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Now showing items 1541-1560 of 2001
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Bibliography of the Athabasca River Basin (BARB) Poster Presentation
(2011-04-27)An online, searchable bibliography of published materials relating to the Athabasca River Basin. BARB is intended to be a comprehensive resource for all researchers examining the Athabasca River Basin. A multidisciplinary ... -
(Re)-conceptualizing design approaches for mobile language learning
(CALICO Journal, 2011-05)An exploratory study conducted at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada between 2007 and 2009 investigated language learning with mobile devices as an approach to augmenting ESP learning by taking learning outside the ... -
Creating a Social Support Environment
(2011-05-03)Join a team of 1,600 IT service and technical support MVPs as they face off against today’s most pressing service and support challenges. Only HDI’s IT service and technical support conference, with its expansive resources, ... -
EDPS 672 Issues in Postsecondary Education
(2011-05-03)This course examines the challenges and opportunities posed by the complex environments in which postsecondary institutions operate. Various theoretical lenses will be used to study such aspects of colleges and universities ... -
Barriers to Education: Access to Funding for Students with Disabilities
(2011-05-03)Three main barriers to post-secondary education for students with disabilities: physical accessibility, financial issues, and stereotypical attitudes have been identified in the literature (Canadian Council on Learning, ... -
Silent Historiographers: Memories of Struggle, Scripts of Resistance
(2011-05-03)The main objective of this paper is to draw attention to the possibilities in testimonials to strengthen the decolonizing vein in postcolonial culture critique. With elements of oral history, autobiography, life story, ... -
Embodied and Embedded Intelligence: Actor Agents on Virtual Stages
(2011-05-03)In this presentation, we will argue that Actor Agents, a type of Animated Pedagogical Agent with embodied conversational intelligence, are well positioned to act in virtual environments with embedded intelligence and that, ... -
Workers Against Austerity – Lessons from Canada’s ‘Days of Action,’ 1995-1998
(2011-05-03)Workers versus Austerity: Lessons from Canada's Days of Action, 1995-1998 The Great Recession has left in its wake an expected "age of austerity" where the deficits accumulated to stave off economic collapse, are being ... -
Cloud Computing-based IT Solutions For Organizations with Multiregional Branch Offices
(2011-05-05)One of the most significant phenomena of the new century is globalization. As business goes global, multiregional branch offices are needed and networked computing and information services must then be established for those ... -
The New Old Lawyer: How Lawyers have Adapted to Mediation to Preserve their Power, Income, and Identity
(2011-05-08)This paper outlines the evolution of mediation in some common law jurisdictions from an idea most lawyers dismissed to a practice most now use. It highlights the attitudes and actions of lawyers as they have adjusted their ... -
Creating a Social Economy Community of Practice: The BALTA Experience
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2011-05-11)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is a community-university research partnership that was established in 2006 to undertake research to better understand and strengthen the social economy in Alberta ... -
Experience with support services of graduate students with disabilities studying at a distance: A Case study
(2011-05-11)This study examines the characteristics of graduate students with disabilities studying at a distance and their experience with formal disability-specific support services. Fourteen respondents completed an online survey ... -
The Isolation Of Online Adjunct Faculty And Its Impact On Their Performance
(2011-05-11)Using a grounded-theory, qualitative research approach, this thesis examines the experiences of 28 adjunct faculty members at Beckwith University, exploring their views on whether periodically meeting face to face with ... -
Acquistion Of Soft Skills And Affective Outcomes In Online Distance Education: A Secondary School Study
(2011-05-11)Canada is facing a shortage of workers skilled in affective outcomes, specifically soft skills. Some fingers are pointing to the primary and secondary institutions for failing to aptly prepare future employees with those ... -
The Relationship Between Learning Style And Student Success In A Distance Education Program
(2011-05-11)Learning styles theory has contributed to educational research in that the various measurements of learning style provide a framework on which to create learning models that may contribute to student success for the largest ... -
The effect of a pre-course orientation handbook on student persistence in undergraduate online courses
(2011-05-11)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not orientation for new online students presented in a pre-course handbook would impact student persistence. In this sequential mixed-methods quasi-experimental study ... -
Factors Affecting Implementation of Educational Media Casting As an Instructional Resource in Distance Education
(2011-05-11)This study examined the factors affecting the implementation of podcasting within a post secondary educational institution. The institution in the present investigation is a member of iTunes University and has provided ... -
Student-Student Interaction In An Online Continuing Professional Development Course: Testing Anderson's Equivalency Theorem
(2011-05-11)Continuing education programs for laboratory professionals benefit from the creation of a community of inquiry which encourages students to think critically and learn deeply. Student-student interactions are an essential ... -
When Online Student Discussions Become Cheating: Perceptions of Academic Integrity
(2011-05-11)The primary objective of this study was to investigate the varying perspectives of academic integrity in relation to online learning and the use of Web 2.0 technologies. The study design was an explanatory mixed methods ... -
The experience of Gulf Arab students new to e-learning
(2011-05-11)Technology-based initiatives are being implemented around the world as a means of improving quality and expanding access to education. With this implementation, however, it has become apparent that, to be successful in a ...