The purpose of the study, in order to improve courses presented online environments based on Community Inquiry, is investigate relations among Inquiry’ presences (teaching, social and cognitive), learners’ characteristics (e.g. gender, age, occupational status, type registered program), ”e-readiness expectations”, satisfaction by using structural equation model. study group consisted 714 studen...

Since the mandatory switch to online education due COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, technology has gained more importance for teaching and learning environments. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is one validated frameworks widely used examine learning. In this paper, we offer an extension CoI framework survey, arguing that meaningful appropriate use technologies become a requirement today’s pandemic po...

BACKGROUND In 2007, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador established the Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing to examine problems with estrogen and progesterone hormone receptor tests conducted in the province between 1997 and 2005. Using the Inquiry as a case study, we examine the knowledge transfer activities used by the Canadian Cancer Society - Newfoundland and Labrador ...

Participatory action research (PAR) is a collaborative approach to inquiry for education and social change that is gaining increasing prominence in health education. This case study explores the use of PAR by and with a community of people with disabilities in addressing a polarizing issue in that community: death with dignity or physician-assisted suicide legislation. Following a brief review ...

Multimedia ethnographic researchers along with those persons they study have an opportunity to become a virtual culture of inquiry when using emerging computational tools for data analysis. As partners, this community can build narratives which convey messages to and with their readers. As readers contribute their own interpretations, the original story changes. Layers build; stories change; pa...

BACKGROUND College student community is the one with high risk of tuberculosis (TB). A systemic and standardized administration model for prevention and control of TB is significance in controlling TB spread in universities. Currently, the universities in China have not established the comprehensive and standardized administration system for TB prevention and control in college student communit...

the purpose of this inquiry is analysis of proportion between personal futures and occupational necessities and its influence on organizational commitment. information collection tools for measurement of organizational commitment was allen and myer questionnaire including 15 question, and for measurement of proportion between personal futures and occupational necessities, o*net questionnaires u...

Planning for regional security and crisis management could be supported by well performed exercises. These exercises should be evaluated from different views in order to investigate the participants learning from the exercise. Since the evaluation seldom rest upon established learning theories it will be difficult to evaluate if the exercise will lead to the stated goals. Authorities in the cou...