Effect of campus experience and sex difference on distance judgment in a campus environment.

Air Quality Forecasting on Campus Grid Environment

Air Quality Forecasting (AQF) is a new discipline that attempts to reliably predict atmospheric pollution. The application has complex workflow and in order to produce timely and reliable forecast results daily, each execution requires multiple computational and storage resources to be simultaneously and collaboratively available. Deploying AQF on grid is one option to satisfy such needs, but r...

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Enhanced Mixed Campus and Distance Higher Education

In recent years, several applications of modeling are proposed for the purpose of virtual classroom by authors active in this area. Considering one of them, the authors of this paper studied the possibilities and difficulties of introduction of model based distance learning into every day higher education practice. They surveyed some important issues and methodological elements of virtual class...

Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus.

Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study with a group of students at a South African university, drawing on narratives that speak to the dynamics of reportedly widespread transactional sex o...

Online Interaction Between On-Campus and Distance Students: Learners' Perspectives

This paper addresses postgraduate students’ perspectives toward online interaction between on-campus and distance students through online collaboration tools such as online discussion boards and Wikis. Data were collected from eight interview participants and 29 written survey respondents. Seven interrelated categories capturing the main features of on-campus students’ perspectives were generat...