Professor Johnnie Wycliffe Frank Muwanga-Zake has a strong educational background, extensive managerial and leadership experiences of close to forty years and of lecturing close to 19 years, and experiences in learning technologies. He is an experienced learning technologist and a qualified teacher. He is an experienced learning technologist and a qualified teacher. He has designed ICTs and learning technologies for universities, and have been a key role player in implementing Information Management Systems.
Starting from his PhD research that explored the use of play in virtual environments to ease the understanding of biological concepts. Prof Muwanga-Zake is a key role player in evaluating Learning Management systems at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales in Australia and an active member of the New South Wales Computer Education Group.
Thereafter, as a Senior Lecture at Greenwich University, London in the United Kingdom, with a team of Learning Technologists, he was responsible for improving blended learning, as well as evaluating and implementing new learning technologies. He led the team which introduced SharePoint as a tool to share academic processes across different campuses of Greenwich University.
Prof Muwanga-Zake role as a Head of the ICT Department at the Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, Uganda, was to lead the transformation of management, lecturing and learning towards the digital information systems. He changed the internet framework and introduced Moodle, including the ant-iplagiarism tool, Turnitin. His main role in the World Bank project of a Centre of Excellence (ACALISE) is to make sure all operations are digitally managed. The success of such transformations was one of the reasons he was recruited at Cavendish University Uganda, Kampala, to specifically transform learning. He together with a team designed, developed and implemented eLearning at that university. He has been a Dean of the School of Computing and Technology where most the technologies are thought through, and later a Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and Vice-Chancellor of Uganda Technology and Management University, a leading university in Uganda in the use of learning technologies.
