Academic Discussions

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James Robins,1,3 Andrea Rotnitzky,2,3 and Stijn Vansteelandt4 1Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115, U.S.A. 2Department of Economics Universidad Torcuato di Tella Saenz Valiente 101

Social presence in online discussions as a process predictor of academic performance

With the steady development of online education and online learning environments, possibilities to support social interactions between students have advanced significantly. This study examined the relationship between indicators of social presence and academic performance. Social presence is defined as students' ability to engage socially with an online learning community. The results of a mult...

Virtual Classroom Discussions versus Traditional Classroom Discussions

The author of this paper designs, develops, and teaches online courses. This paper examines the students' constructive sociocultural interaction in which learning occurs. This paper compares the classroom discussions in virtual and traditional classrooms and analyses the virtual communication in greater detail according to their

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5. Discussions and Conclusion

The PVM is a system for distributed processing implementations that offers tools for communication between tasks, like point to point messages and broadcasts, and tools to control the spawning of tasks. It was chosen due to the simplicity it allows in the implementation of message exchanges between the agents, and because it allows the definition of which workstation a process must run. Besides...