Promoting contribution of content is a key challenge for platforms that support the collective creation or transfer of knowledge. We use a field experiment on a massive open online course to study the role of forum size (number of people in a forum) in ...

This poster presents the measurement of student engagement in a Facebook group for higher secondary school used as an educational scaffold. This mixed method research uses the student engagement instrument (SEI), adapted for the online environment. The ...

While college students traditionally exhibit low levels of political participation and interest in politics, they are more likely to engage in some forms of political expression than their elders. Their greater familiarity with online forms of political ...

This proposal aims to study user engagement pattern and how different incentive mechanisms influence user behavior in online communities. Work in this proposal investigates the diverse behavior patterns that different individuals follow in various ...

The use of Web-based technologies can provide powerful opportunities to transform small business engagement with their communities and markets. However, there are few studies on the adoption of social media by small businesses to determine their levels ...

Studying relations between customer characteristics and usability requirements for online services remains a challenging task in e-government services development. In this paper we present the findings from a survey conducted among the users of an e-...

Many governments now seek ways to generate ideas for public policies through online platforms. Although this concept is promising, further knowledge is needed to understand the factors associated with generating ideas within online communities in ...

This study investigates the effect of online and offline pre-purchase influences and the role of fashion brand involvement and online brand engagement in predicting purchase intention of products marketed in social media. A four-construct structural ...

Statway® is one of the Community College Pathways initiatives designed to promote students' success in their developmental math sequence and reduce the time required to earn college credit. A recent causal analysis confirmed that Statway dramatically ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which collect complete records of all student interactions in an online learning environment, offer us an unprecedented opportunity to analyze students' learning behavior at a very fine granularity than ever before.

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The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollments, MOOCs have the potential to become a major new mechanism for ...