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Now showing items 421-440 of 2001
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Transformed By Community Economic Development--Southwest Montréal Now Has A Future As Well As A Past
(Making Waves, 2004)It's taken well on 20 years, but the decline of Montreal's old southwest quarter has been halted. A community-driven strategy, unprecedented in Canada for its scale and comprehensiveness, has turned five rundown neighbourhoods ... -
Public Institution or Public Nuisance? HRSDC, the community sector's increasingly dysfunctional "partner"
(Making Waves, 2004)Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) went off the deep end in the years following the so-called "Billion Dollar Boondoggle" back in 2000-01. In response to perceived public pressure, the Ministry introduced ... -
The Good News from Manitoba: How one provincial government has evolved into a leader in CED policy & programming
(Making Waves, 2004)Garry Loewen explains how Manitoba has evolved into a leader in CED policy and programming. The party in power is one key factor. Another has been the growth over the years of a local "CED community" from which that ... -
CED & the Social Economy
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Venture Capital for Social Enterprise: SCP's Approach to the Social Capital Market
(Making Waves, 2004)Like any venture capital organization, Social Capital Partners of Toronto has to separate "exciting ideas" from "worthwhile investments." But that's where the similarity ends. SCP is looking for partners with the will and ... -
Web-Based Training
(John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2004)Current Web-based training (WBT) is based upon systematic research and experience with strategies for improving learning and instruction, beginning in the early part of the 20th century and continuing to the present. Use ... -
Media Characteristics and Online Learning Technology
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Use of the Bales model for analysis of small group communications in the analysis of interaction in computer-based asynchronous conferences
(International Assocation of Science and Technology for Development, 2004)Examination of online, text-based interaction in computer conferences (CMC), for patterns and processes first detected in the early 1950s in face-to-face groups, showed some similarities, and several differences. ... -
Students with Disabilities in Distance Education: Characteristics, Course Enrollment and Completion, and Support Services
(Journal of Distance Education, 2004)This study describes the characteristics, enrollment, and completion rates of students with disabilities and the support services they received over a three-year period. Between 1998 and 2001 a total of 604 students with ... -
Edusource: Canada's Learning Object Repository Network
(International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2004)An alliance of Canadian Universities and government agencies pooled their resources to establish a network to share and combine Learning Objects from a variety of sources and further develop this technology. In the process, ... -
A Second Look at Learning Sciences, Classrooms and Technology
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Practice guided by research in providing effective student support services
(Oldenburg: Bibliotheks-und Informationassystem der Universaitat Oldenburg, 2004) -
Validity Issues In Quantitative Computer Conference Transcript Analysis
(Educational Technology Research and Development, 2004)Over the past 15 years, educational technologists have been dabbling with a research technique known as quantitative content analysis (QCA). Although it is characterized as a systematic and objective procedure for describing ... -
Student Services In A Networked World
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Teaching In An Online Learning Context
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Interaction For Lifelong Learning
(British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004)Abstract The term ‘lifelong’, as applied to education or learning, has been in circulation for more than a quarter of a century. It has played an important role in policy discussions, as well as in studies of the sociology ... -
The relationship between commitment and exercise behavior
(Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2004)Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between commitment and exercise behavior using the Sport Commitment Model (SCM; J Sport & Exercise Psychology, 15, 1) as a guiding conceptual ... -
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 ... -
Reducing relocation stress syndrome in long term care facilities
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What works? A personal account of clinical teaching strategies in nursing
(Education for Health, 2004)