As mandatory involvement requirements may not intrinsically motivate learners to achieve high quality learning, social factors under affective commitment are especially important determinants of TML success. This paper investigates an individual’s social and self identities as important determinants in developing affective commitment (identification) and intrinsic motivation (perceived enjoymen...

Although many agree that theory, research, and practice should be intertwined to support the type of schooling (and society) that values rather than marginalizes, few scholars offer ground-breaking, pragmatic approaches to developing truly transformative leaders. From a critical theorist perspective, this article offers a practical, process-oriented model that is responsive to the challenges of...

This research was designed to explore the learning experiences of state college students using mobile electronic textbook (e-book) readers. The purpose of the study was to build a rich description of how students used e-books delivered on mobile computing devices for college-level, introductory sociology courses at a public state college in the southeastern United States. This research employed...

This paper outlines the theoretical rationale behind a doctoral research project currently in progress. Through a multi-method approach, the project examines spontaneously-emerging communities of learning in and around massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) within the context of social learning theory, social networks, self-organisation, online communities and emergence.

2 Glivenko-Cantelli Classes 5 2.1 The classical approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1 The symmetrization procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.2 Covering numbers and complexity estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2 Combinatorial parameters and covering numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2.1 Uniform entropy and the VC dimen...

The technological opportunities provided by digital learning environments for electronic communicative transactions between learners and teachers, now common in Higher Education in the United Kingdom (UK) challenge the traditional concept of a learner and teacher relationship. This paper considers electronic interaction between learners and module facilitators and draws on a small study that ev...

People around the world use social media platforms such as Twitter to express their opinion and share activities about various aspects of daily life. In the same way social media changes communication in daily life, it also is transforming the way individuals communicate during disasters and emergencies. Because emergency officials have come to rely on social media to communicate alerts and upd...

The theory of rational social learning studies how individual decision makers are influenced by the actions taken by others when information is dispersed. We present and discuss some models of Bayesian social learning which recently appeared in the economics literature. We focus on the problems of information acquisition, stationarity of the environment and endogenous pricing, and we propose so...