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1st International Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Social Learning - TESL2011
(2011-11-18)
This paper presents an ongoing project that builds engaging, affectionate, and effective pedagogical agents in 3D virtual worlds for learning. Utilizing the theory of Transformed Social Interaction (TSI), we design pedagogical ...
Maximizing Library Online Presence while Minimizing Maintenance
(2011-06-29)
This paper presents challenges and opportunities for academic libraries to increase their online presence in learning management systems (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University Library will highlight the ...
A Place called Home: The Social and Cultural Context of Health
(2011-06-29)
Background
Arts in health-care is an emerging movement that links the expressive arts with the healing arts and brings these into the mainstream of traditional health-care to promote well-being. Dr. Gene Cohen, who was ...
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)
ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ...
Cloud Computing-based IT Solutions For Organizations with Multiregional Branch Offices
(2011-05-05)
One of the most significant phenomena of the new century is globalization. As business goes global, multiregional branch offices are needed and networked computing and information services must then be established for those ...
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 ...
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 ...
Demography, Diet and Range Size in a Population of Black-handed Spider Monkey's
(2011-03-30)
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...