Research in online education has demonstrated that sense of classroom community is an important factor in learning. This study extends the research to the new learning environment of virtual worlds and compares classroom community and learning satisfaction with different learning tasks in two distance learning courses. Students’ perceptions of classroom community and learning satisfaction were ...

BACKGROUND Helpline services have become an increasingly popular mode of providing community access to information and expert information and advice in the health and welfare sector. This paper reports on data collected from 908 callers to UK-based breastfeeding helplines. METHODS A mixed methods design was adopted utilising a structured interview schedule to elicit callers experiences of the...

BACKGROUND With the medical reform, the function of community health centres emerged to be more important recently in China. However, the health service capabilities were tremendously different between metropolitan cities and small cities. This study aims to clarify the level of job satisfaction of Chinese community health workers between a metropolitan (Shenyang) and a small city (Benxi) in Li...

community college computer instructors provide a valuable service by preparing students for challenging careers. at the same time, they face many challenges to stay current in their field and to maintain industry certifications. therefore, community college administrators need to determine what perceptions are held by computer instructors, address any negative perceptions, and determine if inst...

Servant leadership in today’s healthcare settings provides a unique avenue through which to assess leadership behaviors and the relationship to employee satisfaction and healthcare patient satisfaction measures. This study sought to determine the degree that leaders in community hospitals were perceived as servant leaders and the level of employee satisfaction at these rural community hospitals...

Although the relationship between job and life satisfaction has attracted much attention, little research has been undertaken in geographically remote settings. The present study addresses this deficiency by testing a causal model that incorporates job related, personal, environmental, and community related variables. The LISREL results based on a sample of 286 male employees from an open-cut c...

Background: Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) are the manifestation of community participation to solve health issues community, which is reflected through Integrated Services Post or known as Posyandu activities. Therefore, CHVs selection criteria need be upgraded support their performance in delivering services. This research aimed at identifying relationship between role leadership and Meth...

When people need help with their day-to-day activities, they turn to family, friends or neighbours. But despite an increasingly networked world, technology falls short in finding suitable volunteers. In this paper, we propose uHelp, a platform for building a community of helpful people and supporting community members find the appropriate help within their social network. Lately, applications t...