The convincing evidence of the relationship between social support, social networks, and health status has influenced the development of program strategies which are relevant to health education. This article focuses on the linkage between social support and social networks and health education programs which involve interventions at the network and community level. Two broad strategies are add...

Intervention studies in school systems are sometimes aimed not at changing curriculum or classroom technique, but rather at changing the way that teachers, teaching coaches and administrators in schools work with one another—in short, changing the professional social networks of educators. Current methods of social network analysis are ill-suited to modeling the multiple partially-exchangeable ...

There are many opportunities for social technologies to create wider and more valuable educational communities. This paper presents an analysis of a Government initiative to create educational communities around schools in Victoria, Australia using social networking systems. The analysis, comparing several systems, shows that a number of factors, including interpretation of reactions by actors ...

this study aimed to study the risky behavior and its relationship with social capital amongst the high school students of kerman city. social capital theories of colman and putnam were selected as the theoretical framework. the abstracted variables of research model are social capital (network ties of respondent with teachers, family and friends. network ties of respondents’ family with school)...

In this paper, the author examines how the rapid penetration of Social Network Sites (SNSs) into everyday life affects higher education marketing. Among unique features offered by SNSs are unprecedented trackability of students’ interests, immediacy in responses, targeted personalization of marketing efforts, and low institutional financial obligations. Growth in Internet Penetration Rates and ...

The growth of social networking has gained much interest from the research community in recent years. Social networking technology as an e-learning tool seems promising for education instructors to combine distance education. Several analysis researches of social media were conducted for detection opinion leaders. While most of the existing algorithms proposed for communities determination are ...

INTRODUCTION Identification of Educational Influentials (EIs) in clinical settings helps considerably to knowledge transfer among health and medical practice providers. The aim of this study was identifying EIs in diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) by medical students (clerks, interns and residents) and providing their relational pattern in this subject. METHODS Subjects were medical students at cler...

The study of the social brain offers a number of opportunities for enhancing classroom education. This review focuses on the mentalizing network, a set of brain regions that support thinking about the thoughts, feelings, and goals of others. This network typically competes with brain regions supporting analytical thought and memorization. Rather than treating classroom learning and socializing ...

Socially isolated individuals face elevated rates of illness and death. Conventional measures of social connectedness reflect an individual's perceived network and can be subject to bias and variation in reporting. In this study of a large human social network, we find that greater indegree, a sociocentric measure of friendship and familial ties identified by a subject's social connections rath...