The highly recognized concept of "active listening" is widely adopted in contexts that involve gathering information and solving problems. Demanding both verbal and nonverbal skills, this way of communication improves mutual understanding by using techniques like paraphrasing. The benefits are manifold and crucial in many areas of life for all kinds of communicative settings – face-to-face as w...

Numerous studies address the ability of the computer-mediated communication (CMC) medium to carry social cues, e.g., social presence. This paper proposes to expand the study of social cues to include interpersonality measures directed toward messages within the CMC medium. Interpersonality is conceptualized as the joint measure of anticipated feedback and message coherence, factors that disting...

Team-based learning is an active learning instructional strategy used in the traditional face-to-face classroom. Web-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools complement the face-toface classroom and enable active learning between face-to-face class times. This article presents the results from pilot assessments of computer-supported team-based learning. The authors utilized pedagogical...

B physics results from the Belle experiment are reviewed. Precise measurements of Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements are made. Several decay modes are observed which will enable us to measure the CP angles, φ i in channels other than B 0 → ψK 0 modes. New rare decay modes are observed in many channels. Particular attention is paid to the first observation of the electroweak penguin-media...

This paper discusses findings from an extensive project examining gender, language and computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the context of undergraduate psychology courses. The contributions of 197 introductory psychology students (148 females, 49 males) participating in asynchronous CMC as part of their course were collated and coded for their language content using a qualitative content a...

The use of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) tools such as audiographic conferencing to provide tutorial support in Open Distance Learning (ODL) settings brings with it changes in roles and relationships between tutors and students which need to be researched to gain an insight into the learning experience of those teaching and being taught through the medium. In this paper we ...

This paper investigates interpersonal persuasion strategies in text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC). Significant differences were found in perceived effectiveness of CMC vs. face-to-face communication (FTFC) for achieving interpersonal persuasion and for applying persuasion strategies of reward, punishment, logic, and emotion. The findings suggest that persuasion in CMC will emphasi...

This work highlights the importance of verbal creativity, providing a productive online discourse definition, in which students intertwine convergent and divergent thinking by means of a transactional and controversial dialog. Developing the formulated productive online discourse definition, it is also presented and evaluated, an original scaffolding process designed here to further collaborati...

We present in this paper, the application of a novel approach to computational modeling, understanding and detection of social phenomena in online multi-party discourse. A two-tiered approach was developed to detect a collection of social phenomena deployed by participants, such as topic control, task control, disagreement and involvement. We discuss how the mid-level social phenomena can be re...

This articles examines the role of computer-mediated communication as well as broader interpretations of communication in Web-based instruction. Overviews of cognitive processing and cognitive constructivist paradigms are presented to illustrate their relevance for guiding development of Web-based courses. Instructional goals and communication strategies associated with these paradigms are iden...