This article represents an attempt to more fully understand the interactions of individuals in a
specific community of practice on the World Wide Web. It attempts to answer questions about …

In Creative Technology's programming courses, students are encouraged to create original
and creative solutions to open problems-as supposed to simply finding the correct answer to …

In this paper, the potential relationship between two design processes that are traditionally
regarded as independent: the architectural and the organizational respectively, is being …

This work explores identity development among members of the Atheist Station, a meeting
place for agnostics, secular humanists and atheists in rural, southwest-central Pennsylvania …

This study reports the findings of a qualitative study of competitive West Coast Swing
dancers that incorporated both ethnographic and phenomenological techniques. A modern …

Enduring levels of illiteracy point to a long-term failure to address one of society's more
solvable problems. The conditions giving rise to illiteracy are systemic and complex, but also …

Few new studies plus theoretical stagnation mark the inattention of educators to self-directed
informal learning during career development in technology. Therefore this study explored …

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore docents' perceptions of their
interpretive role in art museums and determine how those perceptions shape docents' …

First-generation college students (students whose parents have not earned at least a
bachelor's degree) graduate at significantly lower rates than their peers, even when …

This study investigated the beliefs, feelings, and behaviors of full-time mathematics faculty at
community colleges in a Midwestern state. The online questionnaire for this study included …