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An Academic's Life - at AU
(2011-03-09)Ever wondering what Athabasca University was like in the mid 1970s and 1980s? Here's your chance to find out…from someone who was there. From an academic's personal perspective, Dr. Robert Holmberg, Biology Professor, ... -
Around the World in Eight Hundred Days
(2011-03-09)Since January 2006, while on a two-year sabbatical leave, Dr. Jon Baggaley, Professor of Educational Technology, CDE, has circled the globe five times, developing and supervising distance education research and development ... -
Assignment Design for Effective Writing
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AU Research Ethics Processes
(2011-03-09)Why do we have a Research Ethics Board (REB)? Where can research ethics training and resources be found? Do we have expedited review? What is "AU Institutional Permission", and when is it needed? Dr. Patrick Fahy, REB ... -
AU's Learning Management System: Moodle
(2011-03-09)Moodle has been selected as the University's Learning Management System and is currently being piloted. This Lunch n' Learn is intended to give the AU community a look at the current state of the application and how we ... -
AU's Write Site
(2011-03-09)The AU Write Site's action plan to improve student writing skills includes provision of an assessment tool to determine students' current writing levels so they can register for appropriate writing courses. Coaching with ... -
Between the Auden Generation and the New Apocalypse: Politics & Poetry Networks in the 1930s and 40s
(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 ... -
The Canadian Census: All You Wanted to Know and Were Afraid to Ask!
(2011-03-09)Doug Kariel, Head, Technical Services & Systems, and Peggy Lynn MacIsaac, Reference Services Librarian, Library Services, will provide an overview of Canadian Census data, differentiating between what is available to the ... -
Canadian Virtual University (CV): Benefits to Students and to AU
(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 ... -
Centre for Distance Education Research Activities - Part 1
(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 ... -
Centre for Distance Education Research Activities - Part 2
(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 ... -
Challenges & Rewards of Rural Professional Practice
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Digital Libraries: Finding your way in the electronic labyrinth
(2011-03-09)AU Library's Kay Johnson, Head, Reference & Circulation Services, and Elaine Magusin, Reference Services Librarian, will be your guides to navigating through online information. The presenters will provide a tour of some ... -
E-Learning Strategies with Emergent Semantic Web Services
(2011-03-09)Key features and benefits of using a semantic web in e-learning systems, along with the technology and non-technology challenges of developing semantic web based learning object services, will be examined by Dr. Xiaokun ... -
Educational Social Software
(2011-03-09)A new genre of net based tools that are designed to support social connections, among students. They usually include blogging, profiling, filtering, and cooperative learning tools. Through discussion and demonstration ... -
Elluiminate Webconferencing in the Distributed University
(2011-03-09)Elluminate is the leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience through superior ... -
Everything…You Always Wanted to Know About PLAR...and More
(2011-03-09)Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition is a service to AU's adult and mature learners. The usefulness of PLAR as a tool is enhanced by understanding its as a learning activity rather than just an accreditation process. ... -
Exercising (and Exorcising) Cancer: The Role of Exercise in the Cancer Control Continuum
(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. ... -
Extending the Boundaries of Online Education
(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 ... -
Hollywood North: producing a video at Athabasca University
(2011-03-09)Dr. Robert Holmberg, Biology Professor, Centre for Science, along with Ian Grivois, Visual Designer, Educational Media Development, and Blaise Mac Mullin, Photographer/Videographer, Public Affairs, microscopy for biology ...