• Punishing Processes in Youth Court: Procedural Justice, Court Atmosphere and Youths’ Views of the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System 

  Greene, Carolyn (2011-04-04)

• Large Scale Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Projects 

  Thomas, Janice; George, Stella (2011-04-01)

• Challenges & Rewards of Rural Professional Practice 

  Malone, Judi (2011-04-01)

• Assignment Design for Effective Writing 

  Ives, Cindy; Pringle, Mary; McCloud-Bondoc, Linda; Bosse, Corinne (2011-04-01)

• The New Generation of Chinese Women in the Age of Internet 

  McQuaide, Shiling (2011-04-01)

• Optimizing the Learning Experience for All Learners 

  Treviranus, Jutta (2011-04-01)

• "Metadata Possibilities: from the IEEE LOM through Dublin Core to ...the "Cloud"? 

  Friesen, Norman (2011-04-01)

• We Know More Than You Think! What do we know about the student experience? What draws students to Athabasca University? 

  Parker, Nancy (2011-03-30)

  Dr. Nancy Parker, Director, Institutional Studies, will present key trends for Athabasca University learners and support services. Discussion will include benchmarking surveys, highlighting data obtained from a number of ...

• Remediation and "V for Vendetta:": The Case for Bibliographical Cultural Studies 

  Gifford, James (2011-03-09)

  From his Vancouver location, Dr. James Gifford, AU Tutor and Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, will use reproductions of the various bibliographical states of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta" to ...

• Extending the Boundaries of Online Education 

  Hrastinski, Stefan (2011-03-09)

  How are students using social media to support educational learning? Online educational initiatives tend to focus on formal dimensions of education, yet most learning occurs outside learning management systems. The social ...

• Learning Support for Calculus 

  Ives, Cindy; Torres, Maria; Law, Sandra; Yan, Hongxin (2011-03-09)

  Centre for Learning Design & Development (CLDD) Director Dr. Cindy Ives, Centre for Science Math Academic Coordinator Dr. Maria Torres, along with (CLDD) Instructional Media Analysts Sandra Law and Hongxin Yan will report ...

• Between the Auden Generation and the New Apocalypse: Politics & Poetry Networks in the 1930s and 40s 

  Gifford, James (2011-03-09)

  From his Vancouver location, Dr. James Gifford, AU Tutor and Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson university, will retrace anarchist and socialist English poetry networks competing in the 1930s and 1940s in continental ...

• LANGblog - Audioblog for Parctising Oral Skills Online 

  Borges, Federico (2011-03-09)

  Developed by a team of teachers and technologists at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain, LANGblog is an audioblog created to enable students to practice oral skills in an online asynchronous setting. Dr. Federico ...

• Role of the Online Learner: A Comprehensive Model Put Forward 

  Borges, Federico (2011-03-09)

  Dr. Federico Borges, Professor of English at UOC, and Visiting Researcher at AU, has focused his research on the online learner as a key—and at times disregarded—element in e-learning. Dr. Borges will explain The Role of ...

• Visual Stress Theory and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome 

  Brennan, Paul (2011-03-09)

  How does the functional design of text—its color, size, spacing, background page color—add to or diminish visual stress? Paul Brennan, AU MScIS graduate, will present some of his thesis work during an overview of visual ...

• The Status and Future of Broadcasting 

  Fraser, Fil (2011-03-09)

  In deciding not to try to regulate the Internet, is the Canadaian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in danger of becoming an anachronism? Dr. Fil Fraser, Visiting Graudate Professor, Centre for ...

• Canadian Virtual University (CV): Benefits to Students and to AU 

  Busch, Vicky (2011-03-09)

  In 2000, Athabasca University created CVU, a consortium of accredited Canadian universities that offer complete degrees, diplomas, and certificates online and through distrnace education by accepting each other's courses ...

• Exercising (and Exorcising) Cancer: The Role of Exercise in the Cancer Control Continuum 

  Vallance, Jeff (2011-03-09)

  Physical exercise is a proven intervention that enhances psychosocial and physical outcomes in cancer survivors; however, despite these benefits, the majority of survivors are not meeting public health exercise guidelines. ...

• Centre for Distance Education Research Activities - Part 2 

  Jones, Tom; Fahy, Patrick J.; Hoven, Debra; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Ally, Mohamed (2011-03-09)

  Drs. Tom Jones, Pat Fahy, Debra Hoven, Marti Cleveland-Innes, Marguerite Koole, and Mohamed Ally will cover the following topics: Distance Education Potential for a Canadian Rural Island Community and on-line learning and ...

• Centre for Distance Education Research Activities - Part 1 

  Anderson, Terry; Moisey, Susan D.; Baggaley, Jon; Kenny, Richard F.; Bhattacharya, Madhumita (2011-03-09)

  Drs. Terry Anderson, Susan Moisey, Jon Baggaley, Rick Kenny, and Mita Bhattacharya, will make a presentation covering the following topics: Social Software and Independent Study, Distance Education for learners with ...

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