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Warhol Wild: Applied Colour Theory Course
(2011-03-30)The Pop Art movement and the iconic themes of Andy Warhol have opened up many doors to the joyous notions of colour and have allowed it to move beyond the boundaries of tradition. The wild experiments of the colour field ... -
We Know More Than You Think! What do we know about the student experience? What draws students to Athabasca University?
(2011-03-30)Dr. Nancy Parker, Director, Institutional Studies, will present key trends for Athabasca University learners and support services. Discussion will include benchmarking surveys, highlighting data obtained from a number of ... -
Weaving Digital Pathways with Blogging
(2009-11-26)Blogging allows educators and students to connect in new ways to enhance the learning experience. There are various reasons for including blogging activities including building audience awareness and a sense of community. ... -
The Web of Identity: Selfhood and Belonging in Online Learning Networks
(2010-06-17)In this paper, the reflexive relationship between social interaction and understanding of self in online learning networks is examined. In keeping with constructionism, we acknowledge the significance of social interaction ... -
West Chilcotin Forest Products: A joint venture defies the odds in B.C.'s troubled forest industry.
(Making Waves, 2002)Since 1995, the inhabitants of Nimpo and Anahim lakes in the Chilcotin region of west-central British Columbia have found a way to run a logging and manufacturing business that respects First Nations traditional territory, ... -
Westlock Grain Terminals : A Case Study
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on a case study of Westlock Grain Terminals, a new generation co-operative in Alberta, Canada. -
Westlock Grain Terminals : A Case Study
(Alberta Community & Co-operative Association (ACCA), 2009)This is a case study of Westlock Grain Terminals, a very successful new generation co-operative located in Westlock, Alberta. In 2002, when the community found out that their grain terminal was going to be sold, they ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Works In Progress: Keeping The Measurement Of A Community's Progress Community-Centred
(Making Waves, 2003)Indicators are complicated and sensitive instruments, no question. So whenever they get applied to community development, there is a trade-off between technical standards and local engagement. Often (too often) that trade-off ...