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Exploring Students’ Engagement Patterns in SPOC Forums and their Association with Course Performance
Get PDFWith the popularity of Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) in higher education, a plentiful of discussion data has been increasingly generated in SPOC forums. With 752 undergraduates’ discussion posts, this study aims to investigate students’ engagement patterns within SPOC forums in terms of engagement behaviors and emotions. Firstly, we designed a behavioral code rule to identify posting- and content-level behaviors, and examined their association with course performance. Secondly, we built an emotion lexicon including positivity, negativity and confusion word sets, and adopted an emotion calculation approach to visualize emotional evolutionary trends and to examine emotional differences in registration types and course performance. The results show that, (1) the high-performing group was more active in the most engagement behaviors except for interactive postings. (2) The registered group delivered more threads and wrote richer vocabulary in post content. (3) Whether students were registered for a course or not did not have a significant effect on their emotional expressions, but the registered group exhibited more confusion in forum interactions at the end of the semester. (4) Positive emotion was prevailing for the entire population. Furthermore, compared with the low-achieving group, the high- performing group had higher emotion densities in three types of emotions.This work was supported by the Research Funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61702207, L1724007), MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Grant No. 16YJC880052), China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201706775022), National Social Science Fund Project of China (Grant No. 14BGL131) , Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2018CFB518) and National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB1401303)
Digidem Digest - Issue 2 (May 2018)
No full textThe Digidem Digest literature radar was a monthly curated overview of the latest publications with relevance to the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" at the Weizenbaum Institute. Their research focused around the interrelation of digitalization and democratic self-determination, asking how liberal-democratic societies appropriate digital technologies and how democracy is changing within the digital configuration. The present articles and publications were chosen by observation of leading journals within the field - a list can be found at the end of each newsletter
Digidem Digest - Issue 0 (January - March 2018)
No full textThe Digidem Digest literature radar was a monthly curated overview of the latest publications with relevance to the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" at the Weizenbaum Institute. Their research focused around the interrelation of digitalization and democratic self-determination, asking how liberal-democratic societies appropriate digital technologies and how democracy is changing within the digital configuration. The present articles and publications were chosen by observation of leading journals within the field - a list can be found at the end of each newsletter
Intentional Forgetting in Organizations: The Importance of Eliminating Retrieval Cues for Implementing New Routines
Get PDFTo cope with the already large, and ever increasing, amount of information stored in organizational memory, “forgetting,” as an important human memory process, might be transferred to the organizational context. Especially in intentionally planned change processes (e.g., change management), forgetting is an important precondition to impede the recall of obsolete routines and adapt to new strategic objectives accompanied by new organizational routines. We first comprehensively review the literature on the need for organizational forgetting and particularly on accidental vs. intentional forgetting. We discuss the current state of the art of theory and empirical evidence on forgetting from cognitive psychology in order to infer mechanisms applicable to the organizational context. In this respect, we emphasize retrieval theories and the relevance of retrieval cues important for forgetting. Subsequently, we transfer the empirical evidence that the elimination of retrieval cues leads to faster forgetting to the forgetting of organizational routines, as routines are part of organizational memory. We then propose a classification of cues (context, sensory, business process-related cues) that are relevant in the forgetting of routines, and discuss a meta-cue called the “situational strength” cue, which is relevant if cues of an old and a new routine are present simultaneously. Based on the classification as business process-related cues (information, team, task, object cues), we propose mechanisms to accelerate forgetting by eliminating specific cues based on the empirical and theoretical state of the art. We conclude that in intentional organizational change processes, the elimination of cues to accelerate forgetting should be used in change management practices
Digidem Digest - Issue 5 (August 2018)
No full textThe Digidem Digest literature radar was a monthly curated overview of the latest publications with relevance to the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" at the Weizenbaum Institute. Their research focused around the interrelation of digitalization and democratic self-determination, asking how liberal-democratic societies appropriate digital technologies and how democracy is changing within the digital configuration. The present articles and publications were chosen by observation of leading journals within the field - a list can be found at the end of each newsletter
Digidem Digest - Issue 1 (March/April 2018)
No full textThe Digidem Digest literature radar was a monthly curated overview of the latest publications with relevance to the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" at the Weizenbaum Institute. Their research focused around the interrelation of digitalization and democratic self-determination, asking how liberal-democratic societies appropriate digital technologies and how democracy is changing within the digital configuration. The present articles and publications were chosen by observation of leading journals within the field - a list can be found at the end of each newsletter
Supplementary Material for “Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity?”
No full textAppendix A. Feminist Women: Sample Description
Appendix B: Principal Component Analysis and Cronbach’s Alpha of three Paradigms of Feminist Attitudes
Appendix C: Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient
Appendix D: Means and Standard Deviations on the Measures of General and Feminist Online Political Participation
Appendix E: Measures, Means and Standard Deviations of the Control Variable
Jahresbericht 2017–2018
Get PDFDas Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft hat im September 2017 seine Arbeit aufgenommen. Damit gibt es erstmals ein durch den Bund finanziertes Forschungsinstitut, das interdisziplinär und grundlagenorientiert die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Digitalisierung und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen erforscht und Gestaltungsoptionen für den digitalen Wandel entwickelt. Das erste Jahr der Förderung war geprägt von einer großen Dynamik, sowohl mit Blick auf den Aufbau des Instituts und erste wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse als auch mit Blick auf politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen im Bereich der Digitalisierung
Supplementary Material for “Political Opinion Formation as Epistemic Practice. The Hashtag Assemblage of #metwo”
Get PDFAppendix 1. German newspaper articles reporting on the hashtag #metwo.
Appendix 2. Relative share of references (retweets, replies, quotes, mentions) between communities, rounded. References are column-directed and relative to the total number of references per community.
Appendix 3. Share of topics within communities in percent, rounded
Digidem Digest - Issue 8 (November 2018)
No full textThe Digidem Digest literature radar was a monthly curated overview of the latest publications with relevance to the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" at the Weizenbaum Institute. Their research focused around the interrelation of digitalization and democratic self-determination, asking how liberal-democratic societies appropriate digital technologies and how democracy is changing within the digital configuration. The present articles and publications were chosen by observation of leading journals within the field - a list can be found at the end of each newsletter