Increased pressure relating to employment schedules, finances, and family responsibilities, as well as the high-cost of post-secondary education and the limited availability of scholarships, has created an increased need for distance education. Distance learning research has defined certain problematic areas which must be addressed in an effort to enhance the distance learning experience. This ...

Background Efforts are made to enhance in-class learner engagement because it stimulates and enhances learning. However, it is not easy to quantify learner engagement. This study aimed to develop and validate an observation tool for instructor and student behaviors to determine and compare in-class learner engagement levels in four different class types delivered by the same instructor. Methods...

A reputation system assists people selecting whom to trust. The “all good reputation” problem is common in e-commerce domain, making it difficult for buyers to choose credible sellers. Observing high growth of online data in Hindi language, in this paper, we propose a reputation system in this language. The functions of this system include 1) review mining for different criteria of online trans...

The online reputation management systems help to the consumers to make buying decisions looking for opinions in the web about many products offered by companies, also interested in the same opinions. This paper presents the system developed by the SINAI research group at the WEPS-3 task, called Online Reputation Management. Given a Twitter entry and a company name, the goal is to decide if the ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if classroom laboratory time could be reduced in a basic physical agents course. Fifty-seven junior physical therapy students were randomly assigned to three laboratory sections. All students received identical lectures, demonstrations, course materials, and laboratory manuals. The control group, Section 1, received supervision and assistance during la...

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The influence of company reputation, or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe . To establish the western researcher’s external validity of theories in other count...