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Conversation as Inquiry: A conversation with instructional designers
(Journal of Learning Design, 2006)Instructional designers regularly engage in a process of professional and personal transformation that has the potential to transform the culture of institutions through faculty-client relationships. Instructional ... -
Using Problem-Based Learning in Online Courses: A New Hope?
(M. Bullen & Janes (Eds.). Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues. Idea Group. Hersey, PA., 2006)In this chapter, I argue that instructional designers must use research and theory to guide them to new and justified instructional practices when designing e-learning. I introduce a well-established pedagogy, Problem-Based ... -
Instructional Designers Perceptions of Their Agency: Tales of Change and Community
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Problem Formulation and Resolution in Online Problem-Based Learning
(International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning, 2006)This paper discusses an exploratory study to investigate the existence, and nature, of student problem formulation and resolution processes in an undergraduate online Problem-Based Learning (PBL) course in Agricultural ... -
Peer crowds, work experience, and financial saving behaviour of young Canadians
(Journal of Economic Psychology, 2006)The objective of this study is to examine predictors of young people's saving behaviour. The results from probit analysis, using a national survey of 1806 Canadians aged 12–24, reveal that individuals from peer groups ... -
Learning Community Development Finance: Doing Development in Arkansas
(Making Waves, 2006)This thoughtful book review is a rich and fascinating case study of community development finance. The case study is based on ten years of work by an organization started in 1986, called Southern Development Bancorporation. ... -
Peak Oil, Marginal Communities, and You
(Making Waves, 2006)How expensive energy will change community practice. -
Perceptions on the Ground: Principals’ Perception of Government Interventions in High-Speed Educational Networking
(Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 2006)The Alberta SuperNet was built to bring broadband connectivity to every school, hospital, library and provincial government office in Alberta (a large province in Canada with an area of 255,285 square miles). The supposed ... -
Book Review of "Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Second Edition"
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Factors Affecting the Development and Use of Learning Objects
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006)This study explored barriers and facilitating factors affecting the development and use of learning objects in developing instructional materials and their use in supporting individualized learning. Over a two-month period, ... -
Kauai Fresh: From food bank to a catalyst of food security
(Making Waves, 2006)As its "Kauai Fresh" food brand demonstrates, Kauai Food Bank Ohana is learning how to give its charitable activities an entrepreneurial edge. Dependency is giving way to capacity and partnerships as this organization ... -
Project Management: A Strategic Asset?
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Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers
(Strange Peregrinations, 2006)The most significant development which has taken place among Italian-Canadian writers since 1986 is the great amount of writing and publication. This was not supposed to happen according to most opinions. I recall that for ... -
Implementing learning object metadata for mobile devices using CanCore
(Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, 2006-02-19)Pedagogical and other types of metadata are important in the implementation of learning systems for use by mobile devices. Metadata is key to the use of learning objects. Learning objects represent a means of rendering ... -
Revisiting methodological issues in transcript analysis: Negotiated coding and reliability
(The Internet and Higher Education, 2006-02-28)Transcript analysis is an important methodology to study asynchronous online educational discourse. The purpose of this study is to revisit reliability and validity issues associated with transcript analysis. The goal is ... -
Online Executive MBA Orientation
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Course Syllabus for MBA Orientation (MBAO-100)
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The unique value of online MBA course syllabi
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Transforming Higher Education: Agency and the Instructional Designer
(American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA, 2006-04)In addition to the important role instructional designers play in the design and development of instructional products and programs, they also act in communities of practice as agents in changing the way traditional colleges ...