courses/modules in his 30 years of university teaching career. He is currently NRF C2 rated researcher.
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    Insight into ethical cyber behaviour of undergraduate students in selected African universities
    2020
     | AOSIS Publishing
    Background: Worldwide, immoral cyberspace users have continued to use the Internet to commit crimes; this has caused unease and has called for quick response to the problem especially within the educational sector. The practical value of this study is in its benefit to other researchers who may be attempting to understand South African or Nigerian cyber technology user‘s behaviour; it may also help relevant educational authorities to get relevant understanding of behaviour in the realm of cyberspace. Objectives: This study examined undergraduate students in relation to cyber technology at the University of Zululand (UNIZULU), South Africa, and the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria. Method: A survey design, questionnaire as the tool for data collection was adapted and samples for the study were drawn from undergraduate students in two conveniently selected universities in South Africa and Nigeria. Overall, 450 undergraduate students were invited to participate in the survey; 380 respondents completed and returned the questionnaire, resulting in a response rate of 84.4% Results: Most of the respondents from the sampled universities reported that they were aware of what constitutes unethical cyber behaviour. Furthermore, the participants revealed that they hardly received orientation at the universities on cyber behaviour. The challenges that the students faces were reported. Conclusion: This study recommends that universities should sustain orientation and/or training programmes on cyber-ethics and cyber security awareness at the start of each academic year. The results of this study may spark further discussions and research on cyber technology access and use in contemporary society.
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