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What a librarian can do for your open online course
(2013-03-05)Information literacy tools used in face-to-face, blended, or online course environments are not scalable to massive open online courses, or MOOCs. We need a different approach based on the unique skills librarians bring ... -
What Does Formal Online Debating Bring to Graduate Education?
(2010-07-14)Debating is a formal process of argument that has a long tradition of application in education. Educators value it as a strategy for promoting the development of skills associated with influencing others using logic, facts, ... -
What is the social economy? Contested ground or alternative lenses?
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2010-09-30)This power point presentation explores the emergence of the social economy as a field of study and examines several approaches to defining and conceptualizing the social economy. It suggests that each approach has utility ... -
What might cause a benevolent government to be corrupt when agents are honest? An Insight with triadic relationships
(2010-08-11)Note: In order to make my points clear, I am providing an executive summary rather than an abstract. Executive Summary The extant literature that seeks to explain corruption in government bureaucracies usually refers ... -
What Value Social Enterprise? Understanding the success of Atira Property Management
(Making Waves, 2005)A charity that manages transition houses in B.C.'s lower mainland is in the curious position of both making and breaking the case for social enterprise. Atira Women's Resource Society has found itself well-positioned to ... -
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ... -
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ... -
When a Guilty Verdict is in the Accused’s Best Interests
(2010-06-22)Lawyers’ ethical codes direct defence counsel to protect clients from criminal conviction. If acquittal isn’t possible, the minimal sentence should be secured. This paper argues that in specific case types neither an ... -
When Retailers are More Powerful
(2010-06-23)The long-term effects of promotions on sales are increasingly linked to the supposed shift of economic power within channels from manufacturers to retailers. However, formal knowledge about how they influence channel ... -
Where is the “m” in Skills for Life?
(2007-10-09)There are changes afoot in the world of Skills for Life. The post-Moser “golden era” in which the teaching of literacy and numeracy moved from the shadows into the spotlight may be about to shift focus. Is there still a ... -
Who Should you write for? - Competing Literary Systems in Colonial Papua and New Guinea
(2013-03-07)Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ... -
Whole-School Mental Health Programming: Concentric Collaborative Conversations
(2010-07-14)This workshop will describe the development and operation of the Wellness Empowerment Program (WEP), and a mental health capacity building project, funded by Alberta Health Services, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and operating ... -
Wild Imaginings: Discourses and Representations of Nature from the Alberta Report
(2010-06-23)Alberta Report, founded by ultra-conservative Ted Byfield, was a weekly publication that espoused political and social conservatism and provided a training ground for a generation of conservative journalists. Byfield saw ... -
William Chappell's Historical Hit Parade
(2011-03-09)William Chappell, pioneer historian of English popular music, researched and published vernacular songs from the late Middle Ages to 18th Century. Based on his recently published book, "Victorian Songhunters", Dr. David ... -
Women & Distance Education: Issues and Perspectives
(2011-03-09)In North America, where the majority of Distance Education (DE) learners are female, women face a multitude of barriers and challenges, the effects of which can result in undue stress and attrition in DE programs. Dr. ... -
Work, Learning, Inequality and the Academy
(2012-11-15)This paper will look at the connections between work, learning and inequality and apply these understandings to the academy as a worksite. (Theorizing from the literature) Introduction The connection between “work and ... -
Workers Against Austerity – Lessons from Canada’s ‘Days of Action,’ 1995-1998
(2011-05-03)Workers versus Austerity: Lessons from Canada's Days of Action, 1995-1998 The Great Recession has left in its wake an expected "age of austerity" where the deficits accumulated to stave off economic collapse, are being ... -
Workers social wage struggles in the Great Depression and the era of Neo-Liberalism: International Comparisons
(2011-11-02)This paper looks globally at the ways in which workers attempted to win a degree of income stability through state guarantees of social entitlements in two periods: first, the Great Depression, when income stability via ... -
Working Anytime Anywhere: Mobile Knowledge Workers
(2014-01-16)Recent advances in mobile technologies and the popular use of mobile devices in our daily lives suggest that knowledge worker can now work from anywhere at any time, or while on the move. Is this true? Research suggests ... -
Workplaces of Teleworkers
(2010-07-14)Teleworking has become quite popular in developed countries in recent years, but its growth has stabilized. A comfortable work environment at home is often cited as one key advantage of teleworking from home. Little ...