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A Review of What Instructional Designers Do: Questions Answered and Questions Not Asked
(Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2005)The purpose of this literature review was to determine what evidence there is that instructional designers apply ID Models, as well as to establish what other activities and processes they might use in their professional ... -
Distance learning – Social software’s killer ap?
(the Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia, 2005)This paper discusses the challenges of developing modes of distance education that afford maximum freedom for learners—including the ability to enroll continuously and to pace one’s own learning—and yet still create ... -
Case Study: eduSource and the Athabasca University Digital Library Project
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Dietary intake of pregnant women and their infants in a poor black community in South Africa
(Curationis, 2005)The aimsof thisstudy were (i) to determine the dietary intake of women in a poor rural area during pregnancy and lactation, and (ii) to determine the nutritional status and dietary intake of their infants at age 6 months. ... -
2005 Alberta Survey on Physical Activity: A Concise Report
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The Athabasca University edusource Project: Building An Accessible Learning Object Repository
(Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005)Athabasca University - Canada's Open University (AU) made the commitment to put all of its courses online as part of its Strategic University Plan. In pursuit of this goal, AU participated in the eduSource project, a ... -
Cosmic Ear: Calabrian Writers in Canada
(Australasian Canadian Studies, 2005)"Our House is in a Cosmic Ear" is the title of a poem by Antonino Mazza, a poet and translator who epitomizes Calabrian writers in Canada. Calabrians constitute a very large proportion of the Italians in Canada. There are ... -
Friulani Writers in Canada: Elegy for the Future
(Udine: Forum, 2005)One day we got lost in Pordenone. On a long drive from Udine to Bassano we took a wrong turn and found ourselves in a newly built area of Pordenone. The streets, sidewalks, green lawns and house designs were all a reproduction ... -
Student learning style and asynchronous computer-mediated conferencing.
(American Journal of Distance Education, 2005-01)Abstract: This paper describes a study of the relationship between learning style, as measured by the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, and online communication behavior, as measured by analysis of transcripts of CMC ... -
Standards: it is not just about compliance
(Elearning Reports, 2005-01)On a recent conference tour of the Americas, and before setting off to Australia for CORDRAs and Hawaii for IEEEs PERL workshops, respectively, CanCore’s Norm Friesen and Rory McGreal took a breather to discuss the latest ... -
Two methods for assessing critical thinking in computer-mediated communications (CMC) transcripts.
(International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning., 2005-03)Abstract: Critical thinking, though critical in education, is especially difficult to detect in online learning and teaching based on computer-mediated communication (CMC). As a latent construct, critical thinking must ... -
The mind of a plagiarist
(Taylor & Francis Group LTD, 2005-03)The ease with which material may be "copied and pasted" from the Internet into written work is raising concern in educational institutions, and particularly in those disciplines that use online courses and methods in their ... -
How does coping change with development? A review of childhood and adolescence sport coping research
(European Journal of Sport Sciences, 2005-03)It is important to study how children and adolescents cope with stressors in sport because effective coping enhances sport experiences and prevents psychological and physiological problems that can lead to sport withdrawal. ... -
Place-based Public Policy: Towards a New Urban and Community Agenda for Canada
(Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2005-03)To inform the efforts to address this new policy challenge now under way across Canada, this paper explores experiences in Britain, Europe and the United States. Governments there started earlier than Canada and have ... -
Letters: And where do hermaphrodites fit in?
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Or even worse: Rory`s list of a dozen things that can go wrong in a World Wide Web course
(ELearn Magazine, 2005-04)A list of problems encountered in delivering courses on the World Wide Web -
Planning for multimedia learning.
(Indira Gandhi National Open University., 2005-06)Effective uses of multimedia in open and distance learning (ODL) depend upon various factors, some intrinsic to the media themselves, and others related to the differing pedagogic tasks and organizational environments into ... -
The Athabasca University Digital Reading Room: Library resources for mobile students
(IADIS, 2005-06)This project has been designed to test the boundaries of Mlearning and to begin to build a platform for AU to raise an effective m-library. Building on the research conducted in Canada and abroad, the researchers are ... -
Leisure-Time Physical Activity (LTPA) among Adults in Alberta, 2000–2005
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Factors Influencing the Process of Critical Thinking Among Health Professionals During Computer Conferencing: A Case Study
(2005-06-17)Despite the growing amount of research evidence regarding effective clinical interventions, rehabilitation health professionals face many barriers in applying this new information to practice. Computer conferencing among ...