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One of the important functions of higher education institution is to contribute of knowledge transfers and research and development (R&D) related continuums between international research consortium, higher education institution, world of work, and government policy. In this study, knowledge transfers and R&D related continuums for high-value impacts in externally funded research, such as...
Social learning enables learners to interact with one another, which is a critical way to foster creativity. Although online social networking technologies have been widely adopted, few empirical studies have been conducted to illustrate the effect of online social interactions on creativity in the context of learning. In this research-in-progress, we attempt to fill this gap by investigating how...
Recent advances in information technology bring significant changes to the nature of social interactions and information exchange. Physical face-to-face communications are slowly replaced by online virtual communities. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research investigates how voluntary community involvement and self-disclosure behavior impact a member's peer-recognition and task performance within...
First-year problem-solving and computer programming courses are gateway courses with low passing rates, resulting in student attrition and transfers out of computer science degrees. Our urban institution serves mostly underrepresented minority students, typically an at-risk population given their minimal previous programming experience and weak mathematical background. We offer a computer problem-solving...
This article aims to present the Vila Fátima Project developed by the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, within the activities of the Prorectory of Extension. The study describes the scenarios in which the extension and Project are inserted revealing the vulnerabilities and challenges faced. It is about a reference center for young people aged 15 to 17 years that promotes...
The level of basic care in Brazil’s Unified Health System is a community-based attention model composed by Family Health Units, small teams of health professionals intended to solve low-complexity problems at a territory delimitated by a certain number of families, attended by Communitary Health Agents. Despite the large amount of social inequalities in Brazilian countryside, smartphones and tablets...
Previous research has indicated that in professional communication research, social justice principles play substantive yet often veiled, tacit roles. For instance, residing within professional communication research on matters of public policy are multiple opportunities to meaningfully engage social justice principles. Beyond research, additional engagement opportunities exist within professional...
This paper discusses the results of a tutor mentor development program that utilized a community building model to train online tutors and mentors in higher education institutions and professional organizations in Sri Lanka. Based on WisCom; an instructional design model for developing online wisdom communities, this tutor mentor development program which utilized a blended format of face-to-face...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization, a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, and disparate knowledge systems (for example, orally based), there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization and a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing from many communities. Additionally, many of these communities...
Along with the changes in the realm of language teaching and learning in 1960s from the previous teacher-centered methodologies and the subsequent emergence of social-constructivist approaches, learners came to be considered as the key in the field. As a result, learner-centered approaches were developed and special attention was given to sociological dimensions of second language learning. Due to...
Recently, many forms of e-book readers such as iPad and Kindles are becoming widely-spread. However, simply adopting e-books readers does not necessarily guarantee the improvement of reading process. Educators advocate that learning to read should not be a solitary activity. Instead, it should be a participatory learning activity that engages learners in active reading process. However, due to the...
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has grown substantially over the past few years. However, a portion of the world's society has not been able to keep up with these technological advances. For this purpose, we present a serious game with a multi-touch interface envisioned to encourage and teach digitally excluded people on how to use the Portuguese Automated Teller Machine...
This paper describes an attempt to explore possible interrelations between today's online communities, trust and their online social patterns. It reports on a study in progress to provide a deeper understanding of how and at what level such relations affect the development of learning social contexts, i.e contexts that represent individuals needs, group commitments, their responsibilities, goals and...
Online People-to-People (P2P) lending marketplace allows individuals to lend and borrow directly among each other without the mediation of a creditor bank institution. Prior literature has examined how social capital influences P2P loan performance, but has largely been limited to the Western context. This paper thus explores how social capital influences P2P lending in the U.S. and China. Based on...
This paper is concerned with sharing between students and teacher the power to manage a course that engages heterogeneous student populations in a blended learning environment in higher education. Our aim is not just to see how the students can be empowered to act autonomously, but rather to understand how they can fare as full partners of the course management experience. To this end, we engage them...
Based on the review on studies in computer-assisted language learning(CALL) in literature, this paper discusses the status quo of CALL and different perspectives related to teacher and students' engagement in CALL activities in China, finally suggests a long-term and a short term prospect guiding the understanding of teacher and students' development in a Chinese CALL context.
Online collaborative learning is an effective approach of learning, and e-tutor plays a vital role in the success of online learning. This paper first reviewed the relevant study on e-tutor's roles in online learning and proposes that it is through discourse that e-tutor builds his identity and realizes his role. Based on an online collaborative course delivered by Blackboard, the paper discusses...
While a common expression of experiential learning in software engineering is the industry-sponsored project, it suffers from key shortcomings at the introductory level. These center on the fact that projects are neither drawn from nor relevant to the everyday lives and communities of their student-developers. To address these challenges, we focus on casting project development in terms of service...
The Second Life (SL) multi-user virtual environment offers researcher opportunities to experiment with its rich communication, virtual collaboration, and 3-D content creation integrated tools. The SL synthetic world has already revealed great potential for heritage, education and learning but much of the existing applications made have focused on engagement with digital native audiences. The contribution...
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