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Exploring the Usability of Online Courses: The Student Experience
(2013-07-09)
Online education is becoming a more feasible option for students as an increasing number of courses are being offered by distance through the Internet. Today, students and teachers often interact entirely in virtual learning ...
Philosophical Critique and Perceived Practical Irrelevance
(2013-07-09)
In a fascinating paper, “Ask the Philosopher,” Dimitrios Dentsoras shows how philosophers were once integrally engaged in society as agents of practical advice on how to govern and indeed on how to live. Over the centuries, ...
Listening with mobile devices: An ecological approach to context-embedded learning
(2013-07-09)
This presentation discusses a design-based research (DBR) study into effective design for teaching listening in the real world using mobile devices. An emergent theory of learning, ecological constructivism (EC), was chosen ...
World and Nation in Humanitarian Writing
(2013-07-09)
In spite of the imperialist spectre that continues to haunt the environment of cosmopolitanism, the desire to locate a “genuine” strand of human interconnection beyond neo-liberal defenses of globalization and official ...
A Pastoral or Academic approach to wrath in Thomas of Ireland’s dictionary of quotations, the Manipulus florum (1306)?
(2013-07-09)
This paper compares the discussion of anger in Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum (1306) with that found in important reference works for preachers from about the same period. Richard and Mary Rouse’s major study of the ...
Growth and Regional Trade in Africa: Some Empirical Evidence
(2013-07-09)
The formation of regional trade agreements among countries at different levels of economic development poses the question of whether the composition of trade, rather than trade itself, is relevant for growth (Splimbergo, ...
Sharpest Knives in the Drawer: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
(2013-07-09)
The infusion of the petroleum industry into the social and cultural imaginary goes deep in Alberta, where the oil economy and provincial governments have together shaped discourses of prosperity, identity and citizenship ...
Information Access, Transparency, and Good Governance: the Alberta record
(2013-07-09)
Access to information is recognized worldwide as a crucial component of a democratic state because transparency helps to expose corruption, ensures due process in law, and encourages the citizen engagement that is central ...
Making Inequality Visible in Management Education, the Academy and the Global Workplace
(2013-07-09)
Neoliberalism
The neoliberal argument is essentially an economic and political philosophy advocating free markets, deregulation, privatization of public assets, more unencumbered free trade, and less government “interference” ...
Telling Alberta Workers' Story
(2013-07-09)
Alvin Finkel, "Telling Alberta Workers' Story": This paper will deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the Alberta Labour History Institute's efforts to work closely with the union movement in "Project 2012" to tell the ...