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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
mLearning: Theory and Practice
(2011-03-09)
Is there any substance to the current hype about mobile learning? Marguerite Koole (Instructional Media Analyst) will discuss how mobile devices enable access to a rich environment of information and people, thereby ...
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 ...
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 ...
Using 3D Virtual Worlds: Engaging AU Learners & Providing Social Support
(2011-03-09)
Demonstrating how an avatar-based 3-D learning environment can more fully engage AU learners in their online educational experience Dr. David Annand, Gunnar Schwede, Gabriela Husch and Marguerite Koole will showcase a ...
The Virtual Expanses of Canadian Popular Culture
(2011-03-09)
Dr. Derek Briton, Associate Director, Centre for Integrated Studies, will provide an overview of the impact of virtual worlds—Massiviely Multiple Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs)—on Canadian popular culture, including ...
Visual Stress Theory and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome
(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 ...