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Co-presence Communities: Using pervasive computing to support weak social networks

, 2006
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a coffee with in the afternoon; the waitress at a our regular sandwich bar ...
De Roure, David, Lawrence, Jamie, Payne, Terry R.   +2 more
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Labor market integration in the presence of social capital [PDF]

Labor market integration is typically assumed to improve welfare in the absence of distortions, because it allows labor to move to where returns are highest.
Schiff, Maurice
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MEASURING THE COMMUNITY IN ONLINE CLASSES

Online Learning, 2013
The paper addresses individual and group level phenomena in online classes, and proposes both theoretical and empirical approaches to examining them, following the example of organizational climate.
Beth Rubin
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Social Media Strategic Plan For Under Armour [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis is a study of the effects of social media on an organization’s integrated marketing communications strategy in general and provides a proposal of how the sports apparel company Under Armour could use social media to enhance its promotional ...
Leers, Ashley
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Replacing the Nods and Smiles: Raising Questions about Philosophy and Pedagogy in a Predominantly Web-based Master’s Module

Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2012
This paper discusses the student and lecturer experience of a Master of Education module taught through the World Wide Web and with study guides. It explores the wide range of responses to questions about students' perceptions of the philosophy that ...
Mavis Haigh, Margaret Turnbull
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Social media presence

Social media presence: Live discussions on Twitter about the project, its results and events. The tweets will be collected and stored as a live story on Storify, which will be constantly updated throughout the project’s life span.
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Social Presence in Online Discussion Forums [PDF]

, 2011
El uso de foros de discusión en línea como una herramienta para el aprendizaje colaborativo requiere que los estudiantes se perciban mutuamente como personas reales y generen lazos afectivos entre ellos.
Santos Acevedo, M. C. Gloria
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Aggregate Savings in the Presence of Private and Social Insurance [PDF]

In the presence of uncertain lifetimes, social security has the characteristics of an annuity: a consumer pays a tax when young in exchange for receiving a social security benefit if he survives to be old.
Andrew B. Abel
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Analyzing covert social network foundation behind terrorism disaster

, 2007
This paper addresses a method to analyze the covert social network foundation hidden behind the terrorism disaster. It is to solve a node discovery problem, which means to discover a node, which functions relevantly in a social network, but escaped from ...
Maeno, Yoshiharu, Ohsawa, Yukio
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The impact of community of inquiry presences on student motivation in blended learning: a self-determination theory perspective

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Although the Community of Inquiry is a widely used instructional model for online and blended learning, there is a lack of comprehensive research on its effects on learner motivation.
Mohamed Shameem Adam, Junainah Abd Hamid, Ali Khatibi, S. M. Ferdous Azam   +3 more
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