A Study on the Social presence of International Students in Real-time Online Classes and Group Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 547-563
Author(s):  
Kyung Lee
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Resource Centre or Experience Desk? The Spatiality of Services to Indigenous and International Students at Universities in Ontario, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Jean Michel Montsion
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Student Services ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Indigenous Student ◽  
The Social

In recent years, Ontario universities have increasingly targeted Indigenous and international students for recruitment. Focusing on three southern Ontario universities, I examine how service delivery for these student groups is organized in space. In light of Henri Lefebvre’s work, I argue that the spatiality of the information hubs created to support them differs significantly, each being defined in the interactions between institutional assumptions about the student group, the social presence and activities hosted, and the lived experiences of the students utilizing these services. Whereas Indigenous student services are organized as a resource centre to create a separate space for Indigeneity on campuses, international student services take the form of an experience desk to emphasize rapid integration into the mainstream. Based on interviews with students and staff, I reflect on the differences between the two models to discuss the spatial politics of information hubs within the context of Ontario universities.  

scholarly journals Resource Centre or Experience Desk? The Spatiality of Services to Indigenous and International Students at Universities in Ontario, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Jean Michel Montsion
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Student Services ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Indigenous Student ◽  
The Social

In recent years, Ontario universities have increasingly targeted Indigenous and international students for recruitment. Focusing on three southern Ontario universities, I examine how service delivery for these student groups is organized in space. In light of Henri Lefebvre’s work, I argue that the spatiality of the information hubs created to support them differs significantly, each being defined in the interactions between institutional assumptions about the student group, the social presence and activities hosted, and the lived experiences of the students utilizing these services. Whereas Indigenous student services are organized as a resource centre to create a separate space for Indigeneity on campuses, international student services take the form of an experience desk to emphasize rapid integration into the mainstream. Based on interviews with students and staff, I reflect on the differences between the two models to discuss the spatial politics of information hubs within the context of Ontario universities.

scholarly journals The Level of Community of Inquiry (CoI) Presences in Online Classes among MSU BTESL Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Al-Saggaf ◽  
Amierah Syazwaniey Rosli
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
The Social

Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a framework that acknowledges the importance of the environment in shaping the educational experience. According to this framework, teaching, social, and cognitive presences are essential for an optimal online learning experience. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of each of these presences in online classes among Management and Science University (MSU) Bachelor in Education – TESL (Hons). The instrument used for the research tool was adapted from the original CoI framework survey, (Arbaugh et al, 2008). The questionnaire consists of 20 items; six items for teaching presence, another six items for social presence and eight items for the cognitive presence. 263 students who are currently doing the programme participated in the study. The findings concluded that, all three presences are present in high or strong level in online classes among MSU BTESL students with the most substantial presence in online classes among MSU BTESL students being the cognitive presence, followed by the teaching presence and lastly the social presence.

The Use of Social Media to Facilitate Real-Time eLearning

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Njoroge P. Kahenya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Private University ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Google Docs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The case study focused on the motivation behind usage of social media as alternative tools to the institution's eLearning program, by online classes' facilitators, at a local private university in Kenya. The case study involved 45 faculties involved in facilitating online classes. The survey applied questionnaires generated using Google docs, one of the social media tool used by the same faculty to communicate with students enrolled in the online classes. The primary reasons why facilitators used social media tools were; the learners were already using social media for non-academic purposes and therefore the need to factor in tools which students are conversant with and comfortable to use; social media tools were seen to offer a fast real-time communication; some social media tools enabled group discussions on the go; and, social media are informal tools for general instructions and guidance with regard to the course requirements.

Realism 2.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 663-679
Author(s):  
Augusta Rohrbach
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Data Modeling ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social

This chapter looks to the future of teaching realism with Web 2.0 technologies. After discussing the ways in which technologies of data modeling can reveal patterns for interpretation, the chapter examines how these technologies can update the social-reform agenda of realism as exemplified by William Dean Howells’s attempted intervention into the Haymarket Riot in 1886. The advent of Web 2.0 techologies offers students a way to harness the genre’s sense of social purpose to knowledge-sharing mechanisms to create a vehicle for political consciousness-raising in real time. The result is “Realism 2.0,” a realism that enables readers to engage in their world, which is less text-centric than it was for previous writers.

“Please tidy up before leaving”: nudging Airbnb guests toward altruistic behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ranson ◽  
Daniel Guttentag
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This study aimed to investigate whether increasing the social presence within an Airbnb lodging environment could nudge guests toward altruistic cleaning behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The study was based around a theoretical framework combining the social-market versus money-market relationship model, nudge theory and social presence theory. A series of three field experiments were conducted, in which social presence was manipulated to test its impact on guest cleaning behaviors prior to departure. Findings The experimental results confirmed the underlying hypothesis that an Airbnb listing’s enhanced social presence can subtly induce guests to help clean their rental units prior to departure. Originality/value This study is the first to examine behavioral nudging in an Airbnb context. It is also one of the first field experiments involving Airbnb. The study findings offer clear theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Graph node rank based important keyword detection from Twitter

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukesh Kumar ◽  
Palak Rehan
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
English Language ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Levenshtein Distance ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Keyword Detection ◽  
Product Launches ◽  
Process Detection ◽  
Good Resource

Social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp etc. are most commonly used medium for sharing news, opinions and to stay in touch with peers. Messages on twitter are limited to 140 characters. This led users to create their own novel syntax in tweets to express more in lesser words. Free writing style, use of URLs, markup syntax, inappropriate punctuations, ungrammatical structures, abbreviations etc. makes it harder to mine useful information from them. For each tweet, we can get an explicit time stamp, the name of the user, the social network the user belongs to, or even the GPS coordinates if the tweet is created with a GPS-enabled mobile device. With these features, Twitter is, in nature, a good resource for detecting and analyzing the real time events happening around the world. By using the speed and coverage of Twitter, we can detect events, a sequence of important keywords being talked, in a timely manner which can be used in different applications like natural calamity relief support, earthquake relief support, product launches, suspicious activity detection etc. The keyword detection process from Twitter can be seen as a two step process: detection of keyword in the raw text form (words as posted by the users) and keyword normalization process (reforming the users’ unstructured words in the complete meaningful English language words). In this paper a keyword detection technique based upon the graph, spanning tree and Page Rank algorithm is proposed. A text normalization technique based upon hybrid approach using Levenshtein distance, demetaphone algorithm and dictionary mapping is proposed to work upon the unstructured keywords as produced by the proposed keyword detector. The proposed normalization technique is validated using the standard lexnorm 1.2 dataset. The proposed system is used to detect the keywords from Twiter text being posted at real time. The detected and normalized keywords are further validated from the search engine results at later time for detection of events.

How social presence influences impulse buying behavior in live streaming commerce? The role of S-O-R theory

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junlan Ming ◽  
Zeng Jianqiu ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
Umair Akram ◽  
Mingyue Fan
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Consumer Trust ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Flow State ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impulsive Buying ◽  
Sense Of Power

Purpose This paper aims to examine how presence (the social presence of live streaming platforms, of viewers, of live streamers and telepresence) affects consumer trust and flow state, thus inducing impulsive buying behaviors, personal sense of power as moderator. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework, the conceptual model covers social presence, telepresence, consumer trust, flow state, personal sense of power and impulsive buying behavior. An online survey was conducted from 405 consumers with the experience of live streaming shopping in China; structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. Findings Results find that three dimensions of social presence (the social presence of live streaming platforms, of viewers, of live streamers) and telepresence have a positive and significant influence on consumer trust and flow state, thus triggering consumers’ impulsive buying behavior. Furthermore, consumers’ sense of power moderates the process from consumer trust, flow state to impulsive buying behavior. Practical implications This study will help live streamers and e-retailers to have a further understand on how to stimulate consumers’ buying behavior. Furthermore, it also provides reference for the development of live streaming commerce in other countries. Originality/value This research examines the effect of social presence and telepresence on impulsive buying behavior in live streaming commerce, which is inadequately examined in extant literature.

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