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Formal Student Debating: Does It Work Online?
(2011-04-01)Formal debating is a process for argumentation that has a long history of use in classroom settings to promote the development of skills associated with critical thinking and influencing others. In Athabasca Unviersity's ... -
Foundations for the Social Economy
(2009-04-03)At present the strategies, policies and tools employed by the social economy in most countries are diffuse. There is no integrated narrative to bring together the small parts to form a more cohesive whole. This cross-cutting ... -
A Framework for Enabling Incidental Learning on the Web
(2014-01-16)Incidental learning is learning something without intent, which usually happens at the time that is not dedicated to learn that thing. Examples of such time include work, game play and activities for leisure. In today’s ... -
A Framework for Integrating Motivational Techniques in Technology Enhanced Learning
(2012-01-24)Motivation is a key factor in education. While there exist some educational system that consider techniques for motivating students, these systems implement only one or few techniques and assume that the respective ... -
The Fraser Valley Social Economy with Reference to Affordable Housing Provision and Related Support Services
(2009-04-03)This document explains the plans for a research project that will provide a portrait of the nature, dynamics and extent of the social economy in the Fraser Valley, specifically with regard to the provision of affordable ... -
Fraser Valley Social Economy: Affordable Housing Project
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA Project A6, which looked at affordsble housing provision through social economy organizations in the Upper ... -
From Komagata Maru to Kanishka: The Indian Diaspora in Canada in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
(2009-09-04)Anita Rau Badami’s third novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? is dedicated to “the man on the bridge in Modinagar and the Victims of Air India Flight 182.” The sight of a Sikh man burned alive as retribution for Indira ... -
From Licensed Practical Nurse to Registered Nurse: Easing the Transition
(2009-11-26)Vocationally prepared nurses, most of whom are women, experience unique challenges when they complete a university degree program. And yet, educational research examining how educators and employers can support their ... -
From M-learning pilot activity to embedded practice: using formative evaluation to inform scaled-up implementation
(2007-10-18)This paper describes the implementation of a mobile learning strategy centred on the use of PDAs by learners in the 9-14 age range having 24/7 access. It is presented from two perspectives. The first is from the practical ... -
From this Earth: NECRC & the evolution of a development system in Winnipeg's North End
(Making Waves, 2002)The power and promise of the community development corporation (CDC) lies in the way residents can use it to co-ordinate and focus the energy that people and organizations, near and far, are willing to pour into local ... -
From Vocational College to University: How One Group of Nurses Experienced the Transition
(2010-11-30)Vocationally trained Licensed Practical Nurses who attend university to earn a Bachelor of Nursing degree may lack the confidence, self direction and independence needed to succeed in higher education. This qualitative ... -
Games for Health: Dreams and Video Game Play and Canadian Game Studies Association: Dreams and Video Game Play
(2010-07-14)In a series of studies Gackenbach and colleagues have been investigating the relationship between video game play and dreams. It is increasingly apparent that nighttime dreams are crucial to memory consolidation, information ... -
"Getting Online" The GO Project--A Research Report on Online Learning for Canadian Literacy Practitioners
(2009-06-05)The Getting Online: Distance Education Practices for Canadian Literacy Practitioners (the GO Project) is a two-year (2007-2009) national project designed to research trends, technologies, and promising practices in online ... -
Going Global and the World Social Forum: The Struggle for Justice Beyond the Nation-State
(2011-03-29)In the past ten years beginning with the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle 1999 there has been an intense wave of international activism not unlike the political activism of the late 1960s. Unlike ... -
The Good News from Manitoba: How one provincial government has evolved into a leader in CED policy & programming
(Making Waves, 2004)Garry Loewen explains how Manitoba has evolved into a leader in CED policy and programming. The party in power is one key factor. Another has been the growth over the years of a local "CED community" from which that ... -
The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-10)Trans-disciplinary thinking by evolutionary, social, and ecological economists from the mid-1970s pointed to a new paradigm from which working models are emerging. This paper illustrates their relevance to a context where ... -
Growth and Regional Trade in Africa: Some Empirical Evidence
(2013-07-09)The formation of regional trade agreements among countries at different levels of economic development poses the question of whether the composition of trade, rather than trade itself, is relevant for growth (Splimbergo, ... -
Growth Model for Academic Program Life Cycles: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
(2010-08-04)Academic program life cycle concept states that each program’s life flows through several stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to enrollment ... -
Growth With Equity: Research Reports Best Practice In The USA
(Making Waves, 2000)Excerpts from "From the Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged" (Aspen Institute, 1993) came out about the same time as people in Canada were beginning to organize around ... -
Gurus, Globalization, and Hinduism
(2011-03-29)This talk will focus on the pivotal role that Hindu spiritual leaders (gurus) have play in spreading Hinduism beyond the borders of South Asia by outlining the reasons for their movements overseas and the means by which ...