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Libraries Providing Learner Support: The Collaboration Connection
(University of Wisconsin Madison, 2007)
Collaboration is an essential component in providing learner support in the distance learning environment. It can be found in many different guises in academe, and may involve faculty, staff and librarians. This paper ...
Contribution of AU's e-Lab initiative to Open Access and OER Development
(2012-10-26)
All universities have labs where research and teaching are conducted, where the physical tools of research and teaching are stored, where people get together to talk about their work and their ideas, and where the results ...
Open access archives and repositories
(Open Access Week 2009, 2009)
Governments and research funding organizations are increasingly reluctant to fund research that is not widely distributed and affordable, creating the need for repositories through which scholars can legally distribute ...
Innovation in workplace and language training; the Athabasca University mobile workplace project
(ICT2010 Singapore, 2010)
The need for studies on learning via mobile device, particularly how workplace and language training might be conducted, grows in importance, as more and more people become mobile device users.
The Athabasca University ...
Create mobile content using a mobile-friendly knowledge management system: The Athabasca University experience
(m-Libraries 2009, 2009)
Very few knowledge management systems are mobile-friendly, resulting in limited access to content through mobile devices. Researchers and developers have put good effort into developing a mobile-friendly knowledge management ...
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 ...
Mobile library: connecting mobile learners to the library in the digital age
(Canada Library Association (CLA) Conference 2008, 2008)
With the rapid evolution of technology today, distance education is about to shift to Mobile
learning where e-learning materials are being delivered through mobile devices. Wireless and
mobile technology provides flexibility ...
From m-library to mobile ESL: Athabasca University as an advocate for mobile learning
(m-Libraries 2007, 2007)
Athabasca University (AU) library has taken an active role in advocating mobile
learning within the institution and has been developing mobile friendly resources
and services to cater to diverse learners since 2004. AU ...
Managing and Learning in MOOCs (massive open online courses)
(2010-10-21)
George Siemens, with Athabasca's Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, is best known for his development of the pedagogical model of networked learning known as Connectivism. He and Steven Downes have pioneered ...
Mobile library: connecting new generations of learners to the library in the mobile age
(m-Libraries 2009, 2009)
Digital library services delivered through mobile devices can offer flexibility in terms of access and content, increased hands-on experience, and enhanced information and mobile literacy skills of learners. Athabasca ...