Internal Research Funding: Recent submissions
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Exploring the Usability of Online Courses: The Student Experience
(2013-07-09)Online education is becoming a more feasible option for students as an increasing number of courses are being offered by distance through the Internet. Today, students and teachers often interact entirely in virtual learning ... -
Listening with mobile devices: An ecological approach to context-embedded learning
(2013-07-09)This presentation discusses a design-based research (DBR) study into effective design for teaching listening in the real world using mobile devices. An emergent theory of learning, ecological constructivism (EC), was chosen ... -
Telling Alberta Workers' Story
(2013-07-09)Alvin Finkel, "Telling Alberta Workers' Story": This paper will deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the Alberta Labour History Institute's efforts to work closely with the union movement in "Project 2012" to tell the ... -
Pop culture in the classroom: Inspiring students to take action against intimate partner violence
(2013-07-09)Working with families is fraught with complexity, including dealing with issues such as intimate partner violence. Faculty teaching within a family-newborn course with undergraduate nursing students sought innovative ... -
World and Nation in Humanitarian Writing
(2013-07-09)In spite of the imperialist spectre that continues to haunt the environment of cosmopolitanism, the desire to locate a “genuine” strand of human interconnection beyond neo-liberal defenses of globalization and official ... -
The iPad and Early Childhood Intervention
(2013-07-09)This paper presentation focuses on an exploratory study conducted with preschool children ages 3 to 5 with disabilities ranging from mild to severe, and the use of the iPad for learning. Preschool children and their ... -
A Pastoral or Academic approach to wrath in Thomas of Ireland’s dictionary of quotations, the Manipulus florum (1306)?
(2013-07-09)This paper compares the discussion of anger in Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum (1306) with that found in important reference works for preachers from about the same period. Richard and Mary Rouse’s major study of the ... -
Cracking the Code: Towards a Semiotic Understanding of Twitter and Its Use by Media Fans
(2013-07-09)Since Twitter joined the social media club in 2006, its use has increased steadily, particularly since 2009 (Deller 2011). Although it has received a lot of attention in the traditional media because of its use in relation ... -
Cooperative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Missing Link
(2013-07-09)This study examines organizational culture as a strategic determinant of cooperative buyer–supplier relationships. While historically, organizations sought lowest-bid solutions by having suppliers compete against one ... -
It's not only what we say but what we do”: Researching the rationales for the establishment of pay in five mixed sex, democratic worker cooperatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2013-03-07)As I explored in my previous SSHRC* funded research in 2006, worker cooperatives are based on the ideals of democratic participation and of egalitarianism: in general assemblies all the workers vote on the general principles ... -
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 ... -
Who Should you write for? - Competing Literary Systems in Colonial Papua and New Guinea
(2013-03-07)Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ... -
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
(2013-03-05)This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half ... -
Awareness and Use Of Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating: A Population-Based Study
(2013-03-05)Background: Despite wide spread use among practitioners, little is known about the awareness and use of Canada’s Food Guide (FG). The purpose of this study was to report on general and specific awareness of the FG and to ... -
Taking advantage of technology to engage students via distance
(2013-03-05)The session begins by introducing Athabasca University, our mandate as a distance university puts extra-importance on our service delivery and we must leverage technology to ensure we meet our students’ expectations. It ... -
What a librarian can do for your open online course
(2013-03-05)Information literacy tools used in face-to-face, blended, or online course environments are not scalable to massive open online courses, or MOOCs. We need a different approach based on the unique skills librarians bring ... -
Using Open Source Survey Tools for Qualitative Inquiries on Educational Development at a Distance Online University
(2013-03-05)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 ... -
Associations between sitting time and health-related quality of life and psychosocial health among older men
(2013-03-05)Population based objective assessments (i.e., accelerometers) indicate that older men (>60 years) have the highest levels of sedentary time with approximately 60% of their waking time engaged in sedentary behavior. Sedentary ... -
An Exploration of Factors Contributing to Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers Providing Care to Older Adult Relatives
(2013-03-05)This qualitative research study explored factors contributing to compassion fatigue in family caregivers who were assisting paid staff by helping to provide care to older adult relatives residing in long-term care facilities. ... -
Negating distance: Enhancing the doctoral experience through a technology-mediated cohort model
(2013-03-05)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 ...