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Now showing items 841-860 of 2001
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Post-Secondary Learning Priorities of Workers in an Oil Sands Camp in Northern Alberta
(2008-05-27)This paper reports results to date of a three-year project by Athabasca University, intended to determine the education and training needs and interests of employees in a work camp in northern Alberta’s oil sands. (Future ... -
Assessing the Quality of K-12 Online Content: A sample assessment rubric
(2008-05-30)What factors create an effective online course from a “content” point of view? This session will highlight the assessment criteria and the review process that was used to review the content of K-12 online learning tools ... -
The factor structure of teaching development needs for distance delivered e-learning
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Co-op Elder Care in Canada: A Call to Action
(British Columbia Co-operative Association, 2008-06)This report is the result of the work of a two year National Task Force on Co-op Elder Care that was established by the Canadian Co-operative Association. It explores the state of co-op elder care in Canada, considers the ... -
The Effective Use of Synchronous Classes within an Online Graduate Program: Building upon an Interdependent System
(2008-06-06)In this presentation, Janet Groen, Janet Tworek, and Maria Soos-Gonczol will discuss the implementation of effective synchronous voice communication sessions within a graduate level university program in education from the ... -
Food Adverts on Children's Programs on TV in South Africa
(2008-06-09)Research in the U.S.A. since the early 1990s has shown that adverts that appear on children’s programs on TV are the antithesis of the recommended diet. They are mainly for fast foods and for foods rich in sugar and fat. ... -
Staff Utilization of Explicit Hope Facilitation Strategies in Long Term Care
(2008-06-09)Research offers compelling evidence of the pivotal role that hope plays in health and personal well-being outcomes for individuals who are acutely, chronically or terminally ill. Many individuals who are living in long ... -
Phone Numbers: In Between Private, Public, Personal, Pedagogical, Political Calls
(2008-06-09)The number and choice of online and distance graduate education programs in Canada is growing. Literature of this emerging field debates the quality of programs and delivery strategies to ensure that students feel connected ... -
Relationships between Breweries and Retailers in Cameroon
(2008-06-09)The aim of this paper is to examine how the use of various influence strategies affect retailers’ economic and non economic satisfaction in the brewery industry in Cameroon. The Cameroon brewery industry consists of a few ... -
New Linkages: Market Based Domestic Policy Reform and the Triggering of Obligations under International Trade Law
(2008-06-09)The paper argues that the ostensible exemption of domestic social policy fields from the application of international trade agreements actually results in the introduction of two powerful structures potentially constraining ... -
Implications for Professional Practice of Assessing Prior Learning
(2008-06-09)How can we certify career practitioners for practice while at the same time respecting the rich and wide diversity of career-related experience that applicants bring to the certification process? This session starts by ... -
Characteristics of interactive online media
(2008-06-11)This chapter describes technologies used to overcome distance in online learning. Online learning media are tools for cooperation, collaboration, and communication. These devices allow for provision of individual amounts ... -
Automated Forward Modelling and its Results for Substorms and Sawtooth Events
(2008-06-18)Automated Forward Modelling is used to contrast quantitative aspects of substorms and sawtooth events. -
The Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2008-06-19)This presentation to the 2008 AGM of the British Columbia Co-operative Association is based on research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The research involved a case study of the recent ... -
Emotion, Learning and the Online Learning Environment
(2008-06-20)In spite of evidence that more and more students are engaging in online learning experiences (Alan & Seaman, 2006), clarity about the transition to a new learning environment is still at arm’s length (Cleveland-Innes, ... -
BALTA Bits & Bites - Spring 2008
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2008-07)This is the quarterly newsletter of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). It contains news about BALTA and social economy developments in Alberta and British Columbia. -
A Methodology for Developing Learning Objects for Web Course Delivery
(IGI Publishing, 2008-07)This paper presents a methodology for developing learning objects for Web-based courses using the IMS LD (Learning Design) specification. We first investigated the IMS LD specification, determining how to use it with ... -
Globalizing `Global Studies’: Vehicle for Disciplinary and Regional Bridges?
(De Gruyter, 2008-07)The most contentious and critical questions of contemporary times relate to the nature, scope, impact and conceptualization of globalization. The intensified impact of globalization and the acceptance that it is a contemporary ... -
Inclusiveness – Community, Distance Education and Produsage
(2008-07-10)Keynote talk delivered at 2nd Conference of African Association of Distance Education held in Lagos Nigeria, July 2008