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Domestic citizenship and Disability in Saskatchewan in the 1930's
(2010-08-04)
This paper is based on a diary written from 1937 to 1942 by my great aunt, Hilda Butcher, a white upper middle class English immigrant to Canada. Impaired by achondroplasia (“dwarfism”), Hilda used a wheelchair for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rapid Instructional Design: Increasing Educator Capacity for Developing E-learning Solutions
(2010-08-04)
Our paper presents the initial plan and theoretical groundwork for the rapid development of elearning solutions using Web 2.0 applications and services. The development of this model has been a collaborative venture and ...
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – Enclosing the Internet?
(2010-08-04)
This paper examines the ongoing negotiation process over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement from a Canadian perspective. ACTA, in brief, would represent a globalized version of the U.S. Digital Management Copyright ...
Converting Print-Based Course Materials for Online Delivery
(2010-08-04)
As part of an ongoing effort to move from print-based, distance-delivered course materials to online delivery, Athabasca University is undertaking to convert files stored in an SGML-based print publishing system to XHTML-based ...
The Web of Identity: Selfhood and Belonging in Online Learning Networks
(2010-06-17)
In this paper, the reflexive relationship between social interaction and understanding of self in online learning networks is examined. In keeping with constructionism, we acknowledge the significance of social interaction ...
Female Viewers’ Central and Peripheral Processing or Commercial TV Ads and Movies and Corresponding Changes in their Body Esteem
(2010-08-04)
Two experiments examined the complex and elusive process by which women experience changes in their body esteem while paying attention to commercial media messages featuring competing messages that invite them to value ...
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 ...
A Flexible Mechanism for Providing Adaptivity Based on Learning Styles in Learning Management
(2010-08-11)
While today’s learning management systems (LMSs) provide lot of support for teachers to assist them in holding online courses, they typically do not consider students’ individual differences in the composition and structure ...