Research: Recent submissions
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Defining the Vision for the Next 100 Years
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1. Design, technology choices and interactive processes in an online doctoral program (poster
(2011-03-30)1. (Poster) Athabasca University’s first fully online doctoral program is now in its third year of teaching and implementation. This program, initially in Distance Education, involves four content courses and two research ... -
AUGO II: A comprehensive subauroral zone observatory
(2011-03-30)A new geophysical observatory dedicated to the study of the auroral borealis will be built 25 km southwest of the town of Athabasca, in Alberta, Canada. It is anticipated to see first light in the winter of 2010/2011 and ... -
Student Publications at Athabasca University
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13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference
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Mobile Self Efficacy in Canadian Nursing Education Programs
(2011-03-30)The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what are the implications for their teaching and learning in practice ... -
Modeling Service Choreographies with Rule-enhanced Business Processes
(2011-03-30)The research community has so far mainly focused on the problem of modeling of service orchestrations in the domain of service composition, while modeling of service choreographies has attracted less attention. The following ... -
Multipoint Observations of the Large Substorm Associated with the Galaxy 15 Anomaly
(2011-03-30)On April 5, 2010 around 09 UT, the NOAA Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) observed a large reconfiguration of the magnetospheric magnetic field in the midnight to dawn local time sector. Specifically, ... -
CAMEG – A Multi-Agent Based Context-Aware Mobile Educational Game for On-the-Job Training
(2011-03-30)This presentation will report the research findings of the Alberta-North/Athabasca University research project, entitled “Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal and Low-Literacy Learners in Northern Communities”. ... -
Demography, Diet and Range Size in a Population of Black-handed Spider Monkey's
(2011-03-30)#1 Studies of wild Ateles geoffroyi yucatensis have occurred, or are ongoing in Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, but no sites have been established in Belize. Across study sites, group composition, average sub-group ... -
Sea Songs from Two Oceans: A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Songs from the Coasts of Yorkshire and British Columbia
(2011-03-30)Yorkshire folksong collector Frank Kidson did most of his fieldwork during the last two decades of the Victorian era. The fruits of his labours during the 1880s found expression in his pioneering collection Traditional ... -
A New Era in Distance Education
(2011-03-30)2) A New Era in Distance Education Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes, Associate Professor of Distance Education at AU, is co-editor with Dr. D. Randy Garrison of the University of Calgary, of a new book, An Introduction to ... -
2010 American Library Association Annual Conference
(2011-03-30)ALA's annual conference provides opportunities to attend over 300 educational programs on a variety of hot topics, provides networking opportunities through committee meetings and events, and allows librarians to keep up ... -
Warhol Wild: Applied Colour Theory Course
(2011-03-30)The Pop Art movement and the iconic themes of Andy Warhol have opened up many doors to the joyous notions of colour and have allowed it to move beyond the boundaries of tradition. The wild experiments of the colour field ... -
The Sherbrooke School of Comparative Canadian Literature
(2011-03-30)In the 1970s some academics and creative writers at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec developed a new approach to the study of Canadian literature in both English and French which went on to have a profound influence ... -
We Know More Than You Think! What do we know about the student experience? What draws students to Athabasca University?
(2011-03-30)Dr. Nancy Parker, Director, Institutional Studies, will present key trends for Athabasca University learners and support services. Discussion will include benchmarking surveys, highlighting data obtained from a number of ... -
"Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): Where are they now?"
(2011-03-30)1. How narcissism has been conceptualized throughout our recorded history, 2. When and why the narcissistic shift in our society began, 3. Why the DSM-5 study group has eliminated NPD from its official list of personality ... -
Am I Allowed to Make It Up? The Art of Writing Historical Novels
(2011-03-30)As a younger writer, I attempted to write an historical novel without really knowing what I was getting into. Almost five years later, it was published under the title "Three Day Road". I look forward to talking about ... -
All for One-One for All - Will the Real Musketeer "Alexandre Dumas" Please Stand Up
(2011-03-30)Alexandre Dumas père is one of the most prolific and popular French writers of all times; he wrote over 1,200 volumes comprising of 250 plays, novels and travelogues, and was among the first writers in France to use the ... -
Is Canada the Monkey or the Organ Grinder When it Comes to Proposed Copyright Legislation?
(2011-03-30)Twenty years ago copyright was an issue that attracted the attention of few people. In the digital age it has become a political hot potato, particularly in Canada. Many contend that the principle of fair dealing for ...