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1) Distance Education MBA Project Management Program: A Case Study and 2) Advice for New Engineering Faculty: Insights Gained from Faculty Development Programs
(2010-06-22)
1) With its roots in systems engineering, project management is a relatively new discipline taught in the fields of Engineering, Business, Information Technology/ Management Information Systems, Computing Sciences, and ...
Writing the Chinese Labor: Changes and Continuities in Labor Historiography
(2010-06-22)
In the 1980s, most historical writings in China begun to take a new direction owing to domestic changes and outside influence. In comparison with other topics, however, studies of the pre-1949 Chinese labor seem to remain ...
Democracy and Ethics, Governance, and Corruption Perception in Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis”
(2010-06-23)
This paper explores the relationship between democracy and corruption. Using data on African countries, I find the relationships between democracy and corruption measures to be statistically significant and nonlinear in ...
Online Graduate Study Health Care Learners' Perceptions of Instructional Immediacy
(2010-06-23)
Instructional immediacy is an established communication strategy that teachers can implement to create engaging learning environments. Yet, little is known about experiences distance education learners in graduate study ...
An Examination of the Use of Image in Traditional Knowledge Research with Northwestern Canadian First Nations”
(2010-06-23)
Recording of images and words has been integral to the documentation of the knowledge and wisdom of traditional land-based lifeways. Although recording of film images and video has been widely employed in traditional ...
1) Singing the Unspeakable: from ‘Sheath and Knife’ to ‘O Bondage, Up Yours! and 2) Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folksong Revival, 1889-1904
(2010-06-23)
1) In their desire to shock their listeners, the British punk bands of the mid-late 1970s delighted in performing lyrics that extolled mob violence and sexual deviance. The Sex Pistols, the Clash, X-Ray Spex and Wire (among ...
Remembering our Future: A Practitioner’s Perspective on the ‘Crisis’ in Cultural Studies”
(2010-06-23)
I teach in something called an open university. Probably this would not be possible were it not for the ground-breaking work of the early practitioners of British Cultural Studies. From its inception, cultural studies was ...
Expanding Role for a Distance Education Lab Management System: Athabasca University Experience with Reagents Database
(2010-06-23)
Ongoing research and development of a distance education lab management system has revealed new and unexpected potential. After teaching science labs in a print based mode for the past thirty plus years, the transition ...
The Relevance of Utopia in a Globalized World”
(2010-06-23)
J.M.G Le Clézio's latest novel "Ourania" (2006) ends with an affirmation by the narrator that Ourania (his imaginary utopian land) really existed and that his certainty comes from having seen the community of Campos, a ...
Making Content Connections: issues in the use of Print Versus Digital Course Content
(2010-06-23)
Recent program changes in an online graduate program created questions regarding the delivery of materials in distance education programs. One hundred and thirty-seven students responded to a survey regarding the difference ...