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Co‐Teaching in a Virtual Intensive Study Language Programme: Insights From Team Ethnography

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As virtual study abroad becomes an increasingly important form of international education, little is known about how transnational teaching is organised and sustained across institutions. Using activity theory as an analytical framework and team ethnography as methodology, this study examines a virtual intensive study (VIS) programme delivered
Zhu Hua   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

On technologies for ubiquitous multimedia communication.

open access: yes, 2006
The proliferation of multimedia and deployment of wireless networks over the last decade have made it possible for users to communicate and share information using e-meeting services from almost any location at anytime. While these new services offer new ways to communicate, they are not always easy to use because of the heterogeneity of networks and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referral strategies, whereby existing platform users recruit new users and thereby strengthen same‐side network effects, have long been central to digital platforms' efforts to grow the installed user base. Current referral strategies often require the referee to complete a transaction as a prerequisite for the referrer to receive the reward ...
Runyu Shi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Study Family Learning Practices Mediated by Digital Platforms: A Scoping Review

open access: yesJournal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic and personalized nature of today's media ecosystem complicates the documentation and analysis of digital home learning environments. In response, innovative research methods have emerged, which we broadly categorize as passive (e.g., quantitative studies) or active participatory methods.
Moises Esteban‐Guitart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

“Up to and including death”: understanding anaesthesia‐related anxiety among pet owners in a tertiary‐care setting

open access: yesJournal of Small Animal Practice, EarlyView.
Objectives Preparing clients for their pet to undergo general anaesthesia is an important and common task for veterinary professionals. The aims of this study were to better understand referral client anxiety relating to general anaesthesia and to determine their level of knowledge in this area.
A. Shuttleworth, C. Adami
wiley   +1 more source

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