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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Web of Identity: Selfhood and Belonging in Online Learning Networks
(2010-06-17)
In this paper, the reflexive relationship between social interaction and understanding of self in online learning networks is examined. In keeping with constructionism, we acknowledge the significance of social interaction ...
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 ...
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 ...
Studying receptor diffusion by interpreting SPT data with a correlated random walk and a first-passage time algorithm
(2010-09-21)
One of the most powerful and commonly used methods for studying molecular diffusion on the cell membrane is Single Particle Tracking (SPT). During an SPT experiment, the trajectory of a membrane-associated biomolecule, ...
Mobile Learning-Student Perspectives
(2010-11-17)
The use of mobile learning (m-learning) to deliver course content and/or learning activities, is a relatively new instructional design strategy, currently gaining momentum in postsecondary and distance education institutions. ...
Mediating Student-Academic Interaction Through Contact Centres in Distance Education
(2010-11-17)
This study investigates the pedagogical issues that arise from mediating student-academic interaction through a contact centre within university distance education. It is not easy for educational organizations to design ...