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Maternal Accounts of the Costs and Benefits of Life Experiences After Parental Separation
(Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2000)Recent analyses both question the assumption that parental separation only has negative effects on families and suggest that attention should be paid to the diversity of experiences post divorce. The latter may be ... -
Matroreform: Evolving to a “New” Motherhood”
(2014-01-16)“New” motherhood is initiated through everyday maternal practices and evolves motherhood at its most fundamental level. In a process called matroreform, women unwittingly and/or intentionally choose what they do and do not ... -
Maximizing Library Online Presence while Minimizing Maintenance
(2011-06-29)This paper presents challenges and opportunities for academic libraries to increase their online presence in learning management systems (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University Library will highlight the ... -
Maximizing library presence while minimizing online maintenance
(2011-04-08)This paper presents challenges and opportunities for an academic library to increasing its presence in an online learning management system (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University ... -
May 25, 2007 Meteor
(Please contact Martin Connors for more information: martinc@athabascau.ca, 2007-05-31)The file shows a view of the whole sky on Friday May 25 at 1:07:20 am with data from 1:07:24 superposed. This shows the meteor track in the southern sky, inside the box near the bottom along with the start point just ... -
McGreal, R. (2017). Special Report on the Role of Open Educational Resources in Supporting the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education Challenges and Opportunities
(IRRODL, 2017)Open Educational Resources (OER) and their offspring, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), are becoming important factors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (SDG4). This was recognised early ... -
Measuring the Size, Scope & Scale of the Social Enterprise Sector in Manitoba
(2016-06-15)This project surveyed social enterprises in Manitoba during the spring and summer of 2011 to develop clear indicators of their size, market activities, and socio‐economic contributions. In this study, a social enterprise ... -
Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education
(IRRODL, 2013)The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER). The use and creation of OER are important aspects ... -
Media Characteristics and Online Learning Technology
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The mediating role of self-efficacy on personal coping style in cardiac rehabilitation
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Mediating Student-Academic Interaction Through Contact Centres in Distance Education
(2010-11-17)This study investigates the pedagogical issues that arise from mediating student-academic interaction through a contact centre within university distance education. It is not easy for educational organizations to design ... -
Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law
(2009-08-12)Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law: A co-authored 2003 article, "Delegation as a Source of Law", recognized the traditional sources of law to be legislation and precedent. It went further to analyze the decisions ... -
Medical research: a bettor's guide
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The Medicine Line and the Thin Red Line
(Montana, the Magazine of Western History, 1996)The Medicine Line, the name given by the Blackfoot to the Canadian-American border, reflects the "magic" that it imposes on certain people. How can similar peoples sharing the same continent be so different when divided ... -
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
(Athabasca University Press, 2018)Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s ... -
Memorandum of Understanding for BALTA Partners
(2014-02-05)The BALTA research partnership has functioned since 2006. A new partnership research project, Social Economy Intermediaries and the Transition to Sustainability: Scaling Innovation, represents a new research scope and ... -
Mendicant vs Aristocratic Pedagogy in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
(2011-06-29)“The Summoner’s Tale” (1390s) in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales satirizes the hypocrisy of mendicant friars. Previous criticism has either focused on the portrait of the hypocritical character of Friar John in ... -
Mentoring non-traditional students in clinical practicums: Building on strengths
(Sciedu Press, 2018-03)Background: As nurse educators respond to increasing numbers of adult learners attending practicum experiences, clinical instructors are one of our richest resources. And yet, the everyday strategies they implement to ... -
Mentoring online graduate students: Partners in scholarship
(Education for Primary Care, 2006)Mentoring graduate students toward scholarly research and writing activities has become an important area of focus for faculty at the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. ... -
Merchants, Mining, and Concessions on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1893-1912 Penultimate versions before editing
(Journal of Latin American Studies, 2002)