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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Online participation"”.
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A case study of student participation in discussion in an online higher education course
… a mixed method research design to investigate online participation on discussion tasks by students. The research also explored the relationship between online participation and academic performance, and the teacher's role in designing the tasks and providing support for students. Ninety-five …
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Online Political Participation: Evaluation of the Changing Effects Over Time
<p>The internet is a political participation medium that has been subject to constant changes. Just since 2008, there has been a significant increase in the amount of people who use the internet for political purposes. Building on the work of Brian Kruger and others I evaluate whether the internet …
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Developing and applying a constitutional framework for public participation in South Africa
Online public participation platforms have resuscitated the debate globally about whether the Internet can be used to improve the reach of public participation and the quality of comments received during these processes or not. This thesis highlights that this debate is a ruse. Our focus should not …
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Dynamic measuring tools for online discourse
When evaluating participation within an Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN), current best practices include counting messages and reviewing participant surveys. To understand the impact of more advanced dynamic measurement tools for use within an ALN, a web-based tool, known as iPET (the integrated …
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Engaged or just "friends": using social media for membership engagement or identity management through group affiliations
… in groups both on and offline. In-person and online participation levels were examined, and motives for online activity on groups' social media pages were investigated to understand how profile identity formation played a role in emerging-aged adults' associations. Information acquired through …
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Design of a Support Tool for Citizens Engaging in Urban Planning Online
Online engagement in urban planning is accessible and convenient, but lacks face-to-face expert feedback and support. This research undertakes design of online support for lay citizens, to complement online participation environments. The design examines multiple planning strategy alternatives at …
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Trust Broker: A Defense Against Identity Theft From Online Transactions
The proliferation of online services over the years has encouraged more and more people to participate in Internet activities. Many web sites request personal and sensitive information needed to deliver the desired service. Unfortunately, it is difficult to distinguish the sites that can be trusted …
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How Could Participatory Design be Catalyzed by Social Media? Improving Co-Design Efficiency and Effectiveness
… of the Internet and information technology, online participation is becoming an important gateway for civic engagement. Social media, with the ability to mobilize people without minimal time and spatial limitations, has been increasingly integrated into participatory design projects in recent …
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Effect of cooperative structure of small-group online activities on student satisfaction, benefits and use in distance education and an exploration of online strategies
… is to improve the design of small-group online activities in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) distance education (DE) environments. Participants were volunteers drawn from an undergraduate education course, $n=38.$ Drawing on cooperative learning techniques, students in …
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Visualisation of Interactions in Online Collaborative Learning Environments
… has been directed towards the importance of online dialogue as a defining feature of the VLE. However, practical methods of reviewing and analysing online communication to encode and trace cycles of real dialogue (and learning) have proved somewhat elusive. Qualitative methods are under-used …
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Understanding Pedagogic Collaboration in the Online Environment
Online learning environments are being increasingly utilised in academic settings, with many universities developing online and blended programmes (Adekola, 2016). The student experience, in relation to working with others, when studying online, has been widely researched (Garrison et. al, 2000, …
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The transformation of Korean wireless telecommunications policy: the state, transnational forces, businesses, and networked users
… state.” The other is that online community culture gave rise to a new type of telecommunications user. This research calls them “networked users,” meaning users who are self-empowered in cyberspace and who are opposed to closed polices created by developmental goals and …
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Infrastructures for participation : institutional and technical considerations for new forms of participation in urban development
… digital devices combined with the ubiquity of online collaboration and interaction exposes the need to review the ownership models for data and digital infrastructures that increasingly perform as politicised resources in everyday life. Viewing geography as an important aspect to the …
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Modeling usage of an online research community
Although online communities have been thought of as a new way for collaboration across geographic boundaries in the scientific world, they have a problem attracting people to keep visiting. The main purpose of this study is to understand how people behave in such communities, and to build and …
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Online Knowledge Community Mining and Modeling for Effective Knowledge Management
… they now do in virtual space. In particular, online communities have become popular and efficient media for people all over the world to seek and share knowledge in domains that interest them. Such communities are called online knowledge communities (OKCs). Large-scale OKCs may comprise …
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Second Screens for Engagement with Political Discourse
… in particular are accompanied by vast amounts of online content, much of it conducted through the use of second screens—personal devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops used alongside television broadcasts.<br/><br/>This research has been motivated by the belief that second screens …
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Technology outreach programs : their impact on middle-school students and their families from underserved communities
… their skills in multimedia, mobile media and online participation in addition to fostering access to newer computers of good quality with high-speed and wireless Internet.
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Supporting Intercultural Collaborations In Blended And Online Settings: A Randomised Control Trial Of Internationalised Academic Content
… percentage enrolling each term in blended and online modules. This means that assignments such as online group work create unique spaces for intercultural learning and collaboration in ways unprecedented a mere ten to twenty years ago. Online intercultural group work stands to benefit students’ …
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Facebook as a disruptor of journalism and political debate in Vietnam
… or deepened democracy in Vietnam? How does the online power struggle between young Facebook users and the authorities occur? These questions are central to the current study. One strand of the study is underpinned by an online survey of 200 Facebook users in Vietnam aged between 18 and 30 years …
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