Library & Scholarly Resources: Recent submissions
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Open Minds Open Access - Conference Presentation
(2012-05-11)Digital Collections - What's out there?, How do you find it?, How do you know what you can do with it? This presentation is one of three presentations at the Open Minds Open Access Conference, held on May 10, 2012, at ... -
OER's and Sustainable Innovation: Low Cost, Low Risk but High Impact
(2011-11-04)This session will include a description of the UNESCO Chair in OER network including an update on the mandate of the Chair and the developments so far. These include agreement on support for a network of UNESCO Chairs in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Making Sense of Complexity in Open Information Environments
(2011-10-27)In the pursuit of openness, the cognitive experience of the learners and educators are often overlooked. Open educational resources present fragmented views of topics: a TedTalk video here, an Open Yale lecture there, an ... -
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 ... -
Fun and Fear in Open Spaces
(2011-10-27)This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges ... -
Bibliography of the Athabasca River Basin (BARB) Poster Presentation
(2011-04-27)An online, searchable bibliography of published materials relating to the Athabasca River Basin. BARB is intended to be a comprehensive resource for all researchers examining the Athabasca River Basin. A multidisciplinary ... -
Maximizing library presence while minimizing online maintenance
(2011-04-08)This paper presents challenges and opportunities for an academic library to increasing its presence in an online learning management system (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University ... -
The Canadian Census: All You Wanted to Know and Were Afraid to Ask!
(2011-03-09)Doug Kariel, Head, Technical Services & Systems, and Peggy Lynn MacIsaac, Reference Services Librarian, Library Services, will provide an overview of Canadian Census data, differentiating between what is available to the ... -
Interview with Dr. Mohamed Ally
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Connectivism: Connecting with Geroge Siemens Part 1 (Elluminate Recording, Java Archive, .MP4 and .MP3)
(2010-11-23)Discussion of the basic concepts of Connectivism, the context in which the theory emerged and the implications and applications of the theory in teaching. -
Resource list on Connectivism (Digital Reading Room)
(2010-11-23)List of resources on Connectivism, including websites and videos. -
Connectivism: Connecting with Geroge Siemens Part 1 (Transcript)
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Connecting with Geroge Siemens Part 1: Overview of Connectivism
(2011-11-23)Part 1 Discuses of basic concepts of Connectivism, the context in which the theory emerged and the implications and applications of the theory in teaching. regarding the future of Connectivism. -
Mobile access for workplace and language training
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Designing a mobile device automatic detector to support mobile library systems
(Facet, 2010)Content providers cannot ensure that digital material will be reformatted and accessed by any mobile device correctly due to mobile device limitations. A mobile device automatic detector can provide accurate information ... -
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 ...