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What Does Formal Online Debating Bring to Graduate Education?
(2010-07-14)Debating is a formal process of argument that has a long tradition of application in education. Educators value it as a strategy for promoting the development of skills associated with influencing others using logic, facts, ... -
Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice
(2010-07-14)Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice It has been suggested that over the next eighteen months CASAE members review the 30 years of CASAE existence and as part of that ... -
Economic and Social Satisfaction in Marketing Channels: The Impact of Influence Strategies in an African County
(2010-07-14)This article seeks, among others, to empirically validate the theory proposed by Geyskens et al. (1999) on the impact of influence strategies on economic and social satisfaction in the context of an African Country. New ... -
Preparing Effective Codes of Ethics in Aboriginal Agency
(2010-07-14)An Aboriginal agency that: (a) conducts business in a cross-cultural setting; (b) employs Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal employees; (c) wants to conduct its operations in keeping with Aboriginal protocols; may wish ... -
The Power of Virtual Professional Networking
(2010-07-14)Research in the business community indicates that virtual professional networks are used to keep internal staff and remote employees connected, to connect with potential clients, and to showcase the skills of the business. ... -
Concretizing Asian Canadian Theatre
(2010-07-14)Founded in Edmonton in 1989 as a community-action collective company, Concrete Theatre has prioritized in its mandate a focus on cultural diversity. For the past twenty years, it has created workshops for schools and ... -
Workplaces of Teleworkers
(2010-07-14)Teleworking has become quite popular in developed countries in recent years, but its growth has stabilized. A comfortable work environment at home is often cited as one key advantage of teleworking from home. Little ... -
The Philosophical Canon: East and West
(2010-07-14)This paper will examine the professional bias present in our philosophy departments against identifying Eastern traditions, such as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, as genuine philosophies that have a rightful place in ... -
Towards a Real Virtual Classroom
(2010-07-14)Distance education is well regarded as a better way to bring education to those who are unable to attend classes at traditional schools and universities. In recent years, new Web technologies and systems such as Ajax, RSS, ... -
The New Generation of Chinese Women in the Age of Internet
(2010-07-14)Since internet was introduced into China in 1995, it has developed rapidly. Along with the swift increase of internet users, we have witnessed the narrowing-down gender gap in internet usage. All major websites in China ... -
Motivation to Move-Nurse Practitioners and Physical Activity Counseling and Canadian Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction
(2010-07-14)POSTER #1: Motivation to Move - Nurse Practitioners and Physical Activity Counseling Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore Canadian NPs perceived competence and importance pertaining to counseling/prescribing ... -
Thinking About Birds, Thinking With Birds-Perspectives from Northwest North America
(2010-07-14)Birds are salient actors in human environments around the world, and are carriers of meaning, their actions invested with a range of significance. This paper will present thoughts on the significance of birds in several ... -
The Business of Professional Psychology: Ideas for Building a Successful Private Practice and Psychoanalytic Art Therapy: A Personal History
(2010-07-14)Presentation #1: "The Business of Professional Psychology: Ideas for Building a Successful Private Practice" There have been a number of “how to start a private practice” workshops offered in the past several years. ... -
Games for Health: Dreams and Video Game Play and Canadian Game Studies Association: Dreams and Video Game Play
(2010-07-14)In a series of studies Gackenbach and colleagues have been investigating the relationship between video game play and dreams. It is increasingly apparent that nighttime dreams are crucial to memory consolidation, information ... -
Explosive than any Terrorist’s time Bomb: the RCSW, Then and Now
(2010-07-14)The Report of the RCSW has been a landmark public document, ‘the public face of liberal feminism,’ a foundational document in the inception of Women’s Studies and the progenitor for the emergence of Women and Politics as ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training: The Athabasca University Mobile Workplace
(2010-07-14)Abstract of Workshop #2: Empowering Learners with Mobile Learning Anytime and anywhere learning is here with mobile learning. The use of mobile technologies will allow adult learners to access learning materials and ... -
BALTA Research Program - 2006-2011
(2010-07-14)This two page information sheet provides an overview of BALTA's research program anad a list of BALTA research projects. -
Whole-School Mental Health Programming: Concentric Collaborative Conversations
(2010-07-14)This workshop will describe the development and operation of the Wellness Empowerment Program (WEP), and a mental health capacity building project, funded by Alberta Health Services, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and operating ... -
Automatic Discovery of Network Applications: A hybrid Approach
(2010-07-14)Automatic discovery of network applications is a very challenging task which has received a lot of attentions due to its importance in many areas such as network security, QoS provisioning, and network management. In this ... -
Social Economy? Solidarity Economy? Exploring the Implications of Conceptual Nuance for Acting in a Volatile World
(Published as "Social economy and solidarity economy: Transformative concepts for unprecedented times" in Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson and Julie Matthaei (Eds.). Solidarity economy: building alternatives for people and planet. Changemaker Publications, Chicago., 2008)This paper suggests that the solidarity economy as a conceptual framework in progress may have significant theoretical and strategic implications for actors in the social economy. The distinct boundaries most social economy ...