A problem-based learning (PBL) assumption is that silence is incompatible with collaborative learning. Although sociocultural studies have reinterpreted silence as collaborative, we must understand how silence occurs in PBL groups. This essay presents students’ explanations of dominance, leadership, and silence as PBL group roles. An ethnographic investigation of PBL groups, informed by social ...

Mainly for economic and maintainability reasons, more and more dependable real-time systems are built from Commercial OO-The-Shelf (COTS) components. To build these systems, a commonly-used assumption is that computers are fail-silent. The goal of our work is to determine how far it is possible to reach the fail-silence assumption for computers executing a real-time run-time support built exclu...

Drawing on narrative accounts of French business school staff and faculty about their experiences observations actions taken by different organizational actors in response to a trigger event, we theorize the intricate connections between practices conducive sexism persistence silence around such practices. Specifically, empirical investigation demonstrates how managerial as allocation tasks val...