Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2010-2011 by Title
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Growth Model for Academic Program Life Cycles: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
(2010-08-04)Academic program life cycle concept states that each program’s life flows through several stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to enrollment ... -
The Influence of Network Convergence on VoIP
(2010-08-11)Voice traffic operating within a shared packetized data network must meet the stringent expectations set forth by its circuit switched predecessor. Increases in network throughput, decreases in end-to-end latency, jitter ... -
Information Literacy: Case Studies and Practices
(2010-08-04)Athabasca University Library, Red Deer College Library, and the University of Alberta Libraries have developed and implemented collaborative curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction. Participants will learn ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training
(2010-08-11)The need for studies on learning via mobile device, particularly how workplace and language training might be conducted, grows in importance as more and more people become mobile device users.The Athabasca University (AU) ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training: The Athabasca University Mobile Workplace
(2010-07-14)Abstract of Workshop #2: Empowering Learners with Mobile Learning Anytime and anywhere learning is here with mobile learning. The use of mobile technologies will allow adult learners to access learning materials and ... -
(Ir)responsible Government, Deliberat(iv)e Democracy and the Evasion of Democratic Constitutionalism since Meech Lake
(2011-06-09)The de-legitimation of elite representation and bargaining in constitutional politics since the mid-1980s has resulted in a more challenging environment both for the management of inter-cultural relations and the reform ... -
"Keeping Older Adults at Home: Are Family/Friend Caregivers at Risk for Compassion Fatigue? and Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers Located in Long-Term Care Facilities"
(2010-09-21)“Keeping older adults at home: Are family/friend caregivers at risk for compassion fatigue?” In Canada there are an estimated 2.7 million family/friend caregivers, including 216,000 over age 75. These older adult ... -
Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice
(2010-07-14)Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice It has been suggested that over the next eighteen months CASAE members review the 30 years of CASAE existence and as part of that ... -
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 ... -
Mobile Learning-Student Perspectives
(2010-11-17)The use of mobile learning (m-learning) to deliver course content and/or learning activities, is a relatively new instructional design strategy, currently gaining momentum in postsecondary and distance education institutions. ... -
Mobile Self Efficacy in Canadian Nursing Education Programs
(2011-03-30)The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what are the implications for their teaching and learning in practice ... -
Modeling Service Choreographies with Rule-enhanced Business Processes
(2011-03-30)The research community has so far mainly focused on the problem of modeling of service orchestrations in the domain of service composition, while modeling of service choreographies has attracted less attention. The following ... -
Models for Strategy Choice in Random or Potentially Deceptive Environments
(2010-07-14)Two simulation models are presented illustrative of decision and behavioural choice issues for complex adaptive systems involving cognitive agents. The first illustrates the value of managed instability for complex systems. ... -
Mother Still Loves Best: Attachment Theory’s Influence on Mothering Practice-Then and Now
(2010-06-17)John Bowlby's (1907 - 1990) attachment theory was formulated to explain mother-infant bonding. The theory was bound by a number of assumptions that placed responsibility for child rearing soley in the hands of women. ... -
Motivation to Move-Nurse Practitioners and Physical Activity Counseling and Canadian Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction
(2010-07-14)POSTER #1: Motivation to Move - Nurse Practitioners and Physical Activity Counseling Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore Canadian NPs perceived competence and importance pertaining to counseling/prescribing ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The New Generation of Chinese Women in the Age of Internet
(2010-07-14)Since internet was introduced into China in 1995, it has developed rapidly. Along with the swift increase of internet users, we have witnessed the narrowing-down gender gap in internet usage. All major websites in China ... -
Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours
(2010-08-11)Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours Cheryl Kiera and Ambrose Leungb Athabasca University Mount Royal University This study explored the relationships between authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive ... -
The Philosophical Canon: East and West
(2010-07-14)This paper will examine the professional bias present in our philosophy departments against identifying Eastern traditions, such as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, as genuine philosophies that have a rightful place in ...