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Money & Mission: Social Enterprise in Calgary
(2009-11-24)
This power point presentation was made to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). It reports on the results of research into social enterprise development in the City of Calgary, ...
Qualitative Research: What, Why and How (...and Should I Even Go There?)
(2010-06-17)
Contemplating qualitative research can involve much effort and considerable confusion and doubt. More so when the researcher actually has to make decisions: What types of research questions are answerable with qualitative ...
PLAR Practice in Canada AU's Role in Building a National Framework
(2011-03-09)
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) is a process designed to award credits towards a degree or certificate at AU and to open other doors to advancement. Although AU is the acknowledged post secondary practitioner ...
Everything…You Always Wanted to Know About PLAR...and More
(2011-03-09)
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition is a service to AU's adult and mature learners. The usefulness of PLAR as a tool is enhanced by understanding its as a learning activity rather than just an accreditation process. ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Harvestmen of Canada
(2010-06-23)
Harvestmen are the third largest Order of Arachnida. Biological information, other than morphology used for taxonomy, is very limited. Canada has at least 43 species, mostly Euponi (Caddidae 3, Phalangiidae 12, Sclerosomatidae ...
Story Not (Yet) My Own: First World War Correspondence and Prosthetic Memory
(2011-06-29)
In this paper I will explore the role of material culture in the convergence of narrative and memory with specific reference to a family archive of World War I letters and photos. I take as my jumping off point Michele ...
Speeding Return of Student Assignments
(2011-03-09)
Presenting results of recent Mission Critical Research which evaluated five technologies, AU's Dr. Robert Holmberg (Professor, Biology) and Konrad Michalski (Instructional Media Designer) will discuss options for returning ...
"The Arachnids of Alberta: Spiders, Scorpions and Other Things Nice"
(2011-03-29)
This will be an overview of the research that Robert has done on harvestmen, spiders and solifugids, as well as some interesting aspects of the biology of mites and ticks, pseudoscropions and scorpions of Alberta. In other ...