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Repurposing Content for Online Learning: A Case Study of the Canadian Open University
(2010-06-23)
Following the adoption of new Strategic Plans, Athabasca University has been in the process of transforming its print-based courses to online content delivery for the past five years. This paper aims to report on the recent ...
Collaborating with Unions to Tell the Workers’ Story: the Celanese Edmonton Workers’ Commemoration Project
(2010-06-23)
Over the past 8 years, the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI) has produced videos and transcriptions of over 200 interviews with trade union leaders, activists, and rank-and-filers in an effort to produce a workers' ...
Enhancing Mobile Learning Delivery through Exploration of the Learner Experience
(2010-06-23)
This article focuses on the introduction of wireless mobile technology for the collaborative group activities in problem based learning. In this study students have used Tablet PC to interact with each other and to collate ...
Transboundry Peace Parks: Conservation, Collaboration and National Security
(2010-06-23)
In 2004, the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to a Kenyan activist who is a leader in Africa’s anti-corruption, environmental, and women’s movement. In doing so, the Nobel Committee redefined the concept of peace to emphasize ...
Electricity Market Reforms in Alberta: A Preliminary Assessment
(2010-06-23)
Alberta, Canada attempted to introduce competition into wholesale electricity markets in the late 1990s. In 2000/01 wholesale prices skyrocketed. Price rose as high as prices did in California, at the same time, and stayed ...
Sharing the Journey: Being an Exemplary Role Model
(2010-06-23)
Nurses are constantly being observed. Patients, family members, students, and colleagues watch their actions and interpersonal interactions. Often nurses are role models potentially influencing the behaviors and attitudes ...
Must I Transform to Learn? High-stakes Portfolio Assessment at Athabasca University
(2010-06-23)
In this presentation, we will examine the notion of transformation as it is experienced, or thought to be experienced, during the PLAR process. This discussion brings to the fore one of the tensions in PLAR practice that ...
On the Notion ‘Practical Ethics’
(2010-06-23)
Although I am concerned to develop the idea of practical ethics into a more general theory, I will restrict my focus on the distinction between practical ethics and applied ethics. The first part of the paper summarizes ...
Confessing Anger in the Late Middle Ages
(2010-06-24)
Wrath was one of the Seven Deadly Sins, a popular schema for moral instruction and the interrogation of penitents during confession. The emphasis given to either the social or spiritual aspects of the vice can indicate the ...
Trauma, Memory and Testimony: Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? And the Air India Inquiry
(2010-06-23)
“Trauma, Memory and Testimony: Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?and the Air India Inquiry.” On June 22, 1985 Air India Flight 182 exploded off the coast of Ireland, in what has been called by many “the worst act ...