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Designing Mobile Learning Interventions for Language Learners
(2013-09-12)This chapter presents a case of an EDR study completed at a Canadian community college and resulting in the development of an innovative educational intervention, Mobile–Enabled Language Learning Eco-System (MELLES), as ... -
Designing the Undesignable: Social Software and Control
(2008-02-28)In this presentation, Dr. Jon Dron will discuss his recently published article, “Designing the undesignable: Social Software and Control”. In this article, Dr Dron states that social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging ... -
The Determinants of the Corporate Hedging Decision: An Empirical Analysis
(2009-11-26)This paper is concerned with testing the hypotheses put forth by Smith and Stulz (1985) and Nance, Smith and Smithson (1993) regarding the four reasons for which a firm will hedge. In this paper, we extend the analysis ... -
Determinates of Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Effects of Organizational Culture
(2009-10-01)Buyer-supplier relationship has been gaining increasing attention in the last few decades. A skilled and loyal supplier base has proved to be a key source of competitive advantage. Despite such attention, most of the ... -
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, ... -
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Training Programs Provided by WHO: The Feasibility of Incorporating Social Justice, Cultural Competency, Social Justice and Investment
(2010-06-22)The paper describes a study that examined training programs at WHO. The feasibility of incorporating indicators of return on investment, social justice and cultural competency was explored. Every year increasing amounts ... -
Developing a student model for distance education.
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Developing and implementing a continuing competence program for professional psychologists: A Canadian perspective
(2011-08-25)Discusses the development of a continuing competence program for professional psychologists. Many North American jurisdictions have mandatory continuing education that involves collecting continuing education hours in a ... -
Development and performance of the 2nd generation micro-magnetometer originally developed by Dr. Martin Connors
(2010-06-23)I will be presenting a poster detailing development and performance of the second generation micro-magnetometer originally developed by Dr. Martin Connors at Athabasca University. This magnetometer, newly re-engineered ... -
Development and validation of a knowledge test for health professionals regarding lifestyle modification
(Nutrition, 2003)Objective: We wanted to develop and validate a test that assesses the knowledge and practices of health professionals (HPs) with regard to the role of nutrition, physical activity, and smoking cessation (lifestyle modification) ... -
Development of a Defence Learning Network for the Canadian Department of National Defence
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Development of a user-friendly interface for the creation of user elements
(1996)The solution of the basic equations relating stiffness, displacement and force in finite element analysis is not trivial, partially due to the large numbers of equations involved. Various techniques have been developed for ... -
Development of an Introductory Financial Accounting OER at Athabasca University
(2014-01-16)A project underway at Athabasca University to develop an Introductory Financial Accounting text as an open educational resource will be described. The resource will be used in one of the University’s largest undergraduate ... -
Development principles for online courses: A baker's dozen
(ELearn Magazine, 2005-11-29)Course development on the World Wide Web is becoming more sophisticated as instructors and course specialists become more familiar with the environment. Most course development principles for online courses have been ... -
Developmental disabilities co-occurring with Mental illness
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Developming multimedia mLearning for mobiles
(2007-10-05)This short paper presents a prototype multimedia learning object that has been developed for the mobile phone. It outlines the rationale for this work and then discusses the issues raised and the design solutions that ... -
Diabetes Care in the Capital Health Region: A Model of Chronic Disease Management
(2010-06-23)The prevalence of chronic disease is increasing in Canada and around the world. People are living longer and are developing chronic conditions and often multiple co-morbidities. The growing population of people suffering ... -
Diabetic control, dietary intake and barriers to dietary compliance in black type 2 diabetic patients attending primary health-care services
(Public Health Nutrition, 2002)Objective: To determine the dietary intake, practices, knowledge and barriers to dietary compliance of black South African type 2 diabetic patients attending primary health-care services in urban and rural areas. Design: ... -
Diet, blood lipids and coronary heart disease: current controversies
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Diet, nutrition and the prevention of type 2 diabetes
(Public Health Nutrition, 2004)Objectives: The overall objective of this study was to evaluate and provide evidence and recommendations on current published literature about diet and lifestyle in the prevention of type 2 diabetes. Design: Epidemiological ...