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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 ... -
Conducting Research on the Internet:: Online Survey Design, Development and Implementation Guidelines
(2007-11-05)Using the Internet to conduct quantitative research presents challenges not found in conventional research. Some of our knowledge concerning the effective design and use of paper-based surveys does translate into electronic ... -
Confessing Anger in the Late Middle Ages
(2010-06-24)Wrath was one of the Seven Deadly Sins, a popular schema for moral instruction and the interrogation of penitents during confession. The emphasis given to either the social or spiritual aspects of the vice can indicate the ... -
Connecting Learners in Self-Paced Undergraduate Study: Practitioner Cases
(2014-01-16)Enabling students to take responsibility for and make choices about aspects of their learning is an important affordance of distance education. Distance learners determine the time and place for their studies—those engaged ... -
Conservation Land Trusts in Alberta
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of BALTA related research into land trusts, specifically an examination of conservation land trusts ... -
Constructing a Sustainable Future: Exploring the Strategic Relevance of Social and Solidarity Economy Frameworks
(2007-08)This working paper explores recent economic trends and thinking and the resulting conceptualizations of social and solidarity economy. The project focused on examining the definition of social economy being used by BALTA ... -
The Contextual-Functional Meta-Framework: Developing Your Unique Approach to Clinical Supervision
(2012-11-15)In this workshop, participants will learn the six components of the Contextual-Functional Meta-Framework (CFM) for Clinical Supervision, and the nine roles of supervision. Participants will use the CFM in articulating and ... -
"Continuous Response Evaluation of Digital Clips Over the Internet"
(2009-07-20)The main objective of the conference is to promote and disseminate the experiences in New Technologies in Education and E-learning in all educational fields and disciplines. EDULEARN09 will be a unique International Forum ... -
Continuous Response Evaluation of Digital Video Clips over the Internet” and Strategies for Success: Meta-Cognitive Vidcasts for Orientation of Online Learners
(2009-11-26)1. Continuous response evaluation of video and film has been a useful method in media. It has been particularly prevalent in advertising as it allows producers to pinpoint events that evoke particularly strong audience ... -
Contract Management Principles and Practices
(2011-11-18)In this course, you will learn how to manage all aspects of project procurement effectively. You will discover the logic behind contracting principles and practices, and you'll learn the terms, techniques, and tools of ... -
Conversational Agents and Learning Outcomes: An Experimental Investigation
(2010-06-22)An experimental approach was used to compare two types of web interfaces (standard web page vs. conversational agent) to course content on the life and theories of Jean Piaget. The content in each interface was identical ... -
Converting Print-Based Course Materials for Online Delivery
(2010-08-04)As part of an ongoing effort to move from print-based, distance-delivered course materials to online delivery, Athabasca University is undertaking to convert files stored in an SGML-based print publishing system to XHTML-based ... -
Coop Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach: Research Project Overview
(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 action research project (A7) linked to a spatial design research approach working with a ... -
Cooperative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Missing Link
(2013-07-09)This study examines organizational culture as a strategic determinant of cooperative buyer–supplier relationships. While historically, organizations sought lowest-bid solutions by having suppliers compete against one ... -
Coordinating Autonomous Agents For Force Protection Using Contract Nets
(2010-06-23)The survivability of a naval surface combatant depends largely on the effective management of combat resources. In terms of platform-centric self-protection, situation assessment strategies and engagement policies governing ...