Why Is It Difficult for Welfare Recipients to Return to Work? A Case Study through a Collaborative Online Community

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya Nepal ◽  
Cecile Paris
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Welfare Recipients

Gamification for Online Communities: A Case Study for Delivering Government Services

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 1441002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanat Kumar Bista ◽  
Surya Nepal ◽  
Cécile Paris ◽  
Nathalie Colineau
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Sustainable Operation

Gamification, the idea of inserting game dynamics into portals or social networks, has recently evolved as an approach to encourage active participation in online communities. For an online community to start and proceed on to a sustainable operation, it is important that members are encouraged to contribute positively and frequently. We decided to introduce gamification in an online community that we designed and developed with the Australian Government's Department of Human Services to support welfare recipients transitioning from one payment to another. We first defined a formal model of gamification and a gamification design process. In instantiating our model to the online community, we realised that our context applied a number of constraints on the gamification elements that could be introduced. In this paper, we outline the design and implementation of a gamification model for online communities and its instantiation into our context, with its specific requirements. While we cannot comment on the success of gamification to drive user engagement in our context (for lack of the possibility of a controlled experiment), we found our implementation of badges-based gamification a helpful way to provide a useful abstraction on the life of the community, providing feedback enabling us to monitor and analyze the community. We thus show how feedback provided by such gamification data has a potential to be useful to community providers to better understand the community needs and addressing them appropriately to maintain a level of engagement in the community.

scholarly journals Building on Strategic eLearning Initiatives of Hybrid Graduate Education a Case Study Approach: MHEI-ME Erasmus+ Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7675
Author(s):  
Radovan Madleňák ◽  
Stephen P. D’Alessandro ◽  
Agostino Marengo ◽  
Jenny Pange ◽  
György Iván Neszmélyi
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Strategic Commitment ◽  
Self Learning

Online courses are gaining popularity because they provide extensive and varied course material, information, knowledge, and skills, whilst also creating an effective educational online community. This research adopts a case study approach to focus on the teaching method and the manner in which a strategic commitment to eLearning provides scope for the development and implementation of top quality educational online fully accredited programs. Entrepreneurship focuses on developing businesses that add value and create wealth and prosperity in our societies. Therefore, entrepreneurship is a key area of learning for graduate students seeking to set up and operate their own SME organizations. It can serve as a benchmark for the teaching of other graduate subjects that require a sound correlation for the correlation of concepts and theories to the challenging complexities of the real world. The program was developed on the basis of the implementation of a state-of-the-art eLearning platform that allowed for a combination of varied self-learning and collaborative learning elements and activities within a single platform. This enabled students to access the online content material efficiently and effectively. It allows for the development of a program based on the flipped classroom teaching methodology. The underlying concept of the flipped classroom methodology is that effective eLearning should comprise both synchronous and asynchronous learning activities. This combination of self-learning and collaborative learning calls for careful planning by the tutor to ensure that the learning objectives are clearly defined for each activity and that the relevant deliverables are monitored. The content material for each subject course module was designed, developed, produced, and presented by the different project partners in a holistic manner structured to motivate participants to learn. The results of our analysis have shown that students were able to learn, discuss their projects, and cooperate during an online course in an effective and participant-focused manner with their tutors. The feedback given highlights the importance of ongoing communications between students and the tutors who often need to act as mentors to retain student engagement.

scholarly journals Constructing an Online MCAT Preparation Program as an Alternative to On-Site Preparation for Medical School

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berengaria Navarre ◽  
Norma A. Perez ◽  
Sarah Toombs Smith
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Hispanic Students ◽  
Summer Program ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Faculty Mentor ◽  
Program Administrator ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Individual Coaching ◽  
Didactic Material

Based on a successful five-week summer program, we constructed an online alternative to prepare Hispanic students to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). We used input from student premed advisors, students, a faculty mentor, a Verbal Reasoning coach, and the program administrator. Online activities were provided to support the student commitment of 10-12 hours per week for 12 weeks. We included didactic material, an online community, individual coaching, daily announcements, and structured activities to maintain student interest throughout the 12-week program. This case study may provide guidelines on the elements necessary to a successful online program.

scholarly journals Measuring Job Performance of The Economic Creative Business upon Women Enterpreneurs Base (Case Study at Online Bunda Community Bogor Branch Using Balance Scorecard Approach)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Indar Khaerunnisa
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Base Case ◽  
Balance Scorecard ◽  
The Past ◽  
Financial Perspective ◽  
Coverage Measurement

Balance scorecard has a privilege in terms of coverage measurement whichis a fairly comprehensive because while taking into consideration the financialperformance. Balance scorecard also consider the performance of non-financialperformance, namely customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth.Referring to the problems encountered by Member of Bunda Online Community, thisresearch examines: "Analysis of Company's Performance by Using BalancedScorecard Approach (A Case Study Economic Creative Entrepreneur at Bunda OnlineCommunity)." Because until now Bunda Online Community has not been using thebalanced scorecard to measure its job performance. The population of this study arepermanent employees and 100 samples are taken as respondents. As for thecustomer respondents specified by 52 respondents total reseller and costumer inBogor is only 52 reseller and costumer, however, it has obtained only 30 respondentswho participated. Data used in this study are primary and secondary data. Based onthe research and analysis, it can be concluded several things as the following: 1) Theperformance of the financial perspective on Economic Creative Entrepreneur in BundaOnline Community as a whole can be inferred or quite enough, in general financialratios increased except ROA and TATO. 2) The performance of the customerperspective on Economic Creative Entrepreneur in Bunda Online Community as awhole can be inferred bad, because of poor customer satisfaction in the company'sability to maintain customer retention is also bad while in the company's ability to docustomer acquisition is medium. 3) The performance of internal business processperspective on Economic Creative Entrepreneur in Bunda Online Community isenough, because innovation occurs only once during the past two years and there isnot declining operating activities due to consistent time on the production clothingprocess. 4) The performance of learning and growth perspective in the EconomicCreative Entrepreneur in Bunda Online Community may be concluded either onaspects of employee turnover or both criteria which decreasing employee productivity.Level of employee satisfaction is concluded less satisfied.

scholarly journals Researching online communities of inquiry through digital ethnography

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Neil Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Communities Of Inquiry

Research into providing effective online education has suggested an important goal for instructors is the creation of an online community of inquiry (CoI) where social, cognitive, and teacher presence are all important aspects of successful online learning. With reference to a recent reflective practice case study, this paper describes ways that the research on online communities of inquiry may be enriched through the use of digital ethnography. In the target reflective case study, data analysis tasks were designed and presented in an online VoiceThread site, promoting dialogic and multimodal engagement with data from actual research studies that are central to the module theme in teacher education. Interaction around these tasks is coded using the CoI framework. Ethnographic data from the participants was collected and coded using qualitative research protocols to contextualise the interaction data and provide a clearer understanding of how participants had come together throughout the module. The ethnographic data revealed some interesting concerns with online learning, including the use of technology as a barrier to participation.

scholarly journals Online Communities and Open Innovation

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 652-666
Author(s):  
Alberto Francesconi ◽  
Riccardo Bonazzi ◽  
Claudia Dossena
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Innovation Approach

Online communities are becoming an important way to support firms towards an open innovation approach. However, knowledge shared in an online community represents only a potential for firm's innovation aims. The effectiveness of exploration and exploitation of this knowledge depends on firm's absorptive capacity. In this work the authors focus on the time an idea, shared within an online community, takes to be transformed from a ‘potential' into a ‘realized' innovation by a firm. In particular, conceiving knowledge as a trajectory across pole of attraction rather than a linear process, the authors develop a model inspired by the solar system metaphor. Preliminary results from a case study are presented. They suggest firms may improve the effectiveness of absorptive capacity exploiting the mediation role of a software tool.

When Digital Technologies Enable and Threaten Occupational Identity: The Delicate Balancing Act of Data Scientists

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 1087-1112
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Vaast ◽  
Alain Pinsonneault ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Occupational Identity ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Optimal Distinctiveness ◽  
Critical Case Study

Occupations are increasingly embedded with and affected by digital technologies. These technologies both enable and threaten occupational identity and create two important tensions: they make the persistence of an occupation possible while also potentially rendering it obsolete, and they magnify both the similarity and distinctiveness of occupations with regard to other occupations. Based on the critical case study of an online community dedicated to data science, we investigate longitudinally how data scientists address the two tensions of occupational identity associated with digital technologies and reach transient syntheses in terms of “optimal distinctiveness” and “persistent extinction.” We propose that identity work associated with digital technologies follows a composite life-cycle and dialectical process. We explain that people constantly need to adjust and redefine their occupational identity, i.e., how they define who they are and what they do. We contribute to scholarship on digital technologies and identity work by illuminating how people deal in an ongoing manner with digital technologies that simultaneously enable and threaten their occupational identity.

Patterns of Interaction in Online Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Kevin Downing ◽  
Kristina Shin ◽  
Flora Ning
Keyword(s):  
Associate Degree ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
First Semester ◽  
What Works ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

This chapter describes a case study which examines detailed data related to student and tutor usage of an asynchronous discussion board as an interactive communication forum during a first semester associate degree course in applied psychology, and identifies ‘what works’ in relation to discussion board use. The case demonstrates how students gradually create an online community, but only if they are prompted in a timely and appropriate way by the course and assessment structure. Three distinct phases in online interaction are identified, and the case suggests these might be largely mediated by assessment tasks.

Intentional Communities of Practice, the Challenge of Interactivity

2012 ◽  
pp. 305-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Wiatt Powell
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Intentional Community ◽  
Community Portal

This chapter examines the support of social interaction in a cooperative, situated online learning environment, and the cultural barriers that hinder such intention and interactivity. The findings of a literature review suggest that the greatest challenge to intentional Community of Practice (CoP) is a sense of interdependence among CoP members, the authenticity of the practice or purpose, and a trajectory for the CoP’s future. This case study attends to these issues with a cohort of practicing teachers. It explores an initiative to nurture CoP with cooperative projects and with the support of an online community portal. The case challenges CoP theory from an intentional or instructional standpoint, and informs design and technology in support of CoP.

How Movember's Online Community Influences Australia's Men's Health Debate

2016 ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristyn A. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Treatment Gap ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Male Health ◽  
Community Influences ◽  
Raising Awareness

Contemporary research indicates hegemonic masculinity negatively impacts on the recognised global male health treatment gap, spurring debate around the promotion of male health conversation. Through a case study, this chapter explores how Movember Australia, a global NPO dedicated to raising awareness of and funds for male health illness, has utilised principles of value co-creation in its online campaign to promote conversation around men's health in Australia. Movember's facilitation of online community conversation, engagement and its utilisation of hegemonic masculinity to promote online male solidarity and resultant health conversation is investigated. Research references previous online male health research indicating effectiveness of three themes for health communication and conversation facilitation: personalisation, environment and trust.

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