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Open Opportunity through Open Scholarship and Open Publication
(2010-10-19)Dr Frits Pannekoek is the President of Athabasca University and President of the International Council on Open and Distance Education. He is an advocate for the open distribution of scholarly works and has been the driving ... -
Oxbow point (ca. 4500-4100 BP)
(2017)Oxbow point (ca. 4500-4100 BP). Jones Collection (56-1/2505), Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary. Note: Some distortion on area of reflective/silver nail polish (for labeling). Scanned ... -
Panel on Moving to Open Educational Resources at Athabasca University
(2011-10-27)Dr. Cindy Ives, Director of the Centre for Learning Design and Development (CLDD) at Athabasca University, discusses recent projects in the CLDD that have focused on open educational resources including initiatives to ... -
Panel on open library, scholarship and learning at Athabasca University
(Open Access Week 2010, 2010)AUSpace: Building an effective institutional repository to support research communities and open access. AUSpace is Athabasca University’s (AU) digital content repository. Its goal is to preserve and disseminate AU ... -
Panel on Open Library, Scholarship and Learning at Athabasca University
(2010-10-22)Tony Tin, founder of Athabasca University's digital content repository, AUSpace, discusses the organization of AUSpace, its benefits for open access support, researchers and organizations, and research findings of AUSpace ... -
Planes, Trains and Tour Buses: Libraries in Unexpected Places
(2009-06-22)Destination travel readers are those who seek reading material while at or en route to their destination. There is a growing trend of hotel and tour operators offering books on loan to their guests. This has meant that ... -
Post Secondary Leadership and the OER Movement
(2011-10-27)ER provide both opportunity and anxiety to University Administrators. While they see possible savings, at the same time they see new expenditures without accompanying revenues. Little understanding exists by either ... -
Preparing for the Digital University
(2015-03-13)Large sectors of society are digitizing, resulting in changed practices in journalism, entertainment, and business in general. Higher education is not immune to these changes. Digitization processes are well underway and ... -
Profile of the Distance Education Library User
(4th Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 1988-10-20) -
Resource list on Connectivism (Digital Reading Room)
(2010-11-23)List of resources on Connectivism, including websites and videos. -
Road to Mobile Learning
(mLearn 2011, 2011)To meet the needs of students, and fulfill Athabasca University‘s mission to remove barriers to learning, Athabasca University (AU) Library has initiated a number of mobile learning projects.The poster ―Road to Mobile ... -
Sleeping with the Elephant – Leveraging AU’s Position through Open Courseware
(2012-10-26)There has been an explosion of content in open (and not-so-open) forms in recent years, much of it highly relevant to Distance Education. It can be asserted that AU’s claim to fame is less the creation of content than the ... -
Student Satisfaction with Library Services: Results of Evaluation Using Focus Groups
(Eighth Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 1998-04-22)This paper presents the findings of focus group survey of Athabasca University students. Using teleconference, three sessions with students across Canada were conducted. Students report a high level of statisfaction with ... -
Sustainability Strategies For Open Educational Resources
(2015-03-13)Open Educational Resources (OER) often start as pilot projects initiated by early innovators in higher education institutions. Others are initiated by government. Frequently these projects receive some kind of start up ... -
Test on June 10
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Test on June 7
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Test2 on June 6
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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 ... -
Using Open Production of Course Content to make a Difference
(2010-10-19)Dr. Wayne Mackintosh is the Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, member of the Board of Directors of the Open Education Foundation, and founder of the WikiEducator ...