Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2010-2011
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EDPS 672 Issues in Postsecondary Education
(2011-05-03)This course examines the challenges and opportunities posed by the complex environments in which postsecondary institutions operate. Various theoretical lenses will be used to study such aspects of colleges and universities ... -
Creating a Social Support Environment
(2011-05-03)Join a team of 1,600 IT service and technical support MVPs as they face off against today’s most pressing service and support challenges. Only HDI’s IT service and technical support conference, with its expansive resources, ... -
Defining the Vision for the Next 100 Years
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1. Design, technology choices and interactive processes in an online doctoral program (poster
(2011-03-30)1. (Poster) Athabasca University’s first fully online doctoral program is now in its third year of teaching and implementation. This program, initially in Distance Education, involves four content courses and two research ... -
AUGO II: A comprehensive subauroral zone observatory
(2011-03-30)A new geophysical observatory dedicated to the study of the auroral borealis will be built 25 km southwest of the town of Athabasca, in Alberta, Canada. It is anticipated to see first light in the winter of 2010/2011 and ... -
Student Publications at Athabasca University
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13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference
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Multipoint Observations of the Large Substorm Associated with the Galaxy 15 Anomaly
(2011-03-30)On April 5, 2010 around 09 UT, the NOAA Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) observed a large reconfiguration of the magnetospheric magnetic field in the midnight to dawn local time sector. Specifically, ... -
CAMEG – A Multi-Agent Based Context-Aware Mobile Educational Game for On-the-Job Training
(2011-03-30)This presentation will report the research findings of the Alberta-North/Athabasca University research project, entitled “Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal and Low-Literacy Learners in Northern Communities”. ... -
Demography, Diet and Range Size in a Population of Black-handed Spider Monkey's
(2011-03-30)#1 Studies of wild Ateles geoffroyi yucatensis have occurred, or are ongoing in Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, but no sites have been established in Belize. Across study sites, group composition, average sub-group ... -
Sea Songs from Two Oceans: A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Songs from the Coasts of Yorkshire and British Columbia
(2011-03-30)Yorkshire folksong collector Frank Kidson did most of his fieldwork during the last two decades of the Victorian era. The fruits of his labours during the 1880s found expression in his pioneering collection Traditional ... -
A New Era in Distance Education
(2011-03-30)2) A New Era in Distance Education Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes, Associate Professor of Distance Education at AU, is co-editor with Dr. D. Randy Garrison of the University of Calgary, of a new book, An Introduction to ... -
2010 American Library Association Annual Conference
(2011-03-30)ALA's annual conference provides opportunities to attend over 300 educational programs on a variety of hot topics, provides networking opportunities through committee meetings and events, and allows librarians to keep up ... -
Warhol Wild: Applied Colour Theory Course
(2011-03-30)The Pop Art movement and the iconic themes of Andy Warhol have opened up many doors to the joyous notions of colour and have allowed it to move beyond the boundaries of tradition. The wild experiments of the colour field ... -
Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal Learners in Northern Communities
(2010-11-30)This presentation will report the research findings of the Alberta-North/Athabasca University research project, entitled “Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal and Low-Literacy Learners in Northern Communities”. ... -
Slipping the Chains of Credentialism
(2010-11-30)The assessment of prior learning (APL) has normally been associated with the attainment of credentials. Those of us involved in APL have always known that there is far more prior learning present with any learner than can ... -
From Vocational College to University: How One Group of Nurses Experienced the Transition
(2010-11-30)Vocationally trained Licensed Practical Nurses who attend university to earn a Bachelor of Nursing degree may lack the confidence, self direction and independence needed to succeed in higher education. This qualitative ... -
Mediating Student-Academic Interaction Through Contact Centres in Distance Education
(2010-11-17)This study investigates the pedagogical issues that arise from mediating student-academic interaction through a contact centre within university distance education. It is not easy for educational organizations to design ... -
The Self in Career Learning: An Evolving Dialogue
(2010-11-17)It is broadly accepted that modern society poses a significant challenge to an individual's career development and that there are as yet few theoretical frameworks that provide a holistic perspective on how to understand ... -
Re-imaging the Mexico/U.S. Border
(2010-11-17)There has been an ongoing literary and cinematographic presence of the Mexico/U.S. border as an antagonist. In the 2007 movie, La misma luna, the director Patricia Riggens breaks with the commonly accepted vision of the ...
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