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Diversity, identity and belonging in e-learning communities: some theories and paradoxes Teaching in Higher Education
It is often assumed that online collaborative learning is inclusive of diversity. In this exploratory paper I challenge this notion by developing a theory which proposes that inclusion occurs through congruence between learners’ social identities and the identities implicitly supported through the interactions in a particular community. To build identity congruence, e-learning communities need spaces for both commonality and diversity and I present three paradoxes which underlie the aims of online learners and teachers to embrace diversity online. I illustrate these with some examples from online learning and teaching. The ability to ‘listen’ to each other online offers a way forward and the paper ends with some future possibilities about how we can ensure that e-learning communities benefit from diversity
Spectra of lens spaces from 1-norm spectra of congruence lattices
To every -dimensional lens space , we associate a congruence lattice
in , with and we prove a formula relating
the multiplicities of Hodge-Laplace eigenvalues on with the number of
lattice elements of a given -length in . As a
consequence, we show that two lens spaces are isospectral on functions (resp.\
isospectral on -forms for every ) if and only if the associated
congruence lattices are -isospectral (resp.\
-isospectral plus a geometric condition). Using this fact, we
give, for every dimension , infinitely many examples of Riemannian
manifolds that are isospectral on every level and are not strongly
isospectral.Comment: Accepted for publication in IMR
Dimension formulas for Siegel modular forms of level
We prove several dimension formulas for spaces of scalar-valued Siegel
modular forms of degree with respect to certain congruence subgroups of
level . In case of cusp forms, all modular forms considered originate from
cuspidal automorphic representations of whose
local component at admits non-zero fixed vectors under the principal
congruence subgroup of level . Using known dimension formulas combined with
dimensions of spaces of fixed vectors in local representations at , we
obtain formulas for the number of relevant automorphic representations. These
in turn lead to new dimension formulas, in particular for Siegel modular forms
with respect to the Klingen congruence subgroup of level .Comment: 48 pages. Fixed some typographical errors and improved exposition.
Final version which has been published in Mathematik
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