Look who’s talking: Emergent evidence for discriminating between differences in listserv participation

This paper reports findings from a study of LookJed, the oldest and largest on-line forum for Computer Mediated Discussion among individuals interested in Jewish education. The study adopted a “cyber-ethnographic” approach, with postings to the forum seen as “acts of communication” that reveal what is important to their authors. An interest in exploring similarities between forum conversations and those in teachers’ lounges led to an investigation of Herring’s claim that most listservs do not include discussion at all, only the trading of information. This investigation found that active forum participants generally use the forum for discrete purposes, most commonly to exchange information about “subject matter” or “teaching material”, less commonly to exchange opinions and ideas, and rarely to do both. Integrating an analysis of patterns of contribution with an examination of their discursive content reveals six preeminent “types” among the population of contributors, each of whom participates in the forum in different ways and acts with different purposes. Although this typology is at best suggestive and needs to be tested against other listserv cases, its easy identification suggests that in order to better understand the cultures of virtual forums, it is important to pursue a more variegated characterization of listserv participants and their motivations than has typically been the case in CMD research where users are most frequently identified as either lurkers or fanatics, or as active or passive participants.     

Interaction in teacher communities: Three forms teachers use to express contrasting ideas in video clubs

Interaction and the expression of contrasting ideas are thought to be important components of teacher learning communities. However, criteria for identifying beneficial interactional practices are needed. In this paper we use the tools of conversation analysis to examine mathematics teachers' expressions of contrasting ideas in a video club setting. Using turn-by-turn analyses of talk, we describe criteria for distinguishing three forms for expressing contrasting ideas – open discussion, implicit critique, and serial turns. We consider potential implications of each form for teacher learning and conclude with suggestions to help teacher communities move between the three forms.     

珠江三角洲小城镇社区体育现状和发展对策的实证研究

小城镇体育是实现全面建设小康社会奋斗目标的重要保证,同时它对促使城乡体育在不断融合中走向一体化具有重要的战略意义。以珠江三角洲八个小城镇为对象,运用实证的方法,研究了珠江三角洲小城镇社区体育在管理、经费、场地、组织和指导,以及居民体育消费水平的现状和问题,并提出了发展和改进的对策。旨在为探索珠江三角洲区域经济一体化和城市群规模发展这一新形势下小城镇社区体育发展模式提供参考依据,并对我国其它地区小城镇社区体育的研究和建设起到示范作用。     

Knowledge collaboration among physicians in online health communities: A transactive memory perspective

Knowledge teams have emerged in online health communities (OHCs) where physicians collaborate spontaneously with others through the Internet to gather knowledge. Knowledge collaboration (KC) facilitates physicians’ communication and the provision of better services to patients in today's medical environment. However, the underlying mechanism through which KC improves team performance in OHCs is not clear. This study aims to advance understanding of the KC process by exploring the role of the transactive memory system (TMS). Real operation data from 1071 teams in a leading OHC in China used to understand both the antecedent and consequences of the TMS and the interaction effects among different dimensions of TMS. The findings have demonstrated that leader's capital was a critical factor in KC by promoting the effective TMS development and further affect both team's process and outcome performance. Positive moderating effects of coordination on the relationship between credibility and performance are also found. This study reveals for the first time the role of KC in improving performance in online health markets from the TMS perspective. The findings provide theoretical guidance to physician–physician collaborative teams with guidelines on boosting chances for higher performance.     

高校体育资源向周边社区开放模式的调查研究

运用文献资料、问卷调查和访谈等研究方法,对高校体育资源向周边社区开放过程中的活动开展、人事管理、资金管理、安全管理四种模式进行调查研究,实证表明高校体育资源向社区开放有一定的理论基础,并将有效推动大学和社区体育健身运动向纵深发展。     

Rethinking creativity: Present in expression in creative learning communities*

Often defined as originality and innovation and desired for the economic profits it can produce for both individuals and their societies, creativity has been examined in order to find ways in which it can be promoted through various instructional practices in and beyond schools. Nonetheless, creativity as a fundamental basis of human existence and learning in a shared world is largely understudied. In this article, I examine the commonly held assumptions of creativity as it is incorporated into educational practices—that is, the notion of creativity as developable and achievable, and often as measurable and evaluable. I explore some of the (negative) consequences of understanding creativity in this way and assert the need to reclaim the notion of creativity in order to recognize the ways in which creativity is a part of our everyday lived experiences, always including interactions with the bodily self, co-existing others, and the phenomenal world. Understanding creativity as an expressive mode and way of being in the world encourages a rethinking of creativity in education, positioning creativity as implicitly interwoven in the act of expression as it is undertaken in a community and advocating that this expression ought to be encouraged in both processes and products of learning.     

基于网络实践共同体的非正式学习研究

网络环境下的非正式学习是当前终身学习社会的战略主题,网络实践共同体是其重要载体和组织形式,它是非正式学习的典型形式。它具有高效的信息分享、知识创造、平台稳定、资源重用等学习特征。非正式学习通常经历萌芽期、发展期、成熟期和管理期四个循环发展阶段。     

城市居民社区精细化管理探析——以安阳市石油小区为例

精细化管理在提升职工素质,加强企业内部控制,强化链接协作管理、服务居民等方面发挥了积极作用.本文以河南安阳石油小区为例,对精细化管理进行了探索和分析.     

浅议社区在老年人精神赡养中的作用

养老问题一直是人们极为关注的问题。在物质需求得到基本满足后,老年人对精神的需求也越来越多强烈。作为老年人生活与活动中心的社区理应利用自身优势,为老年人的精神养老提供平台、创造条件。