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Implementing Mobile Learning Across Cultures Globally: Opportunities and Challenges” and to present a poster entitled, "Athabasca University Mobile Learning: Delivering French Training Using Mobile Devices
(2011-11-02)
Because of the rapid growth in the use of mobile technology globally, there is the potential to reach learners around the world to help them become more educated and to improve the quality of life. Mobile technology allows ...
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 ...
Analyzing the Normative Nature of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
(2011-11-02)
Recent writings have debated TJ’s normative nature. Some proffer TJ as the potentially dominant legal paradigm, capable of reinventing law and justice systems at their core. Critics assert that TJ: violates zealous ...
Study of mobile collaborative information system using distributed database architecture
(2011-11-02)
This paper examines the feasibility of communal information sharing between mobile devices using a distributed architecture for the underlying database topology, through research aimed at satisfying two primary objectives: ...
Effective SQL Injection Attack Reconstruction Using Network Recording
(2011-11-18)
Utilizing the location-awareness of mobile devices in developing innovative mobile application system has attracted much attention of academic researchers and commercial application developers. Location-based mobile learning ...
Road to Mobile Learning
(2012-01-24)
To meet the needs of students, and fulfill Athabasca University’s mission to remove barriers to learning, Athabasca University (AU) Library has initiated a number of mobile learning projects. The poster “Road to Mobile ...
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 ...
Athabasca University Mobile Learning: Delivering French Training Using Mobile Devices (Poster)
(2012-01-24)
The poster illustrates how iPhone technology can be used to deliver French language training and engage students with interactive learning content. Five interactive lessons teaching basic French grammar and vocabulary ...
CASE: Annual Conference for Publications Professionals: New Media, Timeless Qualities
(2011-12-15)
The word "publications" is rapidly being redefined. What once meant putting ink on paper and distributing copies through the mail has come to describe the dissemination of information and ideas in many forms, through many ...
Avatars and Open Courseware in Distance Education Freshman Physics
(2012-04-04)
Athabasca University has engaged thousands of students in for-credit, non-calculus freshman physics over the past 15 years, a success in part attributable to innovative use of home laboratory technology. In now offering ...