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    • Connecting Learners in Self-Paced Undergraduate Study: Practitioner Cases 

      Thiessen, Janice K. (2014-01-16)
      Enabling students to take responsibility for and make choices about aspects of their learning is an important affordance of distance education. Distance learners determine the time and place for their studies—those engaged ...
    • Testing under Pressure 

      Loken, Geoff (2014-01-16)
      “For most of us, testing shares more in common with emergency response than with airplane maintenance. In a perfect world we’d check the torque on every bolt, and leave the runway with 100% certainty every flight. Most ...
    • A Framework for Enabling Incidental Learning on the Web 

      Wang, Hongxue (Harris) (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 ...
    • Location-Based Learning Management System for Adaptive Mobile Learning 

      Tan, Qing (2014-01-16)
      E-learning and distance learning are all forms of learning that take place outside of a traditional learning environment and can be alternatives for learners who are not able to study in a traditional environment for various ...
    • Subaltern Approach and the “Sense” of History in Global Studies 

      Shrivastava, Meenal (2014-01-16)
      In the 1980s, the scope of enquiry of Subaltern Studies was applied as a corrective to the dominant Eurocentric history writing, particularly in the South Asian postcolonial historiography. In its early commitment to social ...
    • Program Experiences of Men Completing the Reaching for a Good Life Program 

      Nielsen, Karen (2014-01-16)
      This presentation will report the findings of a qualitative investigation into the experiences of thirty-one men completing the Reaching for a Good Life program as well as post-group quantitative measures of executive ...
    • The utility of portable optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) readers in providing temporal contexts in clastic depositional systems: opportunities in geomorphology 

      Munyikwa, Ken (2014-01-16)
      The recent development ofa functional portable optically stimulated luminescence (POSL) readers has ushered in new opportunities in geomorphology. Although POSL readers do not necessarily provide absolute ages as in regular ...
    • Be Like Winifred: Transferring Images of Colonial Africa to the South Pacific 

      Ellerman, Evelyn (2014-01-16)
      European colonial history is filled with examples of attempts to transfer cultural values, attitudes and beliefs from the metropolis to the colonies. European publishers at first sent textbooks to the colonies without ...
    • An Analysis of Client Realism, Virtue Ethics and Comprehensive Justice 

      Dewhurst, Dale (2014-01-16)
      In this paper I assert that at the foundations of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Comprehensive Justice Movement (Comprehensive Law Movement / Non-Adversarial Justice) lies in the interplay between client realism and the ...
    • Counsellor and Practicum Supervisor Critical Incidents in the Development of Multicultural and Social Justice Competency 

      Collins, Sandra (2014-01-16)
      In many countries, counselling psychology has increasingly attended to the diverse needs of clients within multicultural societies. In North America, emphasis has been placed on nondominant populations, whose experiences ...
    • Two School-Based Mental Health Services: One Systemic Approach 

      Chang, Jeff (2014-01-16)
      This presentation focuses on the development, operation, and evolution of two school-based, mental health consultation services operating in private and charter schools in Calgary, AB, Canada. First, I describe the ...
    • Matroreform: Evolving to a “New” Motherhood” 

      Wong-Wylie, Gina (2014-01-16)
      “New” motherhood is initiated through everyday maternal practices and evolves motherhood at its most fundamental level. In a process called matroreform, women unwittingly and/or intentionally choose what they do and do not ...
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      Ross, Lynda (2014-01-16)
      Chair the Section on Women and Psychology (SWAP) annual business meeting, organize and attend the (SWAP) Executive dinner, organize and Chair the (SWAP) Executive Business breakfast meeting at the 74th Annual Convention ...
    • Kaska Elders’ Perception of Environmental Change 

      Johnson, Leslie (2014-01-16)
      Vegetation change can be driven by recurrent disturbances, such as wild fire, landslips and avalanches, which are recognized by Kaska. Other changes may be driven by climatic change and shifts in weather extremes. All ...
    • The Platonic and Aristotelian Mimetic Paradigms In Light of Gans and Heidegger 

      Foshay, Raphael (2014-01-16)
      There is an inherent tension in the imaginal scene of representation between its mediating, violence-diffusing role and its sublimatory rendering of alternative satisfaction. A clearer understanding of the way this is ...
    • Complexity, Healthcare Systems and the Aporias of Healthcare Reform 

      Crawford, Mark (2014-01-16)
      Paradoxically, “complexity” in health care systems has spurred both an application of complexity theory to health care organizations and a greater assertion of health care’s essentially political nature. This “increasingly ...
    • Leading Pedagogical Change 

      Cleveland-Innes, Martha (2014-01-16)
      According to Keller (2008), changes in many things including technology “constitutes [sic] the most consequential set of changes in society since the late nineteenth century, when the nation went from a largely domestic, ...
    • ED.D. Orientation Week 

      MacIsaac, Peggy Lynn (2013-09-03)
      Orientation Week for the Doctorate of Education in Distance Education students is a workshop focusing on instruction, distance education theory, program planning, discussions with faculty and colleagues, community-building ...
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      Shouldice, Michael (2013-07-10)
      Conference description The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers whose interests in the digital economy are positioned at the intersection of social media and the engaged university. Social media ...
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      Kariel, Doug (2013-07-10)
      CLA is very excited to launch the program for the 68th CLA National Conference and Trade Show. Outstanding sessions, networking opportunities and more await the attendees in Winnipeg. We look forward to welcoming you. ...


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