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Environmental Literacy and Distance Learning: A Window to the Future of Education in Ontario
(2006-08-10)Increasingly, scholars claim that formal education fails to provide for either the current or future needs of our society and, because of this, the field of education finds itself is at a crossroads. During the last two ... -
The epidemic of obesity in South Africa: a study in a disadvantaged community.
(Ethnicity Disease, 2001)Objective: The objective of this study was: 1) to determine the anthropometric profile of adults In Mamre, a small town In South Africa, which has a population of mixed ancestry ("colored" people of Afro-Euro-Malay-Khoisan ... -
Epistemology and Ideology: The Case of Mediation
(2011-03-29)Mediation, once an "alternative" process, has gone mainstream. Most courts in North America now include it as part of normal litigation procedure. In the United States there is even fear that mediation will lead to the ... -
Epistolary and Expository Interaction Patterns in a Computer Conference Transcript
(Journal of Distance Education, 2002)Epistolary and expository discourse types have been associated with gender in earlier research on transcripts from listservs and other unmoderated sources. A procedure for transcript analysis (the Transcript Analysis ... -
Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for all – including those with multiple disabilities
(2014-01-16)The presenter will share many practical ideas for helping people who have both cognitive and severe physical challenges to do more and communicate better than they thought they could. One part of the presentation will be ... -
Erinnerung, Retrait, Absolute Reflection: Hegel and Derrida
(The Owl of Minerva, 1995)In this essay I show that Jacques Derrida not only mistakenly reads the Hegelian text in terms of reflection, but that his own way of thinking could be characterized from a Hegelian perspective as itself reflective. For ... -
Essential Skills Computerized Occupational Readiness Training (ESCORT) Demonstration Project, Canada.
(Idea Group., 2006-08)ABSTRACT: This chapter describes the purpose, processes, and effects of an e-learning employment readiness system, ESPORT, currently being pilot tested in Canada. The Essential Skills Portfolio (ESPORT) system is a ... -
Establishing a Co-op Development System in BC & Alberta
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of two BALTA research projects (C2 and C7) examining the existing co-operative development system ... -
Ethical Issues in Qualitative E-Learning Research
(International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2007-06)In the mid 1980s education researchers began exploring the use of the Internet within teaching and learning practices, now commonly referred to as e-learning. At the same time, many e-learning researchers were discovering that ... -
Ethics and Economics: An Internal Relation
(2012-11-15)The relationship between ethics and economics in the modern age is typically viewed as external. This view is most usually articulated in the notion that for economic relations to be ethical, an ethic must be imposed; ... -
The Ethics of Internet-Based Counselling Services
(2013-07-09)The rapid growth of Internet technologies has brought new opportunities for the design and delivery of counselling services. As little as 10 years ago e-counselling and similar services were at the periphery of the profession; ... -
Ethics Review Concerns Of Canada’s Distance Researchers
(2009-01-23)Ethics review of research involving humans is intended to protect human dignity by balancing harms and benefits. The foci and methods used in reviews vary nationally, but tend, as in Canada, to address core principles ... -
Ethnomycological notes from Papua New Guinea
(2006)The literature on the use of psychotropic fungi in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea has been reviewed. An attempt has been made to evaluate whether the previously reported “mushroom madness” still exists in the ... -
The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version
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Evaluating La Francophone: Myths and Realities
(2011-03-29)"At the moment, French seems to be engaged in a losing battle against American English in the world. To fight this trend, a multinational group of some 44 authors who write in French, have proposed, in a manifesto/, /the ... -
Evaluating the Relative Efficiencies and Effectiveness of the Call Centre and Tutor Models of Learner Support at Athabasca University
(2009-06-17)Athabasca University is Canada’s largest distance-based, open university. Its undergraduate courses are offered mostly by individualized learning. Students can register in courses at the start of any month. They can proceed ... -
Evaluating Vendor Supplied Information
(International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2003-04)Distance educators are not normally equipped by their training or experience for the complex task of evaluating technologies. One of the areas of potential disadvantage is in interpreting information provided by vendors ... -
An Evaluation of the Commonwealth of Learning section on Elearning for International Organisations
(2008-10-31)This report includes an evaluation of the work of the Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) eLearning with International Organisations (eLIO) section. Participants in the investigation included representative samples of the ... -
An evalutation of the British Columbia rural health video network link.
(2002-01-01)The British Columbia Rural Health Video Network Link initiative strove to provide quality educational experiences, clinical consultations, and clinical service support to the population of nine physicians in Vanderhoof ... -
An Evening Sector Ps 6 - Omega Band Event
(2008-01-29)Abstract. Ps 6 magnetic disturbances and associated optical forms known as omega bands are usually associated with the morning sector. Some evidence for similar phenomenology in the evening sector has been presented ...