Student outcomes and perceptions of instructors' demands and support in online and traditional classrooms

In this study, seven graduate students were interviewed and 187 (91 online; 96 traditional) graduate students were surveyed about perceptions of differences in instructors' demands and support and student' motivation, self-regulation, satisfaction, and perceptions of learning in these environments. Results indicated significant differences in students' perceptions on all variables except self-efficacy. Results indicated a strong effect for differences between perceived instructor affective support in online and traditional classrooms. Although students in traditional classrooms ranked instructors' affective support higher, the variable had a stronger relationship with online students' satisfaction. Differences between online and traditional students' reports of instructors' academic support, instructors' demands, and students' satisfaction were significant with medium effect sizes. Results are important because they provide information about students' perceptions of the differences in environments created by instructors that relate to students' affective outcomes.     

Mobile users’ information privacy concerns and the role of app permission requests

Recent privacy-related incidents of mobile services have shown that app stores and providers face the challenge of mobile users’ information privacy concerns, which can prevent users from installing mobile apps or induce them to uninstall an app. In this paper, we investigate the role of app permission requests and compare the impact on privacy concerns with other antecedents of information privacy concerns, i.e., prior privacy experience, computer anxiety, and perceived control. To test these effects empirically, we conducted an online survey with 775 participants. Results of our structural equation modeling show that prior privacy experience, computer anxiety, and perceived control have significant effects on privacy concerns. However, concerns for app permission requests have approximately twice as much predictive value than the other factors put together to explain mobile users’ overall information privacy concerns. We expect that our findings can provide a theoretical contribution for future mobile privacy research as well as practical implications for app stores and providers.     

Satisfaction and post-purchase intentions with service recovery of online shopping websites: Perspectives on perceived justice and emotions

This study explores post-recovery satisfaction and post-purchase intentions with service recovery of online shopping customers from the perspectives on perceived justice and emotions based on twenty scenarios that combine five service failures and four recoveries. Analytical results indicating that in addition to enhancing post-purchase intentions and post-recovery satisfaction among customers, distributive justice increases positive emotions and decreases negative ones. Additionally, procedural justice enhances post-recovery satisfaction as well as increases positive emotions and decreases negative ones, while interactional justice only increases post-recovery satisfaction of customers. Moreover, while positive emotions increase post-recovery satisfaction, and vice versa. Post-recovery satisfaction positively affects post-purchase intentions. Results of this study provide a valuable reference for operators and managers of online shopping websites.     

The power of circulation: digital technologies and the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama

Focusing on the online Chinese fans of Japanese TV drama, this paper explores the way in which the fan subculture, in connection with digital technologies, has carved out alternative practices in the circulation, production and consumption of Japanese TV drama. As ‘minority audiences’ who are not targeted as the objects of capitalist interests, online Chinese fans invent spaces for Chinese transnational networking with self‐help and sharing, as a way of resisting the aloofness from marketing strategies of Japanese TV distributors in Asia. This case study reveals that the online Chinese fan clubs, the websites for downloads, pirated VCD markets, digital file conversion, and private VCD burning – all of these have linked endless networks for the digitalized circulation and consumption of Japanese TV drama. The online Chinese fans are guerrilla fighters in the politics of autonomy, network and low‐cost digital technology; they are attempting to break down time–space constraints and the official distribution hierarchy. Such fan practices shed light on the new trends of audio‐visual consumption via digitalization.     

Perspectives on peer-review: eight years of Aropä

Drawing on eight years of observation and correspondence from the Aropä project, we report on the issues important to academics who conduct on-line student peer-review activities, and the features they request to support their own instructional designs. The Aropä project is unusually broad, having so far supported over 100 instructors at 20 institutions across nine countries, almost one thousand activities, and more than 36,000 individual students. As the designers, developers, maintainers and advisors of an evolving and widely used tool, we use our unique position to report on the perspectives and priorities of instructors and students in this important and developing field.     

基于时尚体育家园自动化管理的互联网三维公共服务平台的研究

本文综合分析了目前基于互联网开发的体育旅游方面的相关网站现状,根据中国网民数量逐年激增的现象,提出关于时尚体育家园自动化管理的概念,融合体育产业、旅游产业、动漫游戏产业于同一参照系中,形成紧密互动、互为补充、资源整合的统一体,并以此构建起服务于体育旅游产业的互联网三维公共服务平台,以期在更广泛地虚拟世界中聚集网民的注意...     

Blending Learning视域下的高校网络课程探析

为了有效地实施网络教学,许多高校开发、建设大量的网络课程。基于Blending Learning理念,分析当前高校网络课程存在的问题,提出解决的对策：教师应转变教学理念,网络课程的教学目标应合理定位,课程学习资源建设应当加强,学习活动设计应当高度关注,加强对网络学习的评价。     

在线作业管理系统的设计与实现

作为网上教学支持系统的一个子系统，在线作业管理系统为师生提供方便的在线作业管理环境，实现自动化和无纸化作业管理。在线作业管理系统的关键功能包括布置作业、提交作业、批阅作业、统计作业等。文中结合深圳大学在线作业管理系统，详细阐述在线作业管理系统整体结构和关键功能模块的设计与实现。     

干部在线教育的现状与发展

提升干部教育培训信息化建设水平是干部教育培训工作改革创新的实施基础和重要途径。干部在线教育作为推进干部教育培训信息化建设的一项重要举措,为干部持续学习和扩大培训规模提供了新的平台。自2004年试点以来,干部在线教育工作在7年多的建设中取得了长足的进步,为广大干部提供了更多接受培训的机会。当前干部在线教育学员数量急剧增加、年龄差距逐渐拉大,学员的个性化需求对干部在线教育的资源建设、支撑平台、学习方式等提出了更高的要求,但国内干部在线教育学习资源建设水平参差不齐,未形成有效的质量评估体系。为进一步促进干部在线教育发展,应明确干部学员群体特征,重视资源内容和质量,利用新技术规划干部在线教育平台,“以评促建”,建立优质干部在线管理服务体系。     

Analytic Frameworks for Assessing Dialogic Argumentation in Online Learning Environments

Over the last decade, researchers have developed sophisticated online learning environments to support students engaging in dialogic argumentation. This review examines five categories of analytic frameworks for measuring participant interactions within these environments focusing on (1) formal argumentation structure, (2) conceptual quality, (3) nature and function of contributions within the dialogue, (4) epistemic nature of reasoning, and (5) argumentation sequences and interaction patterns. Ultimately, the review underscores the diversity of theoretical perspectives represented within this research, the nature of dialogic interaction within these environments, the importance of clearly specifying theoretical and environmental commitments throughout the process of developing or adopting an analytic framework, and the role of analytic frameworks in the future development of online learning environments for argumentation.