Potential immigrants increasingly rely on online technologies to access needed information as they have limited offline sources of at the pre-arrival stage. The purpose this paper is investigate role discussion forums in facilitating potential immigrants’ relevant about host country labor market. This draws extant literature computer-mediated communication and a qualitative content analysis 363...

This paper presents early results from using an asynchronous web-based discussion forum coupled with an integrated student peer rating system as one component of an Information Technology course taught in large section format. The potential for asynchronous discussions to enhance student participation and learner outcomes has previously been established (Anderson & Elloumi, 2004, Corich et al.,...

OBJECTIVES This paper outlines a new method of teaching health informatics to large numbers of students from around the world through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). METHODS The Health Informatics Forum is a social networking site for educating health informatics students and professionals [corrected]. It is running a MOOC for students from around the world that uses creative commons lic...

In this paper a method for extracting semantic information from online music discussion forums is proposed. The semantic relations are inferred from the co-occurrence of musical concepts in forum posts, using network analysis. The method starts by defining a dictionary of common music terms in an art music tradition. Then, it creates a complex network representation of the online forum by match...

The Rice Forum Committee has announced its next Forum date as November 12. This forum will .feature the Rics debate team and the team from T.S.U. debating the national inter-collegiate topic, "Re-! solved that the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist Government of China." The Forum will be held in "the Lecture Lounge at 8:00 P. M., and a f t e r the debate the par...

Massive online open courses’ (MOOCs’) students who use discussion forums have higher chances of finishing the course. However, little research has been conducted for understanding the underlying factors. One of the reasons which hinders the analysis is the amount of manual work required for annotating posts. In this paper we use machine learning techniques to extrapolate small set of annotation...

A summary of the discussion at the Institute of Medicine National Cancer Policy Forum Workshop to examine oncology workforce shortages and describe current and potential solutions.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of using Trigonometric Graphs, a teacher created web-based simulation, and asynchronous online discussion on students’ understanding of and performance in sketching transformation of trigonometric curves. The participants of the study were 29 Grade 9 students from a Singapore school. The students worked in groups of three or four in experim...

Content analysis was used to study interactions in an online health community support group relying on discussion forum software as a medium for discussions. We found that the overwhelming majority of the threads considered are on topic, which indicates that the discussion forum does contribute to the group's mission. By applying existing scales to measure the complexity of interactions from a ...

The open forum will be held tomorrow in the Chemistry Lecture Hall, beginning at 7:30 pm. Forum Chairman Paul Brewer expressed hope that "the discussion will touch a broad range of topics, not just the colleges and the curriculum." He suggested that the panel might touch on areas such as "course load for both students and teachers, the publish-or-perish controversy, the role of faculty as colle...