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Babak Abedin Farhad Daneshgar John D’Ambra 《Education and Information Technologies》2011,16(3):227-244
By the proliferation of online courses, the social dimension of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is becoming
more important than before. Research shows that communicative behavior adaptation to the computer medium is a critical issue
in CSCL social relationship development. Two dominant theories in the CSCL field, social information processing theory and
adaptive structuration theory, argue that individuals do not simply receive the technology passively but they adapt their
behavior to increase benefits from the technology. This paper develops an instrument in order to operationalize the notion
of individual’s communicative behavior adaptability in CSCL. Through an exploratory factor analysis performed on a small sample
of post graduate students of an online degree in an Australian university, three factors have been unveiled: (1) individual
perception of self-representation, (2) individual perception of compatibility, and (3) individual perception of the use of
computer technology. Identification of these factors is expected to facilitate understanding of individuals’ social behaviors
in CSCL environment, which in turn will guide the design of CSCL systems. In addition, the paper examines the relationships
between the extracted factors and four environmental factors: learner’s characteristics, course characteristics, instructor
characteristics, and technology characteristics. The results show that none of these characteristics strongly affect perception
of self-representation or perception of the use of computer technology. On the other hand, a strong relationship was found
between perception of compatibility and learner’s and course characteristics. The reliability as well as validity of the study
is examined and findings are discussed. These findings will provide further insights into the design process of CSCL systems. 相似文献
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David R. Cole Mehri Mirzaei Rafe 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2017,30(9):849-862
This article will explore the increasing interest in the application of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Alfred North Whitehead to educational research, for example, as a conceptual underpinning for inquiry in the new materialisms, and/or educational posthumanism. The exploration of this paper is complicated by the fact that Deleuze and Guattari changed their philosophical position in their dual publications, with, for example, their last book: What is Philosophy? representing a substantial departure from their rhizomatic work in, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. This article will explain the changes in position with reference to the mapping of conceptual ecologies that Deleuze and Guattari are describing through their philosophy, and not dualism. Concept creation appears in the analysis of Western philosophy in: What is Philosophy? and as the job of philosophy. In contrast, A Thousand Plateaus presents a whole raft of interrelated concepts that help explain the connections between capitalism and schizophrenia, but do not present ‘concept creation’ as a positive task as such, even though one could impute that they are successfully doing it. This article will explain these changes in positioning of Deleuze and Guattari as a mode of sophisticated conceptual ecology, which takes into account the work that they want their concepts to perform. Transcribed to educational research, ‘concept creation’ is an importantly non-methodological task, which is augmented and expanded with reference to the metaphysics of Whitehead’s process philosophy (a non-method), and how it has been taken up, for example, by Isabelle Stengers in terms of research positioning and science. 相似文献
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Xier Luo Yu Zhou Bing Zhang Yi Zhang Xiaobo Wang Tong Feng Zhipeng Li Kuiqing Cui Zhiqiang Wang Chan Luo Hui Li Yanfei Deng Fenghua Lu Jianlin Han Yongwang Miao Huaming Mao Xiaoyan Yi Cheng Ai Shigang Wu Alun Li Zhichao Wu Zijun Zhuo Do Da Giang Bikash Mitra Mohammad Farhad Vahidi Shahid Mansoor Sahar Ahmed Al-Bayatti Eka Meutia Sari Neena Amatya Gorkhali Sigit Prastowo Laiba Shafique Guoyou Ye Qian Qian Baoshan Chen Deshun Shi Jue Ruan Qingyou Liu 《国家科学评论(英文版)》2020,7(3):686
Domesticated buffaloes have been integral to rice-paddy agro-ecosystems for millennia, yet relatively little is known about the buffalo genomics. Here, we sequenced and assembled reference genomes for both swamp and river buffaloes and we re-sequenced 230 individuals (132 swamp buffaloes and 98 river buffaloes) sampled from across Asia and Europe. Beyond the many actionable insights that our study revealed about the domestication, basic physiology and breeding of buffalo, we made the striking discovery that the divergent domestication traits between swamp and river buffaloes can be explained with recent selections of genes on social behavior, digestion metabolism, strengths and milk production. 相似文献
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Farhad Saba 《Distance Education》2005,26(2):255-272
Distance education has grown rapidly in the United States in recent years. Both private‐ and public‐sector organizations have embraced the practice of reaching their clients, employees, and students at a distance via new technologies afforded them by the telecommunication and computer nexus. Distance education is grounded on technology, and its practice would be difficult, if not impossible, without it. However, reducing the idea to its technological foundations, and losing sight of its social science base has led to a conceptual confusion in the field. This article will illustrate the growth of distance education in the United States, describe the social science paradigm of distance education, demonstrate the empirical evidence of this paradigm, and analyze its ramifications for the field in general, as well as for students, educational organizations, and instructors. 相似文献
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Farhad Saba 《The American journal of distance education》2016,30(4):275-276
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Patrick J. Harrison Farhad Saba Bonnie J. Seeman Gina Molise Robert Behm Michael D. Williams 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1991,39(4):65-77
The study described in this article takes the view that distance education programs are dynamic systems with multiple constituencies.
Literature on distance education programs as complex systems and on the critical constituency approach to program evaluation
was used to guide the development of a questionnaire designed to assess the components of a distance education program. Instrument
development was conducted in four phases using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The data from this study suggest
that there are four major components of effectiveness in distance education programs: instruction, management, telecommuting,
and support. Within each of these components there are from two to five subcomponents, 14 components in all, which can be
used to assess distance education programs. The assessment scale which was developed measures these four components and their
subcomponents. 相似文献
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This paper attends to a theoretical overview in process philosophy and empirical data, with the intent of providing a way forward for social justice in education. The introduction of Whitehead into the role of an educationalist questions what social justice means and how to enact it through pedagogy. The focus of thought about social justice in education is removed from a human-only activity and repositioned as a global concern that builds upon the work of the new materialisms and post humanism. In times of environmental crisis, the use of Whitehead is a means to enhance the personal, social and global aspects of educational provision, whilst retaining a focus and call to action with respect to nature and everything non-human. Whitehead was resolute that he could avoid human-nature bifurcation, and his construction of ‘process metaphysics’ was to resolve the issues created by knowledge potentially becoming abstracted and devoid of nature, process and/or context. This piece puts Whitehead to work for social justice issues, such as those caused by the injustices of and in contemporary capitalism, whilst recognizing this work must simultaneously attend to environmental and planetary concerns. 相似文献
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Babak Abedin Farhad Daneshgar John D'Ambra 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2012,43(3):385-397
While technological improvements of the computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) have been substantial, its nontask social aspect has not received proportional attention. This study investigates the notion of nontask sociability of CSCL, and identifies its relationship with the students' learning outcomes using the case of an Australian postgraduate programme. Learning outcome is defined as a multiple variable consisting of pedagogical affect, student's interest and perceived learning. Five items were identified for operationalising the nontask sociability. These are ‘finding help’, ‘sense of appealing’, ‘sense of boringness’, ‘sense of interactivity’ and ‘sense of frustration’. In addition, a strong relationship was revealed between nontask sociability and learning outcomes which implies that further attention needs to be given to the nontask aspect of the CSCL interactions. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are then discussed. 相似文献