What is Participation

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Practice that engages multiple voices in information-sharing and decision-making. Learn more in: Technology Leverages a Community University Collaboration

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A process in which two or more parties influence each other in the making of decisions. In the decision-making each individual member has equal power to determine the outcome of decisions. Learn more in: Future Living in a Participatory Way

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A process in which children and youth get involve in social and political processes and institutions. Through participation is recognized the capacity and value that children and youth have to contribute to society, as well as is develop their potential. Learn more in: Reparations for Children and Youth: A Peacebuilding Mechanism

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In online discussions, the act of contributing to the forum through an explicit comment or through engaging by reading others’ posts. Learn more in: Using “Plain Vanilla” Online Discussions to Foster Students' Learning: From Research to Practice

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An institution's internal and external target groups take an active role in the institutional decision-making process. Learn more in: Transmedia Storytelling as a Corporate Communication Strategy and Its Effect on Corporate Culture

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Students or lecturer indicate their presence on the discussion board by posting either social or course-related messages. Learn more in: Networking Learners Using Online Asynchronous Discussions

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Becoming engaged with others and generating the situations to be discussed. Learn more in: Knowledge Building Online: The Promise and the Process

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This is a measure to evaluate the response of users (or players) to the system in question. By analyzing the intensity and the commitment of participants, a hint on the goodness of the system’s design can be grasped. Learn more in: Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: The Key Role of Gamified Motivational Systems for Citizens' Engagement and Behavior Change

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Taking active part in political life. Learn more in: Planners Support of E-Participation in the Field of Urban Planning

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Playing an active role in shaping one’s own urban environment. Learn more in: From the Smart City to the People-Friendly City: Usability of Tools and Data in Urban Planning

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Allowing employees to develop new processes and take decisions in the running of a company. Learn more in: An Exercise in Liberation

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Participation includes customer behaviors that indicate an active and responsible involvement in the strategic direction and development of a business and/or organization. Comapnies can participate actively with the universities, given that they are in a good position to supply relevant information. Learn more in: Relationships Between Universities and Enterprises: The Perspective of Small and Medium-Sized Firms

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active taking part in educational sessions. Learn more in: Personalisation of 3D Virtual Spaces for Enhanced Ubiquitous Learning

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The ideal goal with participation is that lessons learned would inform the behaviour and desire of members to become involved in their communities and democracy at all levels, from local to national Learn more in: Facilitating Active Citizenship in Students through the Strengthening of University-Community Partnerships

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Attendance or active involvement. Learn more in: Wellness Programs in Higher Education: An Australian Case

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The involvement of people, especially the marginalized, in their own development process. Learn more in: Advocacy as a Strategy for Sustainable Development and Economic Growth: What Civil Society Organizations Need to Know

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Choosing to engage and to be included in an experience, an event, or a social encounter. Within this discussion, it is the choice to engage in an instructional experience that is meant to be motivational in nature, or may be a cognitive experience wherein the learner engages in an instructionally appropriate event towards achieving a learning objective. Learn more in: Social Learning Through a Participative Storytelling Framework: Rethinking the Essence of Course Engagement

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Action developed by users when they use technologies to content creation or sharing. Learn more in: Profiling Internet Use of Portuguese Higher Education Students

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The level of activity in a learning network that can be either passive (consuming information) or active (contributing information). Learn more in: Design Guidelines for Collaboration and Participation with Examples from the LN4LD (Learning Network for Learning Design)

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opportunity to actively take part in the public policymaking processes Learn more in: Challenges of Developing Open Policymaking in the Western Balkans

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(Freedom to) take part in all aspects of education, being actively involved. Learn more in: Transformation and Social Justice in South African Higher Education: An Unequal Turf

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involvement of beneficiaries in all stages and at all levels of project planning for ’development’ Learn more in: Shifting Focus from Access to Impact: Can Computers Alleviate Poverty?

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Process and product of population’s engagement in the production of responses and the effectuation of rights and duties. Learn more in: Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation

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As citizens, we have the right and the obligation to be active members of society. When it comes to digital media, there are several tools that people can use to raise awareness about something or to get involved in relevant decision discussions to their communities. Learn more in: How to Use Parody and Humour to Teach Digital Literacy

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Involvement of a person in an activity either with others or in an experience designed by others. Learn more in: Designing Games to Motivate Student Cohorts through Targeted Game Genre Selection

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Use of social media for social interaction and community development. Learn more in: Understanding the Effect of Social Media Use on Psychological Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity. Learn more in: Participatory and Appreciative Adult Learning and Reflection in Virtual Environments: Towards the Development of an Appreciative Stewardship

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Refers to the processes of citizen involvement in public service delivery. Learn more in: The Digitalization Process of the Public Sector in Turkey: An Evaluation Through the Digital Transformation Office

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Being involved in debating public policies and determining national resource expenditures. Learn more in: Youth Participation in Politics: The Case of Zambian University Students

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The action of taking part. Learn more in: Maintaining Safety Nets and Peace for Children and Youth at Risk

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As one measure of contact, the gradual weight of public as well as institutional participation is of further interest to us. Participation is the main quantitative parameter within come_IN. Commonly shared practice within the club has to pay tribute to all different kinds of participation and learning scenarios (e.g. working with, playing on, and respectively gazing at ICT). Using theoretical sampling helps to clarify the dependence between manner of use and participation. Learn more in: Fostering Communities in Urban Multi-Cultural Neighbourhoods: Some Methodological Reflections

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In virtual world CALL research, participation is a broader notion than interaction and can be understood as learner target language use and intentional and contextualised nonverbal activity in support of learning. Learn more in: The Case for Qualitative Research Into Language Learning in Virtual Worlds

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The record of students’ attitudes and engagement such as answering questions and completing given tasks during the classes in Calculus I module. Learn more in: Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Academic Outcome in Mathematics: Using Teacher-Learners Partnership's Repetitive Attempts Online Homework Approach

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Process in which influence is exercised and shared among stakeholders, regardless of their formal position or hierarchical level in the organization. Learn more in: Trends in Information Technology Governance

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A social process whereby specific groups with shared needs living in a defined geographic area actively pursue identification of their needs, take decisions and establish mechanisms to meet these needs (Chamala, 1995 AU77: The in-text citation "Chamala, 1995" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Contingency Factors Impacting the Rural Information and Communication Technology Hubs

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The final phase in Somali refugee experience in the U.S. when members of the Somali community are active in all aspects of host community (politics, economy, social and health services, and culture/arts), while maintaining extralocal connections with home and other diaspora communities and negotiating identity by choosing which elements of host and homeland culture to maintain. Learn more in: New Voices and Narrative Participatory Photography: A Culturally Relevant Method for Intercultural Exchange

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In education and/or learning is focused on why someone chooses to participate versus not participate in formal, informal, and/or nonformal environments as well as on the barriers. Theories have emerged from this term and discussions continue developing. Learn more in: K. Patricia Cross's Chain-of-Response (COR) Model for Widening Participation at Higher Levels of Lifelong Learning in a World of Massification: Past, Present, and Future

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Involvement or engagements that motivate or encourage people to work together in ensuring opportunities, increase the standard of living and stimulating economic growth within the respective setting. Learn more in: Does Lower Income Affect the Development of One's Innovative Ability in the Education Niche

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The social process of taking part in the world through doing in social and historical contexts resulting in learning or a changing relationship of participation in the world. Learn more in: Children's Literature as Pedagogy: Learning Literacy Through Identity in Meaningful Communities of Practice

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A process where participants become actively involved, e.g. in an action research project where researchers and co-researchers collaborate in order to understand a problematic situation and change it for the better. Learn more in: Knowledge Building and Learning in the Public Sector Through Co-Creation and ‘Withness-Thinking'

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The practice of actively taking part in something. Learn more in: A Cross Reading of Landscape through Digital Landscape Models: The Case of Southern Garda

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Becoming engaged with others and generating the situations to be discussed. Learn more in: Gender and Collaborative Knowledge Building in an Online Community of Inquiry

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The most basic requirement of collaboration; it may be measured by the number of postings made and read or by the number of statements contributed to a discussion. Learn more in: Measuring Collaboration in Online Communication

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Describes a user’s level of engagement in a specific platform. This notion is borrowed from contemporary art theory, analyzing recent transformations in the role of the audience, from simple viewer to co-producer or participant ( Bishop, 2012 ). Learn more in: Creative Collaborative Virtual Environments