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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, ...
Models for Strategy Choice in Random or Potentially Deceptive Environments
(2010-07-14)
Two simulation models are presented illustrative of decision and behavioural choice issues for complex adaptive systems involving cognitive agents. The first illustrates the value of managed instability for complex systems. ...
Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours
(2010-08-11)
Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours
Cheryl Kiera and Ambrose Leungb
Athabasca University
Mount Royal University
This study explored the relationships between authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive ...
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 ...
Hope and Aging: Hermeneutic Photography as Qualitative Evidence
(2010-06-23)
AIMS:
Aging successfully is a topic that has been targeted in recent years. Given the increased life expectancies developing countries, and the graying of the population, increased efforts are being directed at what it ...
Attended
(2010-06-23)
This training opportunity is organized through COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) and Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), which provides access to Statistics Canada resources ...
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 ...
Attended Strategic Enrollment Management Conference
(2010-06-23)
I will be attending the conference and participating in a variety of sessions and workshops related to SEM, as well as networking with colleagues during allotted times to gain insight into their related experiences and ...
Building an Effective Mobile-Friendly Digital Library to Support Mobile Learners: A Case Study of the Athabasca University M-Library Project
(2010-06-23)
With the rapid evolution of technology today, distance education is about to shift to Mobile learning where e-learning materials are being delivered through mobile devices. Wireless and mobile technology provides flexibility: ...