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Farmers Markets, Local Food Systems and the Social Economy: A Thematic Literature Review
(2011-03-01)
Alternative food systems, often drawing heavily on local and ‘embedded’ markets, have emerged as a response to the dissipating connection between food systems and ecological systems brought about by the globalization trend. ...
Learning Support for Calculus
(2011-03-09)
Centre for Learning Design & Development (CLDD) Director Dr. Cindy Ives, Centre for Science Math Academic Coordinator Dr. Maria Torres, along with (CLDD) Instructional Media Analysts Sandra Law and Hongxin Yan will report ...
Role of the Online Learner: A Comprehensive Model Put Forward
(2011-03-09)
Dr. Federico Borges, Professor of English at UOC, and Visiting Researcher at AU, has focused his research on the online learner as a key—and at times disregarded—element in e-learning. Dr. Borges will explain The Role of ...
Between the Auden Generation and the New Apocalypse: Politics & Poetry Networks in the 1930s and 40s
(2011-03-09)
From his Vancouver location, Dr. James Gifford, AU Tutor and Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson university, will retrace anarchist and socialist English poetry networks competing in the 1930s and 1940s in continental ...
"The Alberta Disadvantage: Toxic Emissions, Shoddy Science and Muzzled Voices in Alberta's Industrial Heartland"
(2011-03-29)
Alberta is reaping profits from its gas fields and tar sands but at what price to public health and the environment? Drive just forty-five minutes northeast of Edmonton and you enter the Alberta Industrial Heartland. ...
Environment, Women and Politics-perspectives on Canadian Environmentalism
(2011-03-29)
Elizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and leader of the Green Part of Canada. Elizabeth became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s. She is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and ...
Back Roads
(2011-03-29)
Athabasca University and NeWest Press are hosting Ted Ferguson, national journalist and author of the newly released autobiographical adventure, Back Roads, set in the woods somewhere near Athabasca. Hear about the Ferguson ...
The Changing North American Family.
(2011-03-29)
There is a popular belief that changes in the family over the past century (away from the traditional form of two biological parents with father as breadwinner and mother as homemaker) are responsible for declines in moral ...
Information Needs of Men and Their Partners about Prostate Surgery
(2011-03-29)
Prostate cancer is the single greatest cancer threat facing Canadian men, affecting one in eight men with a mortality rate of one in 27. Over 22,300 Canadian men were newly diagnosed in 2007, compared with 12,000 newly ...
Making Equitable Education in Rural China through Distance Education
(2011-03-29)
China has made great strides toward universalizing basic education in rural areas over the past two decades, yet wide urban-rural and East-West disparities in schooling access and quality not only remain, but are growing. ...