BACKGROUND in this present era, the technology development has established certain type of communication. Nowadays education as the fundamental principle in transferring cognition to the learners has found various methods. Recently the concept that social networks could be effective tool in easing the achievement to the educational goals has been under attention. Therefore, this investigation i...

Social media, including blogs, Twitter, wikis, Facebook, YouTube, and Ning, provides an opportunity for nurse educators to engage undergraduate nursing students who are members of the millennial generation in active learning while enhancing knowledge and fostering communication. Despite the rise of social media usage in undergraduate nursing education, there is a significant deficiency of empir...

The emergence of social network sites has revolutionized communication tools for facilitating teaching and learning activities. There is little research regarding the adoption of SNSs in teaching and learning activities. In this paper the wide range definitions of social network that van be categorized as informal and formal social network sites in educational system and different models of soc...

One way of getting a better view of data is by using frequent patterns. In this paper frequent patterns are (sub)sets that occur a minimal number of times in a stream of itemsets. However, the discovery of frequent patterns in streams has always been problematic. Because streams are potentially endless it is harder to say if a pattern is frequent or not. Furthermore, the number of patterns can ...

In the recent past Environmental Education (EE) has been introduced as one of the core course in the curriculum of higher education in India. The objective was to make every student aware of the biodiversity and infuse a pro-environmental attitude in them. The efforts to achieve this objective through traditional methods of classroom teaching, predefined syllabus and textbooks has not produced ...

The purpose of this article is to explain how to conduct a multinomial logistic regression (MLR) to increase its usage among social work researchers. A challenge for social work researchers carrying out practice-based research is to incorporate statistical analyses that are comprehensible to clinicians. Another challenge is that categorical variables, as opposed to continuous, commonly occur in...

The dissemination of information in social networks and the relative effect of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) use has long been an interesting area of study in the field of sociology, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. To date, a lot of research has been conducted regarding an actor’s mobile phone usage behavior while disseminating information w...

OBJECTIVE To study how social interactions influence physician adoption of an electronic health records (EHR) system. DESIGN A social network survey was used to delineate the structure of social interactions among 40 residents and 15 attending physicians in an ambulatory primary care practice. Social network analysis was then applied to relate the interaction structures to individual physicia...