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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"discussion forum"”.
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A comparison of socially-motivated discussion forum models for learning management systems
… exploring the incorporation of sociallymotivated discussion forum models. This study proposes a Web-based application, which includes four different discussion forum models for LMSes, in order to test usability and student preferences. The purpose of this study was to compare two non-social …
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Crowdsourcing Cognitive Presence: A Quantitative Content Analysis of a K12 Educator MOOC Discussion Forum
… opportunities to engage with content and discussion forums similar to other online courses. Pedagogical components of MOOCs and the nature of learning are worth of examining due to issues involving scale, interaction and the role of the instructor (Ross, Sinclair, Know, Bayne & McLeod, …
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A qualitative analysis of small business owner-managers' participation and learning in an online discussion forum : not quite paradise found
… provision a free, informal, voluntary, online discussion forum (ODF) for SBOMs as an alternative to face-to-face training. The ODF provided an alternative to formal face-to-face training and enabled informal, voluntary, networkbased learning for SBOMs that met their learning preferences for …
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Assessing the impact of e-learning on decision-making to reduce health risks: Perceptions from UCT's pesticide risk management cohort
… component which includes virtual seminars/discussion forums. The DPRMs' discussion forum aimed to strengthen skills in managing and reducing pesticide risks. Due to the shortage of skilled professionals in LMICs, e-learning can facilitate the on-going training and skills development in …
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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
… a definition of SR with the members of the discussion forum. Through a virtual ethnography of the SR discussion forum, I qualitatively analyzed the textual data in order to conceptualize SR as what Robert Merton (1938) describes as rebellion and what Howard Becker (1963) refers to as pure …
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Tales of a Wannabe Nomad
… EF College Break. Along with travel advice and a discussion forum, the site contains "City Guides" detailing prospective travelers with ideas on what to eat, drink, see, and do in cities worldwide. Additionally, numerous blog postings relate the author's personal accounts of daily activities from …
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Dialogic Online Professional Development: The Use of Technology to Build a Community of Practice in Educational Dialogue
… to complete online as well as a community discussion forum, all of which aim to strengthen the understanding and use of dialogic pedagogy. Data was collected and analysed over three design cycles using mixed methods, whereby quantitative and qualitative research strands occurred …
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Developing courseware to support online discussion
… thesis, I designed and implemented an online discussion forum in an attempt to improve student learning. Aided with the help of Professor Jonathon Cummings 15.351 course (Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship), I measured student and peer-to-peer interaction via online discussion …
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Examining Critical Thinking Development in Undergraduate Nursing Students Utilizing Online and Face-to-Face Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments
… system face-to-face in-class and an online discussion forum out-of-class. The Community of Inquiry framework that structures the study captured constructivist collaborative inquiry to facilitate the development of critical thinking, while building a supportive environment for learning. This …
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The Student Teaching Experience: Mentor Teachers' Self-Reported Mentoring Behaviors, Challenges, And Resource Utilization
… were invited to participate in a listserv discussion focusing on principles of Cognitive Coaching. The impact of the listserv discussion forum on the beliefs and mentoring practices of subscribing mentor teachers is also reported. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyze survey …
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Predicting text features of social temporal point process
… - for example, the time sequence of multivariate discussions in online forums with features like text and user profile, and the coordinate sequence of human joint position in movement with features like relationship with other joints. Events in a temporal point process are usually marked by text …
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AFRICOM's Impact on International and Human Security: A Case Study of Tanzania
… analysis of Tanzanian newspapers and an online discussion forum, and interviews with U.S. officials.</p> <p>This analysis found that AFRICOM is more of a traditional combatant command than the whole of government command articulated at its inception, and primarily emphasizes military-to-military …
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Social influences on the development of relational thinking during small-group discussions
… with peers and teachers during small-group discussions, and whether peer relationships mediate or moderate the instantaneous social and cognitive events of discussions. The social influences were investigated in a peer-led small-group discussion forum called Collaborative Reasoning (CR). A …
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Design implications of an online collaborative workspace developed using open source software
… of the project include a digital library, online discussion forum, adaptive hypermedia engine and a statement database. Such a system was deemed necessary because of today's global network of researchers who are divided by both location and time. The need therefore exists for a system which allows …
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End Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in the Acute Post Extubation Period in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting
… meetings through a formal PowerPoint format and discussion forum. Currently, the project is in the first quarter since launching and the focus is to increase staff compliance of using ETC02 NC instead of regular NC after patients are extubated. The first quarterly chart audit will take place in …
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The negotiation of teaching presence in international online contexts
… and instructors, in addition to analyses of discussion forum transcripts, course documents, formative evaluations, student and instructor reflections, and researcher-participant observations. The linguistic challenges faced by both instructor and students for whom the language of instruction …
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Ask for help: Online help-seeking and engagement for college students traditionally underrepresented in STEM
… in an online college-level STEM course discussion forum in two separate investigations, utilizing different analytic techniques. The first investigation used social network analysis to examine various forum engagement measures concerning course improvement and UR-STEM status. Findings …
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Student Partisan Identity and Online Discussions
… While political partisanship looms large over discussions of the national political climate’s influence on schools and classrooms, very little work exists that directly examines the effects of high school students’ political beliefs. Prior research on adults indicates that political partisans …
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Infrastructure, Production, and Archive: American and Japanese Video Art Production of 1960s and 1970s
… as a pedagogical tool, research resource, and discussion forum allows cross-linguistic understanding, networked scholarship, and open accessibility, suggesting an ideal method for knowledge making. Moreover, this thesis suggests the digital platform as a potential catalyst for a collaborative …
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THE IMPACT OF ADDING LIVE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM DISCUSSION TO ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSION IN A BLENDED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COURSE
Asynchronous discussion board (ADB) is considered to be a key online learning component. Although ADB has become an important teaching method in higher education for blended courses, the literature shows low levels of both the quality and quantity of learner interaction in the discussion boards of …
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