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Co-presented 3 papers: "E-Portfolios: A Viable Capstone Activity for Graduate Programs", "Developing Community of Inquiry in a Mobile Learning Context", and "Connecting at the Point of Care: Indirect Supervision in Nursing Practice Education."
(2009-05-21)Paper 1:E-Portfolios: A Viable Capstone Activity for Graduate Programs Abstract: A pilot study was conducted to explore the use of e-portfolios as an alternative to the standard written and oral comprehensive examination ... -
"Cognitive Illusions and the History of Science"
(2011-03-29)A Cognitive illusion is the mental analogue of an optical illusion. In an optical illusion we see something as other than it is and, even knowing this to be the case, continue to experience the illusion. In a cognitive ... -
Collaborating Towards a Global Community: Bridges to the Future Workshops
(2013-07-10)“Collaborating Towards a Global Community: Bridges to the Future” Workshops and sessions at the AACRAO Annual Meeting will demonstrate the development and implementation of a vision that guides decision makers toward ... -
Collaborating with Unions to Tell the Workers’ Story: the Celanese Edmonton Workers’ Commemoration Project
(2010-06-23)Over the past 8 years, the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI) has produced videos and transcriptions of over 200 interviews with trade union leaders, activists, and rank-and-filers in an effort to produce a workers' ... -
Collaboration, Innovation & Organizational Learning: An Exploration of Non-profit Clusters and Shared Spaces
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of a BALTA research project (D4) that explored the benefits of social enterprise and non-profit ... -
A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping & Multi-Object Oriented Augmented Reality for Location-based Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2010-08-11)1) A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping This paper presents a collaborative mobile learning system: Mobile Virtual Campus (MVC) powered by the location-based dynamic grouping ... -
Community Economic Development Opportunities in Alberta
(2016-06-25)The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) and Momentum, a Calgary, Alberta based community economic development (CED) organization, have issued this brief in Alberta. The brief is directed to the Alberta ... -
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
(2007-09-18)How the two terms community economic development and community development finance are defined is crucial to the construction of any development system, whether it be geographic or functional in scope. What the terms are ... -
Community Finance and Investment Options: Local Capital Investment and Finance Options for Rural Alberta Communities
(Athabasca University, 2012)This report is part of a project on Sustainability Options for Resource Based Rural Communities. The profound socio-economic shift occurring because of global economic restructuring has created a financing gap in many ... -
Community Finance Options: Sustainability Options for Resource Based Rural Communities
(Athabasca University, 2012)This summary report is part of a project on Sustainability Options for Resource Based Rural Communities. The profound socio-economic shift occurring because of global economic restructuring has created a financing gap in ... -
Community Land Trusts
(2008-11-12)This presentation was given at a workshop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, co-sponsored by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) and the Edmonton Community Foundation. It provided an introduction to land ... -
Community Organizing & Economic Democracy in New England
(Making Waves, 1991)Citizens' action organizations in the Naugatuck and Merrimack valleys in rural and small town Connecticut have been integrating strategies of social and economic development to restore a region seriously threatened by the ... -
Community reinvestment and the challenges of scaling up the social economy
(2007-10)This presentation to the 2007 CIRIEC International Research Conference provided an overview of results from initial literature reviews conducted on behalf of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The ... -
The Community Resilience Manual--A New Resource Will Link Rural Revitalization To CED Best Practice
(Making Waves, 1999)All our small towns aren't reeling from current economic developments; some have prospered, responding to crisis with creativity, unity, and a determination to control their own destiny. What have they got that others ... -
Community-Based Recycling put on Hold: Cambridge’s failed bid to replicate the ERS
(Making Waves, 1995)Inspired by the success of the Edmonton Recycling Society,(Guenter, 1995) an innovative CED organization in Southern Ontario mobilized to compete for a major recycling contract in the Waterloo region. However, procurement ... -
Community-controlled economic development as a strategic vision for the sustainable agriculture movement
(Making Waves, 2000)If industrial agriculture is ever to be dislodged, its opponents must achieve a strategic vision that encompasses a vast range of issues. Labour practices, pesticide reduction, farmland protection, nutrition, and consumer ... -
Complexity, Healthcare Systems and the Aporias of Healthcare Reform
(2014-01-16)Paradoxically, “complexity” in health care systems has spurred both an application of complexity theory to health care organizations and a greater assertion of health care’s essentially political nature. This “increasingly ... -
Computer Science: Where (and why) have all the women gone?
(2010-06-23)Like other post-secondary institutions in North America, Athabasca University has not been successful in either recruiting or retaining women to its Computing and Information Science programmes. The gradual decline in ... -
Concepts and Context
(2007-03-04)This first section of the book introduces key concepts, assumptions and ways of understanding the context within which CED and the social economy have evolved. While making no claim this modest beginning represents some ... -
Concretizing Asian Canadian Theatre
(2010-07-14)Founded in Edmonton in 1989 as a community-action collective company, Concrete Theatre has prioritized in its mandate a focus on cultural diversity. For the past twenty years, it has created workshops for schools and ...