Research: Recent submissions
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Credit Unions and the Rural Social Economy
(2010-06-04)This research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) explored the unique role of credit unions related to financing the social economy and contributing to rural revitalization. Several case ... -
BALTA Project D10 – Advancing the Social Economy Through Networks and Collaboration
(2010-08-20)This project proposal/plan outlines research of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance that explores researcher-practioner networks and other networks as appropriate in order to identify best practice models, ... -
BALTA Project D7 – Land Tenure and the Social Economy: Phase 2
(2010-08-20)This project proposal/plan outlines planned research of the BC-Alberta Social economy Research Alliance that builds on the results of earlier research (Project D3) on land tenure and land trusts. The goal of the research ... -
Money & Mission: Social Enterprise in Calgary
(2009-11-24)This power point presentation was made to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). It reports on the results of research into social enterprise development in the City of Calgary, ... -
BALTA Project A11 - Survival rates of co-ops in BC and Alberta
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project is exploring factors impacting on the survival of recently incorporated co-operatives in Alberta ... -
Role of Faith Based Organizations in the Social Economy: Phase II - The Role of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonite Community
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This is a second phase of research, following up on BALTA Project A4 completed in 2009. It continues the ... -
Approaches to Financially Sustainable Provision of Affordable Housing by Not-for-Profit Organizations and Co-operatives: Perspectives from Canada, the USA, and Europe
(2010-08-13)This paper arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits and ... -
Financial Sustainability in the Not-for-Profit Housing Sector – Literature Review
(2010-08-13)This literature review arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits ... -
Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable Management of Housing by Not-for-profit and Co-operative Organizations in Response to Decreasing Government Funding Programs
(2010-08-13)This report arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits and ... -
BALTA Project A9 - Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable management of housing by not-for-profits and co-ops with minimal to no government support.
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project explores models of successful financing and management of non-profit housing in Alberta and ... -
BALTA Project A8 - Creating a Database of Social Enterprise Capital Providers in BC and Alberta
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project involved surveying the range of capital providers for social enterprise financing in the two ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training
(2010-08-11)The need for studies on learning via mobile device, particularly how workplace and language training might be conducted, grows in importance as more and more people become mobile device users.The Athabasca University (AU) ... -
Attend the Hope or Next Hope Conference
(2010-08-11)The main visual theme of the conference is visions of the future from the past, so things that reference The World’s Fairs, The Jetsons, flying cars, DaVinci, Asimov, and so forth would be very appropriate. However, projects ... -
A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping & Multi-Object Oriented Augmented Reality for Location-based Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2010-08-11)1) A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping This paper presents a collaborative mobile learning system: Mobile Virtual Campus (MVC) powered by the location-based dynamic grouping ... -
What might cause a benevolent government to be corrupt when agents are honest? An Insight with triadic relationships
(2010-08-11)Note: In order to make my points clear, I am providing an executive summary rather than an abstract. Executive Summary The extant literature that seeks to explain corruption in government bureaucracies usually refers ... -
Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours
(2010-08-11)Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours Cheryl Kiera and Ambrose Leungb Athabasca University Mount Royal University This study explored the relationships between authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive ... -
A Flexible Mechanism for Providing Adaptivity Based on Learning Styles in Learning Management
(2010-08-11)While today’s learning management systems (LMSs) provide lot of support for teachers to assist them in holding online courses, they typically do not consider students’ individual differences in the composition and structure ... -
The Influence of Network Convergence on VoIP
(2010-08-11)Voice traffic operating within a shared packetized data network must meet the stringent expectations set forth by its circuit switched predecessor. Increases in network throughput, decreases in end-to-end latency, jitter ... -
Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach
(2010-08-10)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project explores the potential impact of a participatory action research process using an environmental ... -
Information Literacy: Case Studies and Practices
(2010-08-04)Athabasca University Library, Red Deer College Library, and the University of Alberta Libraries have developed and implemented collaborative curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction. Participants will learn ...