During the last decade, Web 2.0 applications, including blogs, wikis, social networking, social bookmarking, media sharing, podcasting, etc., have received intense and growing educational and research interest (Clark et al. 2009; Ravenscroft 2009; Schroeder et al. 2010). It is widely considered that Web 2.0 applications, while not designed specifically for educational purposes, have a number of...

Medicalised maternity systems do not address spirituality as an aspect of childbirth and its practices care. Neglecting the spiritual nature may negatively affect psychological, emotional physical wellbeing. While there is growing interest in side a paucity literature on topic, hence lack understanding generally about how to attend women’s needs for support childbirth. To collaboratively throug...

Inquiries into adverse events make a significant contribution to the way risk is understood in modern society. Reports produced by panels of inquiry represent an important textual development, yet some aspects of such texts remain relatively underresearched. In particular, it is the manifest functions of inquiry reports that receive attention rather than their latent symbolic functions. This pa...

V 1 seems to be an unfortunate fact of life that getting elected requires political parI ties to make sweeping promises in relation to any issue on which they feel vulner^ able. Such promises then have a strong tendency to stifle debate and creative thinking in areas where these are plainly needed. One such area in Australia is the goods and services tax, so closely associated with the failure ...

In this paper, five studies are described which investigated the way in which tutors (both human and computer-based) were used to support a 'creative community of inquiry' in undergraduate musical composition. Each study involved a cycle around some or all of the following four elements • dialogue analysis • learning support system design • implementation of a learning support system • evaluati...

The adult education literature emphasizes community building in order to increase effectiveness and success of online teaching and learning. In this chapter the Community of Inquiry Framework that was developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000) has been introduced as a promising theory for adult learning in online environments. The chapter discusses the potential of the CoI framework to c...

This paper examines a multidimensional set of learning-engagement behaviors by students participating in a community of inquiry. Existing social-inquiry models of learning focus on students achieving shared understanding through solving well-structured problems. These models may not be appropriate for professionally-oriented, graduate online education where students derive distributed and parti...