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Investigating supported or unsupported individual and group work in open forums in an open educational resources repository [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Open Educational Resources (OERs) can play a part in advancing the lifelong learning and social inclusion agendas (Geser, 2007). The focal point of this paper is on how learners of different ages will be encouraged to adopt OERs by their teachers and ...
Wilson, Tina
core   +2 more sources

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring The Relationship Between Learning Style And Critical Thinking In An Online Course [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
As online courses become more widespread in adult education programs, adult educators begin to explore teaching strategies that effectively facilitate student learning based on different learning styles.
Conceicao, Simone
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

DIALOGISM IN THE DISCUSSION FORUMS IN ONLINE EDUCATION

open access: yesSignum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2014
The digital genre, Discussion Forums, if constitutes as the main instrument of asynchronous communication and interaction of the Education in the distance online.
Carmem Lúcia de Oliveira MARINHO   +1 more
doaj  

THE UTILITY OF ECOTOURISM SPECIALIZED DISCUSSION FORUMS [PDF]

open access: yes
The forum is a site on which one can find answers to some questions that concern him/her. It is a means of promotion of a product/service/company, it can be a site where experience is exchanged, where one can meet other people, a free school in which one
Alexandra Mărginean   +2 more
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Implementing an Indigenous Research Methodology to Develop a Culturally Appropriate Survey and Yarning Protocol: Challenges With Retention of the Aboriginal Health, Ageing and Disability Workforce

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilization of social media and web forums by HIV patients - A cross-sectional study on adherence and reported anxiety level

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2017
Due to the high stigma surrounding the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), people living with HIV (PLWH) often reach out peers over the Internet for emotional and social support. The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of PLWH who use
Elisa Longinetti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Online forum users’ views and experiences of managing irritable bowel syndrome: a qualitative analysis of discussion content

open access: yesBJGP Open, 2020
Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is common and often negatively affects quality of life. Patients frequently perceive medical interventions as inadequate and seek support from other sources, including online discussion forums.
Emma Teasdale   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Australia: A Five‐Phase Framework for Indigenous Data Governance

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the development of a five‐phase Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) Framework in Australia, focusing on partnerships between the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) sector and non‐Indigenous health entities.
Jacob Prehn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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