Parents of children with chronic illnesses experiences tremendous burden when caring for their children at home. There are many challenges that are present throughout the course of chronic illnesses. To provide better ...

Nuclear proteins responsible for DNA packaging during the interphase of the cell cycle are highly mobile and their dynamics have a strong influence in the organization of the chromatic structure (DNA and associated proteins). ...

With 2013 designated as the UN Year of Water Cooperation, I feel that the bulk of a Canadians and Water project documented this year would offer the opportunity to release a completed project in 2013. The scope of my ...

This paper reports on two open source survey tools that were used to gather data related to Athabasca University’s (AU) educational development activities within a qualitative evaluation framework. First, a Moodle questionnaire ...

This presentation explores a solution to the problem of L1 and L2 students taking the same course while addressing the specific needs of both. We examine the data from three courses, offered asynchronously online with both ...

Participate in the Wikimania 2012 The International Wikimedia Conference, explore the research and development with Wikimedia applications. Learn more about what Wikimedia community had tried and where they are going, ...

Security within the cloud is of paramount importance as the interest and indeed utilization of cloud computing increase. Multitenancy in particular introduces unique security risks to cloud computing as a result of more ...

Introduction: Canada’s first fully online doctoral program is now in its fifth year of teaching and implementation at Athabasca University and the first doctoral students have graduated. This program comprises four content ...

The growth of mobile technologies and devices has penetrated the world substantially over the last 5 years, and a large percentage of these users are young users. This introduces profound changes to traditional teaching ...

Course-offering determination (COD) for educational programs is the complex task of deciding what subset of courses an academic department or program should offer in a given academic term or semester. In this paper, we ...