"... In PAGE 19: ... In doing so, we hoped to discover whether someone who had read this major and timely discussion of scholarly electronic publishing could have anticipated the powerful and surprising stance the scientific societies would later take against E-Biomed. During the period that we analyzed, approximately 350 messages on the American Scientist forum (see Table3 ). discussed several dozen topics, including the relative costs of paper and e-media, the value and limitations of peer review, citations to e-journals, economic models where the author pays, and so on.... ..."

"... In PAGE 6: ...imilarly, 58.6 percent of the respondents, with a mean 1.41 and standard deviation of 0.501, perceived flexibility as influential factor as shown is Table4 . Learners perceived ... ..."

"... In PAGE 9: ...3 Preference of learning in the online discussion forum for OUMH1103 Assignment When asked if they would prefer online discussion forums than to face-to-face sessions, only 30 percent indicated their preference and the majority of the respondents (40 percent) were unsure of their preferences as shown in Table 7. All the five factors, peer interaction, tutor support, online assignment task, technology support and knowledge acquired fail to show any significant relationship with the learner preference for learning as depicted in Table8 . Learner readiness for online learning could be the issue here.... ..."

"... In PAGE 9: ...9 6.3 Preference of learning in the online discussion forum for OUMH1103 Assignment When asked if they would prefer online discussion forums than to face-to-face sessions, only 30 percent indicated their preference and the majority of the respondents (40 percent) were unsure of their preferences as shown in Table7 . All the five factors, peer interaction, tutor support, online assignment task, technology support and knowledge acquired fail to show any significant relationship with the learner preference for learning as depicted in Table 8.... In PAGE 9: ...s depicted in Table 8. Learner readiness for online learning could be the issue here. In addition, reasons given by the learners in Table 6 could also explain for low percentage of respondents who preferred online learning than face-to-face learning. As predicted, majority of the respondents agreed that they will save more time by discussing in the online than face-to-face sessions ( Table7 ). Even though all the respondents agreed that online discussion forum is important with a mean of 1.... ..."

"... In PAGE 5: ...9%) are much higher. Table4 . Percentage of Members Who Have Created New Threads Number of threads members created FID Type 0 1 2-9 10-29 30-49 50-99 gt;=100 1 Pirated CDs 99.... ..."

"... In PAGE 13: ...strated by the frequency of posts, particularly response rates. Table3 , which summarizes the activity of the threads on the main page from its inception to November 1, 2002, demonstrates that the discussion forums are used primar- ily to post announcements. Thus, the first topic listed, Education Reform, contained a total of 70 messages across 25 distinct threads.... In PAGE 14: ...Table3 , suggest that most visitors are seeking bene- fits other than solidary ones, perhaps visiting the news sites, reading existing posts, or collecting information available on the posted projects. CGOS AND GOS: SIMILARLITIES AND DISTINCTIONS SIMILARITIES WITH GOS AfghanistanOnline and Rebuild-Afghanistan meet most of the criteria the literature suggests for identifying GOs.... ..."

"... In PAGE 2: ... 2000). There are two features for fulfilment of the communicative function: community of local interest and informatory content ( Table2 ). The marketplace provides means for digital discussion forums to build an online community (Preece 2000).... ..."

"... In PAGE 2: ... These Internet-based CMC tools are used by extremists for diverse forms of communication. Table1 shows a comparison of different CMC tools on the Internet. Among these CMC tools, emails and instant messengers support private, one- to-one communication; while online forums and chat rooms support public, many-to-many group communication.... ..."