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Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-04-16)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-05-22)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
‘Derrida’s “Economimesis’ and Laruelle’s Onto-Photo-Logical Critique of Photography Theory
(2012-11-15)In a key passage in his Copy, Archive, Signature, Derrida reflects on the hinge between the active and passive senses of the rhetorical trope of invention as it bears on the photographic act: “There is a concept of photography ... -
Design and support strategies for learning in virtual communities of practice.
(2002-01-01)To face the challenges of their profession, individuals need to learn quickly to meet new issues, to develop new knowledge in their organizations and to share the knowledge with others in their community. Increasingly, ... -
Design Patterns for Complex Learning
(Journal of Learning Design, 2006)A complex view of learning recognises that learning cannot be pre-determined by teaching, but is as much defined by circumstances and context as pre-defined learning objectives. Learning designs that accept uncertainty ... -
Design-based Research and its Application to a Call Centre Innovation in Distance Education
(Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2005)Design-based research is proposed as a strategy to address the need for innovation in educational contexts. The article argues the case for increased and more effective research and development in education, and then ... -
Design-Based Research: A Decade of Progress in Education Research?
(Educational Researcher, 2012-06)Design-based research (DBR) evolved near the beginning of 21st century and was heralded as a practical research methodology that could effectively bridge the chasm between research and practice in formal education. In this ... -
Designer - Supporting Teachers Experience in Learning Management Systems
(2012-11-15)In the lifelong learning context, the efficiency of learning is measured according to the users’ achievement of the target competences. However, in a virtual learning environment supporting the competence development process ... -
Designing a mobile device automatic detector to support mobile library systems
(Facet, 2010)Content providers cannot ensure that digital material will be reformatted and accessed by any mobile device correctly due to mobile device limitations. A mobile device automatic detector can provide accurate information ... -
Designing a Multiagent System for Course-Offering Determination
(2014-01-16)This paper describes the design of a multiagent system that facilitates course-offering decision making for a program in an institution. We first model course offering determination for upcoming semester as a multi-winner ... -
Designing for disruption: Remodelling a blended course in technology in (language) teacher education
(Australasian Society of Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2006)This study employs a case study model to documenting the evolution over three semesters of a Masters course in technology and language learning for in-service teachers using a social constructivist pedagogical approach ... -
Designing Mobile Learning Interventions for Language Learners
(2013-09-12)This chapter presents a case of an EDR study completed at a Canadian community college and resulting in the development of an innovative educational intervention, Mobile–Enabled Language Learning Eco-System (MELLES), as ... -
Designing the Undesignable: Social Software and Control
(2008-02-28)In this presentation, Dr. Jon Dron will discuss his recently published article, “Designing the undesignable: Social Software and Control”. In this article, Dr Dron states that social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging ... -
The Determinants of the Corporate Hedging Decision: An Empirical Analysis
(2009-11-26)This paper is concerned with testing the hypotheses put forth by Smith and Stulz (1985) and Nance, Smith and Smithson (1993) regarding the four reasons for which a firm will hedge. In this paper, we extend the analysis ... -
Determinates of Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Effects of Organizational Culture
(2009-10-01)Buyer-supplier relationship has been gaining increasing attention in the last few decades. A skilled and loyal supplier base has proved to be a key source of competitive advantage. Despite such attention, most of the ... -
Developing a collaborative community: Guidelines for establishing a computer-mediated language learning project with a developing country.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Proficiency in a second language and intercultural awareness are seen as important personal and professional assets as we take an increasingly global perspective. In Australia, Indonesian is one of the priority languages, ... -
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Training Programs Provided by WHO: The Feasibility of Incorporating Social Justice, Cultural Competency, Social Justice and Investment
(2010-06-22)The paper describes a study that examined training programs at WHO. The feasibility of incorporating indicators of return on investment, social justice and cultural competency was explored. Every year increasing amounts ... -
Developing a student model for distance education.
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Developing and implementing a continuing competence program for professional psychologists: A Canadian perspective
(2011-08-25)Discusses the development of a continuing competence program for professional psychologists. Many North American jurisdictions have mandatory continuing education that involves collecting continuing education hours in a ... -
Development and performance of the 2nd generation micro-magnetometer originally developed by Dr. Martin Connors
(2010-06-23)I will be presenting a poster detailing development and performance of the second generation micro-magnetometer originally developed by Dr. Martin Connors at Athabasca University. This magnetometer, newly re-engineered ...