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Westlock Grain Terminals : A Case Study
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on a case study of Westlock Grain Terminals, a new generation co-operative in Alberta, Canada. -
Wēijī : East Asian Mothering
(2012-04-04)This conference presentation will highlight the conference theme of exploring motherhood and mothering in a global context. Wēijī represents the Chinese symbol for “crisis” and “opportunity” whereby reversing the characters ... -
What a librarian can bring to your open online course development team.
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What a librarian can do for your open online course
(2013-03-05)Information literacy tools used in face-to-face, blended, or online course environments are not scalable to massive open online courses, or MOOCs. We need a different approach based on the unique skills librarians bring ... -
What are MOOCs doing to the Open Education?
(2013-11-05)Higher education is now entering its second year of MOOC hype. The stream of almost daily pronouncements of additional universities joining existing MOOC providers, new funding, new MOOC offerings, and new reports continues ... -
What Does Formal Online Debating Bring to Graduate Education?
(2010-07-14)Debating is a formal process of argument that has a long tradition of application in education. Educators value it as a strategy for promoting the development of skills associated with influencing others using logic, facts, ... -
What is the social economy? Contested ground or alternative lenses?
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2010-09-30)This power point presentation explores the emergence of the social economy as a field of study and examines several approaches to defining and conceptualizing the social economy. It suggests that each approach has utility ... -
What is the value of replicating other studies?
(Evaluation Research, 2004)In response to a question on the value of replication in social science research, the author undertook a search of the literature for expert advise on the value of such an activity. Using the information gleaned and ... -
What might cause a benevolent government to be corrupt when agents are honest? An Insight with triadic relationships
(2010-08-11)Note: In order to make my points clear, I am providing an executive summary rather than an abstract. Executive Summary The extant literature that seeks to explain corruption in government bureaucracies usually refers ... -
What Value Social Enterprise? Understanding the success of Atira Property Management
(Making Waves, 2005)A charity that manages transition houses in B.C.'s lower mainland is in the curious position of both making and breaking the case for social enterprise. Atira Women's Resource Society has found itself well-positioned to ... -
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ... -
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ... -
What works? A personal account of clinical teaching strategies in nursing
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When a Guilty Verdict is in the Accused’s Best Interests
(2010-06-22)Lawyers’ ethical codes direct defence counsel to protect clients from criminal conviction. If acquittal isn’t possible, the minimal sentence should be secured. This paper argues that in specific case types neither an ... -
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 ... -
When Retailers are More Powerful
(2010-06-23)The long-term effects of promotions on sales are increasingly linked to the supposed shift of economic power within channels from manufacturers to retailers. However, formal knowledge about how they influence channel ... -
When the Worst Imaginable Becomes Reality: The Experience of Child Custody Loss in Mothers Recovering from Addictions
(Janus Head http://www.janushead.org/, 2013)This article describes findings from a qualitative study that investigated the lived experiences of four mothers recovering from crack cocaine addictions who lost custody of their children. The project was guided by feminist ... -
Where is the “m” in Skills for Life?
(2007-10-09)There are changes afoot in the world of Skills for Life. The post-Moser “golden era” in which the teaching of literacy and numeracy moved from the shadows into the spotlight may be about to shift focus. Is there still a ... -
Who matters? Public history and the invention of the Canadian past
(Acadiensis, 2000)There is no longer any real dispute that the past, as distinct from traditions, is an invention based on a careful selection of apparently empirical evidence. Historians now accept that there is no "ultimate" truth; there ... -
Who Should you write for? - Competing Literary Systems in Colonial Papua and New Guinea
(2013-03-07)Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ...