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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 ...
Hope in Day to Day Living of Residents in Long-term Care
(2013-03-07)
A project designed to focus on hope for residents was implemented in an ongoing support group in a long-term care facility in Western Canada. Because seniors frequently enter a care center when there has been a decline in ...
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 ...
Never too Old for Hope: A Group Education Initiative in Long-term Care
(2014-02-06)
This presentation provides an overview of a project in which an innovative curriculum designed to foster hope and make hope more visible in long-term care was implemented. An outline of the curriculum and its implementation ...
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 ...
A Framework for Enabling Incidental Learning on the Web
(2014-01-16)
Incidental learning is learning something without intent, which usually happens at the time that is not dedicated to learn that thing. Examples of such time include work, game play and activities for leisure. In today’s ...
Chunking and Extracting Text Content for Mobile Learning: A Query-focused Summarizer Based on Relevance Language Model
(2013-03-05)
Millions of text contents and multimedia published on the Web have potential to be shared as the learning contents. However, mobile learners often feel it difficult to extract useful contents for learning. Manually creating ...
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 ...
Using Virtual Programming Lab for Web-based Distance Education
(2012-11-15)
In Web-based distance education, our experience has shown that some courses are more challenging than others for both students and instructors when offered at a distance. Among those challenges, providing students with ...
An Intelligent System for Generating and Managing FAQs in Online Education
(2010-06-23)
With the development of the Web, online course delivery is gaining its popularity everyday. But no matter how courses delivered, there is one thing that never changes in education. For students, they will have to get all ...