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Academic Program Life Cycles: An Application of a Dynamic Growth Model
(2011-08-25)The basic mixed-influence diffusion growth model was extended by including economic factors (GDP, Recruitment Expenditures) deemed potentially to influence enrollment demand for academic programs. The regression analysis ... -
An Academic's Life - at AU
(2011-03-09)Ever wondering what Athabasca University was like in the mid 1970s and 1980s? Here's your chance to find out…from someone who was there. From an academic's personal perspective, Dr. Robert Holmberg, Biology Professor, ... -
"Accessible Workplace Learning Using Mobile Technology"
(2009-05-28)As workers become more mobile and the demand for training increases, there will be increasing use of flexible delivery methods to train workers. One such delivery method is mobile learning which uses mobile technology to ... -
Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education, Part II
(2014-02-06)Earlier research found only about half of 423 university psychology students correctly answered four questions involving recognizing plagiarism, and only a minority was able to rephrase a passage without producing plagiarized ... -
Accreditation, Benchmarks, and Competition: The ‘ABC’s’ of Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning
(2011-11-03)Communicating quality to various publics remains a challenge for higher education institutions engaged in open and distance learning. The quality assurance tools and approaches developed in the past decade have largely ... -
The Accumulation of Capital” – Economic Underpinnings of Rosa Luxemburg’s Democratic Socialism
(2014-02-06)Left critics of the statist policies pursued by social democrats and Soviet communists often drew inspiration from Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of union and party bureaucracies and her uncompromised commitment to the ... -
Adaptive Assessment in Web-Based Learning
(2010-06-23)Web-based assessment is used in different contexts with the aim to support students and help to make learning easier and more effective for them. Typically, the individual characteristics and needs of students are used to ... -
Addressing the Landgrab in Southern Ontario
(2012-04-04)Globally, there is a growing landgrab by investors and foreign countries of prime farmland. NGOs such as Grain and the National Farmers Union have documented the landgrab throughout the world and within Canada. This paper ... -
Adventures in Building an Online Digital Collection: The Alberta Women's Institutes Project
(2011-03-29)"This talk will address the inception and design of a new AU digital collection that focuses on self-representation in organizational histories. Our subject is the Alberta Women's Institutes, which celebrates its 100th ... -
Advertising for food and dietary supplements in the print media in South Africa
(2012-11-15)Objective: To survey advertisements for food and beverages, slimming products, and dietary supplements in South African magazines. Methods: We examined the 5 most popular magazines over one year. They are in 3 major ... -
Affordable Housing and the Social Economy in the Fraser Valley Regional District
(2012-06-29)The semantic meaning of the concept “social housing” is doubtless related to housing that has been specifically designed to meet the needs of tenants in terms of affordability and suitability. Social economic organizations ... -
Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable Management of Housing by Not-for-profit and Co-operative Organizations in Response to Decreasing Government Funding Programs
(2010-08-13)This report arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits and ... -
Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable Management of Housing by Not-for-profit and Co-operative Organizations in Response to Decreasing Government Funding Programs
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA Project A9, which looked at successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy ... -
ALBA and UNASUR – The Emergence of Counter-hegemonic Regional Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2013-03-07)Latin America and the Caribbean have been victims of more than 500-years of colonialism and imperialism. A key component of both colonialism and imperialism has been the denial of and/or distortion of sovereignty throughout ... -
"The Alberta Disadvantage: Toxic Emissions, Shoddy Science and Muzzled Voices in Alberta's Industrial Heartland"
(2011-03-29)Alberta is reaping profits from its gas fields and tar sands but at what price to public health and the environment? Drive just forty-five minutes northeast of Edmonton and you enter the Alberta Industrial Heartland. ... -
Alberta Social Economy Funder Database
(Enterprising Non-Profits, 2010-05)This database resulted from a project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA)that involved surveying the range of capital providers for social enterprise financing in the two provinces of Alberta and ... -
Alberta Social Economy Wind Projects Next Steps Strategy
(2010-07-10)This is one of three reports arising from BALTA research project B6 - Prospects for Socializing the Green Economy: The Case of Renewable Energy. It builds upon the background research conducted for the other two papers and ... -
All for One-One for All - Will the Real Musketeer "Alexandre Dumas" Please Stand Up
(2011-03-30)Alexandre Dumas père is one of the most prolific and popular French writers of all times; he wrote over 1,200 volumes comprising of 250 plays, novels and travelogues, and was among the first writers in France to use the ... -
Alternative Land Tenure and the Social Economy
(2010-07-16)This literature review was produced for BALTA Research Project D3 - Land Tenure and the Social Economy. The purpose of this project was to research shared equity land tenure models being used across the social economy ... -
Alternative Land Tenure and the Social Economy
(2010-07-16)This literature review was produced for BALTA Research Project D3 - Land Tenure and the Social Economy. The purpose of this project was to research shared equity land tenure models being used across the social economy ...