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Now showing items 121-140 of 2001
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The Cape Breton Laborers Development Company: A Case Report
(Centre for Community Enterprise, 1994)The main activity of this trade union owned non-profit company is to finance and construct affordable housing. An inspired example of social and economic solidarity at work: the resulting model became recognized well beyond ... -
Blood cholesterol and coronary heart disease: changing perspectives
(Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1994)There has been much controversy concerning the value of efforts to reduce blood cholesterol levels. In this contribution, the risks and benefits of interventions are discussed. Lowering cholesterol level by drugs is ... -
Critical thinking in distance education: Developing critical communities in an audio teleconference context
(Higher Education, 1995)Distance education has long been associated with independent study and delivery of prepackaged learning materials. These characteristics effectively deny distance education students the opportunity to participate in ... -
(1995). The Sexually Specific Subject, Regimes of Truth, and the Construction of the Leader and of Leadership
(1995)Paper presented at the Annual meeting of The Learned Societies, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Lacanian Indirection in Social Theory: Art, Ethics and Radical Democracy. Montreal, Canada. 1995. -
A heterogeneous distributed database system for distance education networks
(American Journal of Distance Education, 1995)An advanced database system would have the following characteristics: * Universal access by all network users from any computer connected by modem * An extended browse feature that would allow users to navigate ... -
Transactional Issues in Distance Education: The Impact of Design in Audioteleconferencing
(American Journal of Distance Education, 1995)This paper reports the results of a study of student perceptions of learning via audioconferencing in university-level courses delivered at a distance. Field observations, interviews, and a focus group were used to ... -
Continuing Professional Education in a Rural Context: Does Interactive, Distance Education Meet the Need?
(International Journal of Continuing Education Practice, 1995)This paper reports the results of an investigation into the use of interactive distance education to meet the need for continuing professional education. Using a mixed-method research design, the study evaluated students' ... -
Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation: A Community Venture Repatriates Benefits from Local Public Forests
(Making Waves, 1995)Economically prostrate in the mid 1980s, the town of Revelstoke, BC has demonstrated how a small community can regain a say in its economic future. The Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation (RCFC) is a community-owned ... -
The Edmonton Recycling Society: Cutting-Edge Business With A Social Mission
(Making Waves, 1995)The Edmonton Recycling Society shows how economic activities can be environmentally sound, provide meaningful employment to people with disabilities, earn a competitive rate of return, and be seen to be one of the top ... -
Born of Different Visions: Labour Education in Canada and the US
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Assuming the Master's Mantle: The Pedagogue as "Subject Presumed to Know."
(University of Quebec at Montreal, 1995) -
The Imaginary Institution of Adult Education: A Reassessment of the Field's Collective Identity
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Community-Based Recycling put on Hold: Cambridge’s failed bid to replicate the ERS
(Making Waves, 1995)Inspired by the success of the Edmonton Recycling Society,(Guenter, 1995) an innovative CED organization in Southern Ontario mobilized to compete for a major recycling contract in the Waterloo region. However, procurement ... -
Course developers' guidelines
(TeleEducation NB, 1995)This guide has been created to provide World Wide Web course developers with a set of common standards and guidelines for publishing courses on line. Some of the standards make eminent sense to everyone, others have been ... -
Erinnerung, Retrait, Absolute Reflection: Hegel and Derrida
(The Owl of Minerva, 1995)In this essay I show that Jacques Derrida not only mistakenly reads the Hegelian text in terms of reflection, but that his own way of thinking could be characterized from a Hegelian perspective as itself reflective. For ... -
Agriculture in Indonesia: mostly a domestic market
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Vision for Change: a concept paper for the development of a virtual learning system
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A snake, some oilBook review of Silicon Snake Oil by C. Stoll. CMC Magazine
(CMC Magazine, 1995-09-01)Silicon Snake Oil could represent a first attempt to compile a database on every negative aspect that could possibly be attributed to cyberspace. In one long whine, Stoll lists off everything that can and does go wrong ...