Mohammad Parsa

• University of California, Berkeley

Cooperative education is a form of work-integrated learning that includes both classroom study terms and paid work experience. Prior work has studied the benefits of cooperative education for students, employers, and academic institutions. In contrast, this article studies the impact of co-operative education on students’ mental well-being. This is...

Academic integrity has been a frequently reported challenge in online education. Given the widespread transition to online program delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, we ask the following question: How do college students feel about online cheating? Our analysis is based on academic discussions on the Reddit social curation platform in Fall 2020...

The COVID-19 pandemic created a global crisis with devastating social and economic impacts. Firstly, public health measures for COVID-19, such as social distancing affected how we work and study. Secondly, this crisis caused mobility restrictions and shutdowns that impacted our economy. In this thesis, we aim to obtain a better understanding of how...

The Coronavirus pandemic created a global crisis that prompted immediate large-scale action, including economic shutdowns and mobility restrictions. These actions have had devastating effects on the economy, but some positive effects on the environment. As the world recovers from the pandemic, we ask the following question: What is the public attit...

Climate action is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We contribute to this effort by analyzing climate change topics on the Reddit social curation platform, which contains over 100,000 discussion communities. We leverage the community-oriented structure of Reddit to answer two questions: 1) Which online communities discuss cli...

Migraine literacy among the public is known to be low, and this lack of understanding has a negative impact on migraineurs' quality of life. To understand this impact, we use text mining methods to study migraine discussion on the Reddit social media platform. We summarize the findings in the form of "four things people should know about chronic mi...

Cooperative education is a form of work-integrated learning that includes both classroom study terms and paid work experience. Prior work has studied the benefits of cooperative education for students, employers, and academic institutions. In contrast, this article studies the impact of co-operative education on students’ mental well-being. This is...

The Coronavirus pandemic created a global crisis that prompted immediate large-scale action, including economic shutdowns and mobility restrictions. These actions have had devastating effects on the economy, but some positive effects on the environment. As the world recovers from the pandemic, we ask the following question: What is the public attit...