Using recent criticisms and suggestions regarding themulti-level perspective as stepping stones, the article aims to enhance the reflexivity in transition debates regarding social theories. To that end, the article discusses seven social science ontologies (rational choice, evolution theory, structuralism, interpretivism, ccepted 1 January 2010 vailable online 21 February 2010

The purpose of the articlewas to test effectiveness influence pedagogical conditions for online debates on formation future philologists’ professional competencies.Methods used:pedagogical observation, experiment, and students' self-assessment methods, mathematical statistical methods research results processing (t-Student's criterion), interviews, questionnaires. Dialogicality (communicative l...

The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated education model debate-argumentative writing and specifically suggest the teaching learning method in model. For this, I proposed a circulative debating argumentative including processes topic formation, outline creation, debating, writing, feedback, online term paper evaluation. One main characteristics that two activities circulate repetit...

This presentation is focused on the connections between online community and commerce/economics, particularly the rhetoric of community as it has been taken up by those in e-commerce endeavors. It makes the case that the most influential symbol for online community, the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) should be examined in light of sociocultural trends apart from Internet-related ones, most ...

E-participation applications enable online participation of citizens and interested stakeholder groups in political debates and strategic decisionmaking. The tools, channels and devices through which online participation takes place require proper design to support citizens, politicians and other actors. To incorporate the needs of these actors into the functionalities of an eParticipation plat...

Online surveys are becoming more popular as a means of information gathering in both academia and industry because of their relatively low cost and delivery. However, there are increasing debates on data quality in online surveys. We present a novel survey prototyping tool that integrates embedded learning resources to facilitate the survey prototyping process and encourage creating scientifica...

Devising pedagogical strategies that will engage students in ways which will assure the development of their skills of critique and analysis presents a challenge to tertiary teachers. This paper draws on data from a recent case-based evaluation study to argue that innovative assessment and the development of social presence in online learning environments can contribute to developing skills of ...