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Levine, Alissa; Winkler, Christoph; Petersen, Saul – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2010
The Center for Economic and Workforce Development (CEWD) at Kingsborough Community College (KCC) is currently working on a workforce development project that contains innovative teaching tools that proved successful in overcoming issues of academic isolation facing the student body. The CUNY Young Adult Program (CYAP) is a partnership of three…
Descriptors: Food Service, Career Planning, Adult Programs, Young Adults
Dunlap, Joanna C.; Lowenthal, Patrick R. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
In this article the authors share strategies for establishing personal, one-on-one relationships between online students and faculty, to attend to identity, individualization, and interpersonal interaction in support of student engagement and retention. Rather than focus on high-tech solutions, the authors focus on low-tech solutions--the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence, Individual Needs
Elola, Idoia; Oskoz, Ana – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
The use of social technologies, such as wikis and chats, has brought a renewed attention to L2 collaborative writing. Yet, a question that still remains to be answered is the extent to which learners' writing is enhanced when using these tools. By analyzing learners' individual and collaborative writing, this study (a) explores L2 learners'…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
Hall, Richard; Hall, Melanie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article scopes the connections between the educational use of Web 2.0 technologies in social learning spaces, and the concept of individual self-efficacy. At issue is whether the individual learner can be empowered "both" in her/his engagement with a task based upon a perception that s/he will be successful "and" in taking…
Descriptors: Socialization, Self Efficacy, Individual Development, Decision Making
McCarthy, Joshua – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This study explores blending virtual and physical learning environments to enhance the experience of first year by immersing students into university culture through social and academic interaction between peers. It reports on the progress made from 2008 to 2009 using an existing academic platform, the first year design elective course…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Elective Courses, Architecture, Evaluation
Leung, Chi-hung; Choi, Eudora – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: A limited amount of research has been conducted on children and adolescents who are low achievers. In Hong Kong, educators describe low achieving students in terms of academic performance, they seldom focus on socio-emotional aspects, such as self-esteem, peer affiliation, and inter-personal relationships. However, low achieving…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Peer Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Litvack, Andrea; Mishna, Faye; Bogo, Marion – Journal of Social Work Education, 2010
An exploratory study using qualitative methodology was undertaken with recent MSW graduates (N=12) from 2 graduate social work programs to identify and describe the students' emotional reactions to experiences in field education. Significant and interrelated themes emerged including the subjective and unique definitions of emotionally charged…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Work, Field Experience Programs, Field Studies
Hossain, Tarique M. – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
With the proliferation of Web sites that allow students to praise or disparage their instructors depending on their whims, instructors across the country essentially are becoming subjects of comparison shopping by prospective students. Using a sample survey of 258 students majoring in business at a public university on the west coast of the United…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Attitudes, Business Education, Student Behavior
del Valle, Jorge F.; Bravo, Amaia; Lopez, Monica – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The authors carried out an assessment of social support networks with a sample of 884 Spanish adolescents aged 12 to 17. The main goal was to analyze the development of the figures of parents and peers as providers of social support in the two basic dimensions of emotional and instrumental support. In peers, they distinguished between the contexts…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Adolescents, Social Networks, Parent Influence
McClintock, Elizabeth Aura – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
This paper unites quantitative and qualitative data from the College Social Life Survey (n = 732) to describe and explain patterns of racial homophily in undergraduate sexual/romantic relationships at an elite university, a closed social setting. It expands the literature on interracial romantic unions by comparing homophily in hookups…
Descriptors: Race, Social Life, Racial Segregation, Student Diversity
Ellis, Michael – T.H.E. Journal, 2010
Upgraded with new features and components, the learning management system (LMS) has transformed into a platform that allows teachers to answer the challenges of 21st century education. Educators are taking full advantage of the new features that LMS vendors are regularly adding to their platforms. Although the formative years of LMSs trace back…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Management Systems, Electronic Publishing, Internet
Luque, John; Tyson, Dinorah Martinez; Lee, Ji-Hyun; Gwede, Clement; Vadaparampil, Susan; Noel-Thomas, Shalewa; Meade, Cathy – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network (TBCCN) is one of 25 Community Network Programs funded by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities with the objectives to create a collaborative infrastructure of academic and community based organizations and to develop effective and sustainable interventions to…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Cancer, Social Networks, Community Health Services
Huffaker, David – Human Communication Research, 2010
The purpose of this article is to examine the communication behaviors of online leaders, or those who influence other members of online communities in triggering message replies, sparking conversation, and diffusing language. It relies on 632,622 messages from 33,450 participants across 16 discussion groups from Google Groups that took place over…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Network Analysis, Discussion Groups, Social Influences
Angelides, Panayiotis – School Leadership & Management, 2010
Through two school case studies in Cyprus, in this paper I explore the role of small internal collaborative networks in promoting school improvement. The analysis of the two cases revealed a series of interrelated themes which indicated issues related to school improvement, and actually, it provided evidence that small internal collaborative…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement
Carroll, Brian; Landry, Katie – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
The purpose of this article is to explore how and why younger Internet users of social networking platforms such as MySpace and Facebook maintain connections with those who have died or been killed. This article, therefore, examines the blurring or blending of interpersonal communication and mass communication via the web as what once was very…
Descriptors: Death, Emotional Response, Grief, Recall (Psychology)