The general purpose of this article is to identify the influencing factors on rural women participation inagricultural extension programs in Mazandaran Province. Therefore, using multi-stage sampling, 300 ruralwomen were selected randomly. The research instrument was a semi-structured questionnaire. Results showthat rural women participation in agricultural extension programs is at average leve...

Online health forums provide advice and emotional solace to their users from a social network of people who have faced similar conditions. Continued participation of users is thus critical to their success. In this paper, we develop machine learning models for predicting whether or not a user will continue to participate in an online health forum. The prediction models are trained and tested ov...

The extension and transformation of political participation is dependent on widespread deliberation supported by information and communication technologies. The most commonly found examples of these eParticipation systems are political discussion forums. Though much of the discussion of these technologies is conducted in the eGovernment and (particularly) the eDemocracy literature, political di...

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,”...

The purpose of this study was to explore group forming strategies by examining participation behaviours during whole class discussions associated with active participation in a following small group activity. Written communication data, posted in class discussion forums (843 messages/70,432 words) and small group forums (732 messages/59,394 words), were analyzed quantitatively. The result indic...

Active citizen participation facilitated by information technology can have profound implications for democracy and civic discourse. In this paper we describe a continuum of tools that encourage active participation by citizens. We use a comprehensive review of the web-sites of the 50 States of the U.S. to chart the current position of the country on this continuum. We find that these G2C initi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to elucidate the roles of knowledge related to lymphatic filariasis (LF), contributions of taking roles in community activities to eradicate LF and participation in traditional village forums in adherence to mass drug administration (MDA) in a preventive chemotherapy program targeted at the community residents. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey on ingestion of...

Discussion forums in massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a primary means of interaction among learners and instructors. Despite their widespread use there is concern that forums are not an effective means of promoting engagement and learning. This paper examines issues relating to forums through a brief literature review and by drawing on data from a specific MOOC run by the University of W...

Political theorists likeAlexis deTocqueville have long recognized the importance of citizen associations for the practice of democracy. Through participation in associations, citizens both receive an education in public affairs and create centers of political power independent of the state. Essential to participation in an association is participation in a forum, a communication space that allo...

the main purpose followed in the ongoing research was to investigate the role of the extension factors (experience of familiarity with agricultural extension services, participation of paddy farmers in extension - educational courses, their participation in farmer field school (ffs) programs, and their number of extension contacts regarding ipm) in the adoption of ipm technology among paddy far...