The Community of Inquiry (COI) theoretical framework suggests that successful higher education experiences are supported by the presence and interaction of cognitive, social and teaching elements. Since the COI model has been widely used for examining quality of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) educational interactions, its applicability to synchronous CMC interactions is rela...

I aim to strengthen Social Design inquiries by introducing lenses from Performance Studies and Anthropology for acquiring better understandings of how social designers navigate performative processes practice research. draw upon experiences in co-producing modes as an everyday theatre. A design research project supporting citizens, public private partners different ways which communities senior...

The design of a web-based, networked learning environment, Future Learning Environment Tools (FLE-Tools) embodies a model of progressive inquiry. In this paper, we introduce the progressive inquiry model and describe how different modules FLETools are designed to facilitate participation in this kind of inquiry. Results of a pilot experiment of using FLE-Tools in higher education are presented....

Presented at RepliCHI2013. Copyright c © 2013 for the individual papers by the papers authors. Copying permitted only for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. Abstract Replication of prior results has recently attracted attention and interest from the CHI community. This paper focuses on the challenges and issues faced in carrying out meaningfu...

background: previous studies have reported the antifertility activities of sulfonamides. this study was designed to evaluate the effects of co-trimoxazole and its co-administration with folic acid on ovarian tissue in female rats. methods: a total of 54 rats were randomly divided into 9 groups (n=6) . group i served as the control and group ii (vehicle) received saline. other groups, iii to ix,...