The eClassroom used as a Teacher's Training Laboratory to Measure the Impact of Group Facilitation on Attending, Participation, Interaction, and Involvement.

<P class=abstract>This paper describes and quantifies the role of group facilitation in an experiential, real-time, online, university level credit course entitled eAHSC/230 Interpersonal Communications and Relations. A new and unique group interaction pattern called parallel communication, as well as classical elements of group interaction are described and quantified. New measures of online group facilitation attributes with analogous face-to-face (F2F) counterparts are presented. Specifically, the impact of effective group facilitation on Attentiveness, on Interaction, on Involvement, and on Participation is explored. The paper also examines the eClassrom’s potential effectiveness as a real time teaching and training laboratory which also functions as a process observation tool that collects and feeds back interaction data, providing teachers and trainers immediate and ongoing measures of facilitation effectiveness.</P>

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Online Group Facilitation Skills

Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-563-4.ch067 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 354-358

Author(s):

Nancy White

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Group Facilitation ◽

Face To Face ◽

Wide Range ◽

Facilitation Skills ◽

Group Members ◽

Online Group ◽

Philosophical Underpinning ◽

The Way

Traditional face-to-face (F2F) group facilitation is a well-evolved practice. Roger Schwarz defined it as “a process in which a person who is acceptable to all members of the group, substantively neutral and has no decision-making authority intervenes to help a group improve the way it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions, in order to increase the group’s effectiveness” (Schwarz, 1994, p 4). Like most practices, facilitation includes a wide range of techniques and philosophical underpinning. For example, while Schwarz notes that group members can’t formally fill the role of facilitator, or do not have decision-making power, there are other models that include both these conditions.

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Enhancing the facilitation of online groups in higher education: a review of the literature on face-to-face and online group-facilitation

Interactive Learning Environments ◽

10.1080/10494820.2018.1451897 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 62-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Glyn Thomas ◽

Stephen Thorpe

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Group Facilitation ◽

Online Groups ◽

Face To Face ◽

Online Group

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Food consumption of women during holidays: fit, healthy, or relaxed?

Anais Brasileiros de Estudos Turísticos - ABET ◽

10.34019/2238-2925.2020.v10.30147 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1, 2 e 3) ◽

Author(s):

Caner Çalişkan ◽

Çiğdem Sabbağ ◽

Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu

Keyword(s):

Food Consumption ◽

Planning Process ◽

Social Roles ◽

Important Data ◽

Face To Face ◽

Data Source ◽

Role Of Women ◽

The Impact

During holidays, what, why, and how do women consume? Women’s attitudes and thoughts about food consumption should be researched in terms of their social roles. However, the important role of women in holiday planning process makes women's food consumption preferences and also behaviours an important data source especially for tourism managers. This study focused on the impact of holidays on women’s food consumption. For this purpose, face-to-face interviews were carried out with 15 women participants, who spent two holiday periods during the previous year – summer and winter – in Adıyaman, Turkey. According to the results of the survey, women’s food consumption preferences and behaviours change during the summer and winter holiday periods.

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An Exploratory Analysis of the Role of Emotions in E-Learning

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch074 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 563-571 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. A. Rentroia-Bonito ◽

J. Jorge ◽

C. Ghaoui

Keyword(s):

Learning Processes ◽

Learning Support ◽

Face To Face ◽

Learning Contexts ◽

The People ◽

E Learning ◽

Individual Learning Processes ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

Technology-rich environments are assuming a key role in the individual learning processes. Still, one of the major IT challenges identified in the education field is to establish e-learning as a credible and viable complement to face-to-face education. This represents a paradigm shift in the way of learning, which is driving changes at individual, process, institutional, and societal levels. However, despite last-decade advances in the application of usability principles in system design, there is still a need to better understand the people-technology fit in learning contexts. Current results, gaps, and issues define the challenges that dictate new requirements. Among these new requirements, minimizing the impact of the distance factor on communication and learning effectiveness calls for alternatives approaches. Due to the importance of communication among instructor and students in learning, the scope of this work focuses on exploring the role of emotions within the user and learning-support technology fit.

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Financing entrepreneurship in times of crisis: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the market for entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom

International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1177/0266242620937464 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (5) ◽

pp. 380-390 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ross Brown ◽

Augusto Rocha ◽

Marc Cowling

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Real Time ◽

Entrepreneurial Finance ◽

Time Data ◽

Face To Face ◽

Policy Interventions ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Real Time Data ◽

Start Ups ◽

The Impact

This commentary explores the manner in which the current COVID-19 crisis is affecting key sources of entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom. We posit that the unique relational nature of entrepreneurial finance may make it highly susceptible to such a shock owing to the need for face-to-face interaction between investors and entrepreneurs. The article explores this conjecture by scrutinising a real-time data source of equity investments. Our findings suggest that the volume of new equity transactions in the United Kingdom has declined markedly since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that seed finance is the main type of entrepreneurial finance most acutely affected by the crisis, which typically goes to the most nascent entrepreneurial start-ups facing the greatest obstacles obtaining finance. Policy makers can utilise these real-time data sources to help inform their strategic policy interventions to assist the firms most affected by crisis events.

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Predicting urban innovation from the US Workforce Mobility Network

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ◽

10.1057/s41599-020-00685-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Moreno Bonaventura ◽

Luca Maria Aiello ◽

Daniele Quercia ◽

Vito Latora

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Scaling Laws ◽

Census Data ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Past Research ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Professional Networks ◽

The Us ◽

The Impact

AbstractWhile great emphasis has been placed on the role of social interactions as a driver of innovation growth, very few empirical studies have explicitly investigated the impact of social network structures on the innovation performance of cities. Past research has mostly explored scaling laws of socio-economic outputs of cities as determined by, for example, the single predictor of population. Here, by drawing on a publicly available dataset of the startup ecosystem, we build the first Workforce Mobility Network among metropolitan areas in the US. We found that node centrality computed on this network accounts for most of the variability observed in cities’ innovation performance and significantly outperforms other predictors such as population size or density, suggesting that policies and initiatives aiming at sustaining innovation processes might benefit from fostering professional networks alongside other economic or systemic incentives. As opposed to previous approaches powered by census data, our model can be updated in real-time upon open databases, opening up new opportunities both for researchers in a variety of disciplines to study urban economies in new ways, and for practitioners to design tools for monitoring such economies in real-time.

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The Role of Responsive Leadership in Meeting Customers' Needs during Crises

International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management ◽

10.4018/ijcrmm.289207 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 0-0

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Education Institution ◽

Face To Face ◽

Leadership Attributes ◽

Leadership Support ◽

The Face ◽

Quantitative Results ◽

The Impact

This case study conducted to investigate the impact of a responsive leadership approach in meeting customers' needs in a higher education institution in the UAE during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, a mixed-method model has been used. The data has been collected from a convenient sample working and studying at Al Qasimia University Language Center, in fall 2020. This result indicates that the provided responsive leadership support during COVID-19 was effective and helped in motivating learners and customers to keep learning and making progress greater than what was shown before COVID-19, during the face-to-face teaching and physical assessment. Although the qualitative and quantitative results in this case study revealed a significant impact of responsive leadership approach on customers’ progress, there is still a need to conduct other researches to develop and validate a responsive leadership inventory to facilitate measuring of responsive leadership attributes in a large scale sample and/or population.

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Gamification in e-learning: The mitigation role in technostress

International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) ◽

10.11591/ijere.v10i2.21199 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 606

Author(s):

Faridiah Aghadiati Fajri ◽

RY. Kun Haribowo P. ◽

Nurisqi Amalia ◽

Dina Natasari

Keyword(s):

Technology Implementation ◽

Feedback Mechanism ◽

User Resistance ◽

Face To Face ◽

Digital World ◽

Business Applications ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

E Learning ◽

The Impact

The digital world demands graduates who are accustomed to deal with technology. Blended learning is one of the strategies by combining online media with face-to-face classes. It cannot be denied that students who interact with technology experience stress and tension. This condition have an impact on the learning process so that a way out is needed to bring it down. Gamification is a gaming technique that is applied to non-game applications to increase pleasure when interacting with these applications. This feature has been implemented in business applications, social media, e-commerce, and e-learning. However, the impact of playfulness in mitigating technostress has not been studied. This research examined the role of feedback mechanism and presentation mechanism in giving pleasure in LMS. Furthermore, this playfulness is expected to reduce the stress experienced by users. The research was conducted using a quasi-experimental method by giving participants time to follow the course with the gamification feature. The results showed that the gamification mechanism is able to provide pleasure which in turn will reduce the user's stress level. Based on the user-perceived of playfulness, gamification can reduce stress levels so it will reduce user resistance and increase the effectiveness of technology implementation.

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Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Body Characteristics Revealed in a Large Sample of Speed Daters

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550619882925 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 194855061988292

Author(s):

Morgan J. Sidari ◽

Anthony J. Lee ◽

Sean C. Murphy ◽

James M. Sherlock ◽

Barnaby J. W. Dixson ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Round Robin ◽

Reproductive Value ◽

Sexually Dimorphic ◽

Body Dimensions ◽

Large Sample ◽

Face To Face ◽

Pictorial Stimuli ◽

Body Shapes

While hundreds of studies have investigated the indices that make up attractive body shapes, these studies were based on preferences measured in the laboratory using pictorial stimuli. Whether these preferences translate into real-time, face-to-face evaluations of potential partners is unclear. Here, 539 (275 female) participants in 75 laboratory-based sessions had their body dimensions measured before engaging in round-robin speed dates. After each date, they rated each other’s body, face, personality, and overall attractiveness and noted whether they would go on a date with the partner. Women with smaller waists and lower waist-to-hip ratios were found most attractive, and men with broader shoulders and higher shoulder-to-waist (or hips) ratios were found most attractive. Taller individuals were preferred by both sexes. Our results show that body dimensions associated with greater health, reproductive value (in women), and formidability (in men) influence face-to-face evaluations of attractiveness, consistent with a role of intersexual selection in shaping human bodies.

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