Boughzala, I., de Vreede, G., & Limayem, M. (2012, October). Team collaboration in virtual worlds: Editorial to the special issue. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 13(10), 714-734
Summary:
According to Boughzala, de Vreede and Limayem (2012), there are five critical elements in a collaborative work practice: technology, people, information, process, and leadership. This article presents an organizational model that conceptualizes the five critical elements and provides a framework to highlight key insights and findings from past studies on virtual world collaboration. Realistic avatar versus less-realistic avatar in relation to level of user engagement is explored in the technology section. Human and social aspects of
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The article was published in issue 10. The abstract is specific and represents concisely the information conveyed in the article. The purpose for this article was to determine what is known about collaboration and to identify issues that require further investigation. The authors organized the information in numbered sections that made it easy for the reader to identify the critical element being explored. The authors identified pertinent literature from past studies throughout the article and wrote with clarity making it easy for the reader to understand their intended …show more content…
The authors emphasize the importance of considering students’ beliefs and approaches to collaboration and learning for examining online participation. Data collected and analyzed support the idea that effective web-based instruction is related to student conceptions. The authors argue that online learning should be examined as participation through students actively constructing meaning and contributing to others’ understanding in the community.
Critique:
Limitations and further research—possibility of reporting bias such as social desirability; concerns regarding relatively low reliability of some subscales of approach to learning so included info from previous studies with similar patterns; acknowledged teacher’s influence on students’ beliefs and approaches to collaboration so additional analyses were conducted. Objective of study was important to the field of study because contributions can be made in various areas such as assessing student collaboration and identifying indicators to help students work towards more sophisticated practice of
Baek, Y. (2008). What hinders teachers in using computer and video games in the classroom? Exploring factors inhibiting the uptake of computer and video games. Cyberpsychology & behavior: The impact of the internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society, 11(6), 665-71.
By joining an online community of educators who are all teaching and learning, we can post questions about our struggles and benefit from the suggestions given from other educators who may have experienced similar circumstances in their time of teaching. The topic of collaboration and the community of the school does relate well in the reading of this article by sharing how digital connections can engage and enhance your knowledge because the key to becoming a 21st-century instructor is to become a 21st-century learner (Ferriter,
Esea. " No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. " Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. N.p., 01 Jan. 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.
Power, A et al (2011) Family Futures; Childhood and poverty in urban neighborhoods, 1 edn., Bristol: The Policy Press. This book is based on research that focused on over 200 families who live in low income areas. These type of neighbourhoods have been poor, working class areas for a long time. New Labour (1998) promised to the communities that no one would be disadvantaged by where they live.
For centuries, professionals have collaboratively worked together to design and create support groups, websites and organizations to inform parents, children, young adult and educators about children with disabilities. The National Center for Learning Disability, Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support, SWiFT, TASH and the Universal Center on Universal Design for Learning website provides valuable information about our students with learning disabilities. Each website offers different programs, resources, tips and research to help parents and educators provide a life for students with learning students and behavioral problems. The National Center for Learning Disabilities was founded in 1977 with a mission to improve the lives of children and adults with learning and attention issues. In doing so, the organization has taken it upon themselves to transform schools, advocate for equal rights and the opportunity
1. Leung R. C. (2012). Health information technology and dynamic capabilities. Health Care Manage Review, 37(1):43-53. doi: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e31823c9b55.
Collaboration with health care recipients, colleagues, and other healthcare providers is very important to accomplish the optimum health outcomes. Collaboration is the process of two or more people working together to achieve something successfully. In relationship to my project, collaboration is the most important in working with my facilitator, other staff, managers, administrators, doctors, researchers, and patients. The technology we have today helps the collaboration process immensely by working together and interacting with the internet, using a computer to email to make an appointment with my facilitator, find evidence base research for my project, communicate with other hospital staff to achieve the optimum health for the patients we
References School Bullying Linked to Lower Academic Achievement. (2017). Education Digest. The article, "School Bullying Linked to Lower Academic Achievement", by the American Psychological Association (APA), expresses how vital the prevention of bullying is to children (from elementary to high school), as it can lead to many severe side-effects that will undoubtedly change their lifestyle forever.
Build Systems of Data Collection: Countries must invest in collecting accurate data on the degree to which students with disabilities have access to general education, including the amount of time actually spent in general education classrooms. This data can be used to identify schools and communities in need of support in better educating and including their students with disabilities. Provide Educators with a Robust Program of Pre-Service and In-service Preparation on Inclusive Education: First, attitudes matter a great deal and attitudes among educators are often negative, and those attitudes can carry over into the classroom and the school. Teachers and school leaders need opportunities to both confront these attitudes and to see how successful inclusion can work. Secondly, educators must learn classroom techniques that can help students
Professor Todd Myers International Relations 10 May 2018 What factors influence the differences among nations in support and in opposition for legalizing sex work? Abstract In most countries, prostitution or sex work, which is defined as “the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment” [1] is criminalized.
Background Information The United States is facing a dropout crisis, with an estimated 1.1 million members of the 2012 high school graduating class not earning diplomas (U.S Department of Education, 2012). According to the United States Department of Education students who live in two parent homes, and are considered to live in a stable environment are more prone to graduating from high school with a higher GPA than those living in impoverished areas. The search for solutions to the problem of low achievement in schools serving children raised in poverty is not a new phenomenon. Title I has recognized the needs of poor children and the schools that serve them in large numbers through the allocation of additional resources. Educators rarely
For my research project this semester, I would like to focus on Southern African Countries, such as, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia and their government’s response to the increasing cases of HIV/Aids across the region. For this project, I feel it would be useful to create a policy recommendation that’s outlines the problems with HIV/Aids in Africa and hopefully create a solution to decrease the cases to this plaguing issue. My proposed solution to decrease the rising cases of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa would be to devote more financial resources to educational programs and build health clinics across South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, which will encourage testing. The following question, “Southern African Countries, such as, South Africa,
BRITT, D. M. (2015). HOW TO BETTER ENGAGE ONLINE STUDENTS WITH ONLINE STRATEGIES. College Student Journal, 49(3), 399-404. Distant learning better prepares a student for their future by teaching more marketable skills and job focusing than traditional learning schools.
What can a professor do in order to engage communication with students? What things need to be improve with the current online platform? These questions are important because they related to the main problematic question: how to change the way online courses are taught? The research was conducted over several days throughout the end of May 2017 and the beginning of June 2017. The research mainly includes articles found in several academic journals that conducted studies on online learning.
HOW TO MAKE CITATIONS ON YOUR RESEARCH PAPER In formally writing a paper, you must know how to make a citation whenever you refer to outside sources of information. The list of bibliographic citations gives credit to those whose ideas you have referred to or quoted, gives your paper authority and presents information your readers can use to find further information such as information about the author, the title of the work, the name and location of the company that published the copy of your source, the date your copy has been published, the page of numbers of the material you have borrowed, etc. But why do you need to cite sources?