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Now showing items 781-800 of 2000
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Progress on Low-Cost Pulse-Counting Magnetometers for Geomagnetic Studies
(2007-11-28)"what the world needs now is a good $500 magnetometer" -
Using Mobile Learning to Enhance the Quality of Nursing Practice Education
(2007-11-28)In this chapter, we first review the research literature pertaining to the use of mobile devices in nursing education and assess the potential of mobile learning (m-learning) for nursing practice education experiences in ... -
SimProject: A Project Management Simulation for Classroom Instruction
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An Academic’s Life at Athabasca University.
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Oriental gardens: islands of tranquility.
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Time Evolution of the Substorm Current Wedge from Ground and Space-based Magnetic Fields
(2007-12-19)Over the past several years, intensive efforts have resulted in a significant improvement in the ground instrumentation for auroral studies in North America. A major part of this is due to the THEMIS ground program, both ... -
BALTA Bits & Bites - November-December 2007
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2007-12-31)This is the bi-monthly newsletter of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). It contains news about BALTA and social economy developments in Alberta and British Columbia. -
Web-based training
(John Wiley and Sons, 2008)Current Web-based training (WBT) is based upon accumulated 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 ... -
Developing a collaborative community: Guidelines for establishing a computer-mediated language learning project with a developing country.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Proficiency in a second language and intercultural awareness are seen as important personal and professional assets as we take an increasingly global perspective. In Australia, Indonesian is one of the priority languages, ... -
Nature and Culture: A New World Heritage Context
(International Journal of Cultural Property, 2008)The understanding of the relationship between culture and nature as manifested in the UNESCO declarations and practices has changed over the last few years. The World Heritage Convention is continuing to evolve ... -
Good theory: developing a foundation for project management
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(2008) Rethinking Difference, Rethinking Deference
(Recma, the International Review of Social Economy at http://recma.org. This web site offers a free access at 10 years of publication of the Revue internationale de l'économie sociale (paying access for the 2 last years of publication), with english abstracts. Recma.org presents many links towards international organisations and research institutes of social economy., 2008)It’s impossible to understand how to organize cooperatively without focusing on ‘sexual difference’, the French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s category for what has not yet been thought within our ostensibly sexually indifferent ... -
Community Building and Computer-Mediated Conferencing
(Journal of Distance Education, 2008)This study examined the relationship between community cohesion and computer-mediated conferencing (CMC), as well as other variables potentially associated with the development of a learning community. Within the context ... -
Social Economy? Solidarity Economy? Exploring the Implications of Conceptual Nuance for Acting in a Volatile World
(Published as "Social economy and solidarity economy: Transformative concepts for unprecedented times" in Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson and Julie Matthaei (Eds.). Solidarity economy: building alternatives for people and planet. Changemaker Publications, Chicago., 2008)This paper suggests that the solidarity economy as a conceptual framework in progress may have significant theoretical and strategic implications for actors in the social economy. The distinct boundaries most social economy ... -
Using 3D virtual worlds: engaging learners and providing social support
(Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER), 2008)Demonstrating how an avatar-based 3-D learning environment can more fully engage learners in their online educational experience, the volunteer team of developers from Athabasca University will showcase a prototype of a ... -
Mobile library: connecting mobile learners to the library in the digital age
(Canada Library Association (CLA) Conference 2008, 2008)With the rapid evolution of technology today, distance education is about to shift to Mobile learning where e-learning materials are being delivered through mobile devices. Wireless and mobile technology provides flexibility ... -
The Right Circumstances for Multidisciplinary Research
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Online Post LPN to BN Students’ Views of Transitioning to a New Nursing Role
(International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2008)Vocationally prepared nurses, most of whom are women, experience unique challenges when they enter an online university. And yet, educational research examining their perceptions about transitioning into a new professional ...