Research: Recent submissions
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Rapid Instructional Design: Increasing Educator Capacity for Developing E-learning Solutions
(2010-08-04)Our paper presents the initial plan and theoretical groundwork for the rapid development of elearning solutions using Web 2.0 applications and services. The development of this model has been a collaborative venture and ... -
Converting Print-Based Course Materials for Online Delivery
(2010-08-04)As part of an ongoing effort to move from print-based, distance-delivered course materials to online delivery, Athabasca University is undertaking to convert files stored in an SGML-based print publishing system to XHTML-based ... -
Growth Model for Academic Program Life Cycles: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
(2010-08-04)Academic program life cycle concept states that each program’s life flows through several stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to enrollment ... -
Spiraling Out of Darkness: Mothering and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV
(2010-08-04)1. "Spiraling Out of Darkness: ‘Mothering’ and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV" (Presenters: Gina Wong-Wylie & José Pruden) Abstract: An artful process of revealing narratives and photographic images was central in the ... -
Female Viewers’ Central and Peripheral Processing or Commercial TV Ads and Movies and Corresponding Changes in their Body Esteem
(2010-08-04)Two experiments examined the complex and elusive process by which women experience changes in their body esteem while paying attention to commercial media messages featuring competing messages that invite them to value ... -
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – Enclosing the Internet?
(2010-08-04)This paper examines the ongoing negotiation process over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement from a Canadian perspective. ACTA, in brief, would represent a globalized version of the U.S. Digital Management Copyright ... -
An Exploration of the Experience of Compassion Fatigue in Clinical Oncology Nurses" and The Role of Simple Gesture in Exemplary Palliative Nursing Care
(2010-08-04)Abstract #1 Introduction Oncology nurses are at risk for compassion fatigue (CF). Bush (2009) defines CF as an emotional state with negative psychological and physical consequences that emanate from caregiving to people ... -
Domestic citizenship and Disability in Saskatchewan in the 1930's
(2010-08-04)This paper is based on a diary written from 1937 to 1942 by my great aunt, Hilda Butcher, a white upper middle class English immigrant to Canada. Impaired by achondroplasia (“dwarfism”), Hilda used a wheelchair for the ... -
BALTA Project A8 - Creating a Database of Social Enterprise Capital Providers in BC and Alberta
(2010-07-31)This proposal/plan describes a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) focusing on gathering data and creating a database of capital providers for social enterprises in the provinces of ... -
BALTA Project A7 - Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach
(2010-07-31)This proposal/plan describes a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) focusing on co-operative housing. The project involved a team of Environmental Design students at the University ... -
SERC 1 WorkPlan – 2010-2011
(2010-07-26)This is the annual research program plan of Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 1 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). SERC 1's mandate includes both affordable housing and human/social services. ... -
Project D-10 Overview: Advancing the Social Economy through Networks and Collaboration
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA Project D10, which explored the literature and a number of case studies to identify possible network models ... -
BALTA Legacy Social Economy Course Development: An exploration of needs, capacity and ideas
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on an initiative to explore interest and support for a BALTA linked project to develop a university level course ... -
BALTA Social Economy Course Development Project
(2009-11-25)This report to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on an initiative to explore interest and support for a BALTA linked project to develop a university level course on the ... -
Land Tenure and the Social Economy
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA Project D3, which explored a range of land tenure and land trusts issues and models. It also explains the ... -
Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable Management of Housing by Not-for-profit and Co-operative Organizations in Response to Decreasing Government Funding Programs
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA Project A9, which looked at successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy ... -
Fraser Valley Social Economy: Affordable Housing Project
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA Project A6, which looked at affordsble housing provision through social economy organizations in the Upper ... -
Building Capital, Building Community: A Comparative analysis of access to capital for social enterprises and nonprofits in Ontario and Quebec
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on comparative research looking at the policy and financial environment for social enterprises and non-profits ... -
Collaboration, Innovation & Organizational Learning: An Exploration of Non-profit Clusters and Shared Spaces
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of a BALTA research project (D4) that explored the benefits of social enterprise and non-profit ... -
Coop Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach: Research Project Overview
(2009-11-25)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of a BALTA action research project (A7) linked to a spatial design research approach working with a ...