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Food Prices in South Africa: Why Most People Can't Afford to Eat a Healthy Diet
(2011-03-30)Foods with a high content of fat, sugar, and refined cereals are typically cheap but are poor in nutrients and heavy with calories. By contrast, such foods as fish, vegetables, and fruit are richer in nutrients but are ... -
Forest Tent Caterpillar … information and options
(The Echo, 1986-07-01) -
Forget Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: Learning to be a Writer in Papua New Guinea
(2010-06-22)For students and instructors at colonial universities, the choice and availability of books for instruction was of central importance. Was the curriculum to replicate that of metropolitan universities? Or to accommodate ... -
Formal Student Debating: Does It Work Online?
(2011-04-01)Formal debating is a process for argumentation that has a long history of use in classroom settings to promote the development of skills associated with critical thinking and influencing others. In Athabasca Unviersity's ... -
Formalising informal learning: Assessment and accreditation challenges within disaggregated systems
(Open Praxis, 2014)This paper shares the findings and lessons learned from an investigation into the economics of disaggregated models for assessing and accrediting informal learners, with particular attention to the OER universitas (OERu) ... -
A formative evaluation model for online teachers.
(2003-01-01)Teachers are often frustrated with conventional evaluation practices normally used to establish their effectiveness, permanent status and promotion. Educators tend to take a dim view of evaluation because ultimately it is ... -
Fossils – shadows of past life
(Athabasca Advocate, 1999-07-13) -
Fostering Self-help at a Distance for Adults with Vision Loss.
(Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 2002) -
Foundations for the Social Economy
(2009-04-03)At present the strategies, policies and tools employed by the social economy in most countries are diffuse. There is no integrated narrative to bring together the small parts to form a more cohesive whole. This cross-cutting ... -
The Fourfold Revisited: Heideggerian Ecological Practice and the Ontology of Things
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A Framework for Classifying Project Management Resources.
(2011-07-02)This paper presents a conceptual framework to classify project management resources as sources of competitive advantage. The paper draws on the resource-based view of the firm. The paper proposes a relationship between ... -
A Framework for Enabling Incidental Learning on the Web
(2014-01-16)Incidental learning is learning something without intent, which usually happens at the time that is not dedicated to learn that thing. Examples of such time include work, game play and activities for leisure. In today’s ... -
A Framework for Integrating Motivational Techniques in Technology Enhanced Learning
(2012-01-24)Motivation is a key factor in education. While there exist some educational system that consider techniques for motivating students, these systems implement only one or few techniques and assume that the respective ... -
A Framework for Interaction and Cognitive Engagement in Connectivist Learning Contexts
(IRRODL, 2014-04)Interaction has always been highly valued in education, especially in distance education (Moore, 1989; Anderson, 2003; Chen, 2004a; Woo & Reeves, 2007; Wang, 2013; Conrad, in press). It has been associated with motivation ... -
The Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (Frame) Model: An Evaluation of Mobile Devices for Distance Education
(2006-05-18)Mobile technology is a new and promising area of research in distance education. Currently, there are few if any descriptive models of mobile learning that can be used to develop appropriate pedagogical practices. This ... -
Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (FRAME) Model: Revising the ABCs of Educational Practices
(Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies, 2006. ICN/ICONS/MCL 2006. International Conference on, 2006-04-23)The Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (FRAME) model was originally developed as a basis for assessing the effectiveness of mobile devices for distance learning [1]. The FRAME model is the first ... -
Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in Canada’s postcolonial popular culture
(Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2011-10)This essay analyzes the cultural functions of Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in postcolonial popular culture. Focusing on the case of Canadian film production, I begin by contextualizing Canadian film as a ... -
Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse
(University of Delaware Press, 2022)This chapter first reprises the twofold argument from my book The Medium Is the Monster: the argument that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein effectively reinvented the meaning of the word "technology" for modern English, and ... -
The Fraser Valley Social Economy with Reference to Affordable Housing Provision and Related Support Services
(2009-04-03)This document explains the plans for a research project that will provide a portrait of the nature, dynamics and extent of the social economy in the Fraser Valley, specifically with regard to the provision of affordable ...