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Language and Communication: Can Voice-Conferencing Software Assist Students to Face the Challenge of Learning to Speak a Second Language in a Distance Education Setting
(2011-03-29)The focus of this presentation is a pilot project completed in 2005 to assess the suitability of the voice-based conferencing system Horizon Wimba for use by Athabasca students registered in second language courses. In a ... -
Large Scale Deployment of Tablet Computers in K-12 Schools in Brazil
(2014-01-16)Different sectors of the society of many countries have been demanding for significant improvements in their education systems and teaching and learning practices in recent years (Keller, 2008; Latchem & Hanna, 2001). The ... -
Larry David's Jewish Comedy as an Extension of Yiddish Ashkenazic Culture in Later Hollywood Generations
(2011-03-29)On Sienfeld, Larry David mentions earlier American Jewish comedy writers such as Neil Simon. Some shows are based on models that reach far back into the history of Yiddish film, theatre and comedy. For instance, in one ... -
Le nouveau rôle des organisations de l’économie sociale: perspectives économique et sociale
(Concordia University, 2007)This presentation to a 2007 seminar in Vancouver, Canada, of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was based on research compiled for the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in ... -
Leadership in Open and Distance Higher Education
(2009-10-01)Distributed leadership is a valuable concept in terms of aligning leadership theory to changing conditions in post-industrial society. Changing economic, global and demographic formulations certainly play a role in ... -
Leading Pedagogical Change
(2014-01-16)According to Keller (2008), changes in many things including technology “constitutes [sic] the most consequential set of changes in society since the late nineteenth century, when the nation went from a largely domestic, ... -
Learning Community Development Finance: Doing Development in Arkansas
(Making Waves, 2006)This thoughtful book review is a rich and fascinating case study of community development finance. The case study is based on ten years of work by an organization started in 1986, called Southern Development Bancorporation. ... -
Learning Support for Calculus
(2011-03-09)Centre for Learning Design & Development (CLDD) Director Dr. Cindy Ives, Centre for Science Math Academic Coordinator Dr. Maria Torres, along with (CLDD) Instructional Media Analysts Sandra Law and Hongxin Yan will report ... -
Lessons Learned From Systematic Replication of Social Enterprises
(2009-02-20)This is one of three literature reviews for research project D2 - Leveraging Social Ownership of Proprietary Trademarks related to the Golden Mussel as a Base for Expansion of Social Enterprise in Coastal B.C. Aboriginal ... -
Libraries Providing Learner Support: The Collaboration Connection
(2010-06-23)This session will focus on the role that collaboration plays in supporting learners in a distance education environment. Collaboration can be found in many different guises in academe, and may involve faculty, staff and ... -
Lighting the Load: Nursing Support with Family Members of Critically Ill Adults
(2010-06-23)Results of a grounded theory from family members\' perspectives indicated that the critical illness of an adult relative launches family members into a cycle of \"work\" as they strive to \"get through\" the experience. ... -
Limiting facades of conformity and its impact: The role of supportive employment relationships
(2012-11-15)This research investigated whether perceived organizational support and leader member exchange affect employees’ use of facades of conformity, and how facades of conformity affect employee outcomes such as emotional ... -
"Linguistic Fingerprinting and Literary Fraud"
(2011-03-29)Many experts of literary style postulate that style is dictated by the subconscious and forms the "genetic" fingerprint of a writer's work. This implies that (a) it is impossible to disguise one's style and (b) that works ... -
Listening with mobile devices: An ecological approach to context-embedded learning
(2013-07-09)This presentation discusses a design-based research (DBR) study into effective design for teaching listening in the real world using mobile devices. An emergent theory of learning, ecological constructivism (EC), was chosen ... -
Location-Based Learning Management System for Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2014-01-16)E-learning and distance learning are all forms of learning that take place outside of a traditional learning environment and can be alternatives for learners who are not able to study in a traditional environment for various ... -
Lost in Transmission: Contextual Variation in Chimpanzee Pant Hoots and its Implications for Referential Communication in Primates
(2011-03-29)Pant hoots are the species-typical 'loud' call used by chimpanzees to communicate over long distances. Some previous studies have explored the possibility that there are acoustically distinct subtypes of pant hoots that ... -
Lucy Broadwood and English Folksong: the Early Years
(2011-03-29)Lucy E. Broadwood was closely involved with the first English Folksong Revival from the late 1880s until her death in 1929. An accomplished singer and pianist, Broadwood was an important folksong collector who also served ... -
Luminescence Dating Technique Contributions to Geological Research: Hondo-Smith Case Study
(2011-03-09)"Describing the principles behind the luminescence dating technique, which is currently being applied to research on wind deposited dune structures, Dr. Ken Munyikwa, Asst. Prof., Earth Science, Centre for Science, will ... -
Luminescence profiling of postglacial eolian dunes in central and northern Alberta using a portable OSL reader
(2011-11-02)Regular luminescence dating is a lengthy procedure that entails elaborate sample preparation as well as multiple measurements to arrive at an age of a given sample. In practice, not all samples that may appear datable in ...