Community-based and participatory research methods challenge many commonly held beliefs regarding the basic nature of research and the ethics that inform our research practices. Action research, the term commonly used to refer to a broad range of these more collaborative research approaches, “seeks to bring together action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in th...

Community-based operations research is defined as the collection of analytical methods applied to problem domains in which interests of underrepresented, underserved, or vulnerable populations in localized jurisdictions, formal or informal, receive special emphasis, and for which solutions to problems of core concern for daily living must be identified and implemented so as to jointly optimize ...

The Editors are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning was again highly ranked by ISI’s annual “Impact Factor” report released several days ago. IjCSCL ranks #11 of the 203 journals ranked by ISI in the field of Education and Educational Research and it ranks #6 of the 83 journals ranked by ISI in the field of Information Science & Librar...

Increasing recognition of the complexity and importance of social determinants of child health has changed dramatically the scope, direction, and purpose of pediatric research. Considered in the context of the evolving research on the role of the human genome in determining the functional status of children and adults, the increasing focus on the social determinants of health emphasizes the nee...

This paper discusses principles and kinds of research community knowledge portals. It also presents a case study – experiences of a research group in establishing a knowledge portal, the kinds of practical efforts needed in such a project, the major hurdles and pitfalls on the way, and the lessons learned. Although the case study discusses a research community knowledge portal in a specific res...

OBJECTIVE: To introduce a human capital approach to reduce health disparities in South Carolina by increasing the number and quality of trained minority professionals in public health practice and research. METHODS: The conceptual basis and elements of Project EXPORT in South Carolina are described. Project EXPORT is a community based participatory research (CBPR) translational project designe...

Following the goals of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), this paper describes how Native Hawaiian values emerged as a methodology for the conduct of a study with Native Hawaiians residing in Southern California. The equitable placing of community values side by side with scientific values show that community concepts can parallel and extend CBPR premises and are more than a variabl...

This paper describes a field study to investigate whether and to what extent individuals conserve more electricity if they have the opportunity to signal their behavior to others in the online community. Moreover, the study intends to reveal how positive social sanctions (e.g., publicly rewarding people who reduce their energy consumption) and negative social sanctions (e.g., publicly warning p...

In this paper, we explore various search tasks that are supported by a social bookmarking service. These bookmarking services hold great potential to powerfully combine personal tagging of information sources with interactive browsing, resulting in better social navigation. While there has been considerable interest in social tagging systems in recent years, little is known about their actual u...

Emancipatory research challenges conventional ways in which knowledge is constructed within educational research. Using the Johanna Briggs methods, the authors conducted a systematic critical appraisal of the 45 quantitative emancipatory research articles published between 2000 and 2011 and provide a synthesis of findings. Type of studies, participants, and outcomes measure served as criteria f...