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On the Notion ‘Practical Ethics’
(2010-06-23)
Although I am concerned to develop the idea of practical ethics into a more general theory, I will restrict my focus on the distinction between practical ethics and applied ethics. The first part of the paper summarizes ...
Mobile-Literacy: Training Faculty to Use Mobile Devices for Online Learning
(2010-06-23)
Mobile-Literacy: training faculty to use mobile devices for online learning Online learning is a well established pedagogical practice in Canada. Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University, with its reputation in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...