{"633076":{"#nid":"633076","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Julia Melkers Publishes Article on Participation in the \u0022Virtual Classroom\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulia Melkers, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, has published the article \u0026quot;Lurking and participation in the virtual classroom: The effects of gender, race, and age among graduate students in computer science,\u0026quot; in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EComputers and Education.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article explores patterns of participation in online academic programs, using the forum website Piazza as a setting for study. The results of the study showed that older participants are more active in discussions and that as class size grows, active participation goes down and \u0026quot;lurking behavior\u0026quot; increases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0360131520300543\u0022\u003EThe article can be found here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulia Melkers, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, has published the article \u0026quot;Lurking and participation in the virtual classroom: The effects of gender, race, and age among graduate students in computer science,\u0026quot; in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EComputers and Education.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Julia Melkers, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, has published the article \u0022Lurking and participation in the virtual classroom: The effects of gender, race, and age among graduate students in computer science.\u0022"}],"uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-02-27 19:30:45","changed_gmt":"2020-02-27 19:30:45","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"478231":{"id":"478231","type":"image","title":"Julia Melkers","body":null,"created":"1450285200","gmt_created":"2015-12-16 17:00:00","changed":"1475895230","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:50","alt":"Julia Melkers","file":{"fid":"204127","name":"juliemelkersweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/juliemelkersweb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/juliemelkersweb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53244,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/juliemelkersweb_0.jpg?itok=T9BhHPgW"}}},"media_ids":["478231"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8681","name":"Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}