This paper investigates in the effects of using electronic communication forms in webbased environments. Following the idea of triangulation, we used qualitative methods, statistical analysis and Social Network Analyses to explore the patterns of communication within one selected case of a mixed presence/web-based university course. The results show that while an isolated perspective does not s...

It is considered that Web services have had a tremendous impact on the web as a potential silver bullet for supporting a distributed service-based economy on a global scale. However, despite the outstanding progress, their uptake on a web scale has been significantly less than initially anticipated due to higher usage thresholds. For instance, it is a hard task for service provider to seek appr...

Mobile technologies and Web 2.0 have led to explosions of communication, with a resulting increased need for people to process and utilize that new communication. This paper presents a new approach to create an integrated approach for learners by bring traditional education, mobile learning, along with social network into one adaptive blended learning environment. This approach introduces an ad...

background: the aim of this study was to survey the iranian parasitology researchers’ performance, and analyse and visualize the scientific outputs of their co-authorship network. methods: this study was conducted using scientometric method and social network analysis (sna). the data extracted from the web of science (wos) databases in july 10th 2014. totally, 1048documents of all types in rese...

A global Web services to support the delivery of service -based economy have had a tremendous impact on the web as a potential silver bullet. However , despite the excellent progress of a web rate has been significantly lower than anticipated at the beginning of their uptake. The isolation of services, the lack of social relationships among related services, inadequate trade-offs between the ex...

Portals providing the modeling of social relations among people became more and more popular. Although the existing FOAF (Friend of the Friend) ontology developed for modeling such social relations was introduced and enjoyed popularity, it is not used in such extent that it can be considered as World Wide Social Network. Such network can bring benefits (e.g., by providing useful analysis) only ...

Although the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) senior population is growing, there has been little attention given to identifying and understanding the needs and concerns of this growing population. This paper will present results from a series of focus groups and in-depth interviews with GLB elders from three select areas in the Midwest. Content analysis of the expressed beliefs, attitudes, and...

In current educational practice, web-based environments are an established means to support learning scenarios. In the study presented in this article, we use them as supporting tools for presence-learning scenarios and investigate the effects of electronic communication forms in this environment. Following the idea of triangulation, we utilised qualitative methods, statistical analysis and Soc...

In the Web 2.0 era, people not only read web contents but upload, view, share and evaluate all contents on the web. This leads us to introduce a new type of social network that is based on user activity and content metadata. Moreover, we can determine the quality of related contents using this new social network. Based on this observation, we introduce a user evaluation algorithm for user-gener...