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Kedra, Joanna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The article presents a study of five Polish multicultural and multilingual families in Finland, and their engagement in digitally mediated family communication. Explored through an ethnographic inquiry into the in-app communication practices of Polish migrant mothers and children, the study contributes to the body of research at the intersection…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Computer Mediated Communication
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Yousaf, Salman; Fan, Xiucheng; Laber, Fahad – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this research is to understand how nation branding initiatives complement education diplomacy for a country such as China and to investigate how country distance shapes perceptions of China across a large international student contingency in China. We use Ghemawat's [(2001). Distance still matters. "Harvard Business…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Foreign Students, Student Recruitment
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Rodríguez-López, Carlos; Salas-Fariña, Zeus M.; Villa-González, Emilio; Borges-Cosic, Milkana; Herrador-Colmenero, Manuel; Medina-Casaubón, Jesús; Ortega, Francisco B.; Chillón, Palma – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Active commuting to school has health implications among young people. We aimed to (a) examine the patterns of commuting to school in children and adolescents regarding gender and area of residence, (b) study the association between distance from home to school and mode of commuting, and (c) identify the threshold distance below which young people…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Transportation, Correlation, Regression (Statistics)
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Baggaley, Jon; Batpurev, Batchuluun – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
Two studies are reported, comparing the browser loading times of webpages created using common Web development techniques. The loading speeds were estimated in 12 Asian countries by members of the "PANdora" network, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to conduct collaborative research in the development of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Time, Surveys, Distance Education
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Yu, Fu-Yun – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
Since past studies showing that competition has negative effects on group process were primarily conducted in traditional classrooms involving face-to-face situations, this study extends past research by investigating whether the negative effects associated with face-to-face team competition can be mitigated with the support of networking…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Proximity, Educational Strategies, Data Analysis