Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2011-2012
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An Exploration of Factors Contributing to Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers Providing Care to Older Adult Relatives
(2013-03-05)This qualitative research study explored factors contributing to compassion fatigue in family caregivers who were assisting paid staff by helping to provide care to older adult relatives residing in long-term care facilities. ... -
An MAS Approach to Course Offering Determination
(2013-03-05)Course-offering determination (COD) for educational programs is the complex task of deciding what subset of courses an academic department or program should offer in a given academic term or semester. In this paper, we ... -
Negating distance: Enhancing the doctoral experience through a technology-mediated cohort model
(2013-03-05)Introduction: Canada’s first fully online doctoral program is now in its fifth year of teaching and implementation at Athabasca University and the first doctoral students have graduated. This program comprises four content ... -
Mobile Learning Numeracy in Ontario
(2013-03-05)The growth of mobile technologies and devices has penetrated the world substantially over the last 5 years, and a large percentage of these users are young users. This introduces profound changes to traditional teaching ... -
Using Open Source Survey Tools for Qualitative Inquiries on Educational Development at a Distance Online University
(2013-03-05)This paper reports on two open source survey tools that were used to gather data related to Athabasca University’s (AU) educational development activities within a qualitative evaluation framework. First, a Moodle questionnaire ... -
L1 and L2 Students Together: Online Education to the Rescue
(2013-03-05)This presentation explores a solution to the problem of L1 and L2 students taking the same course while addressing the specific needs of both. We examine the data from three courses, offered asynchronously online with both ... -
Attend 2012 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting
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Attend Sungard Summit 2012: Where Learning Happens
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Wēijī : East Asian Mothering
(2012-04-04)This conference presentation will highlight the conference theme of exploring motherhood and mothering in a global context. Wēijī represents the Chinese symbol for “crisis” and “opportunity” whereby reversing the characters ... -
Overview of Modern Higher Education Management in Mainland China (1949-2010)
(2012-04-04)The promulgation of the "Outline of China's National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020)" in July, 2010, opens a new page for higher education in China. To evaluate the significance ... -
The Structure of Belief
(2012-04-04)Beliefs play a significant role in most of the work we do with clients as career practitioners. This session will examine beliefs and belief structures historically and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint although the main ... -
Returning pedagogy to field practice through mobile technology
(2012-04-04)Our Technology Enhanced Health Practice Education Research in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University has several studies underway relating to the use of mobile technology (smart phones) in the clinical ... -
Avatars and Open Courseware in Distance Education Freshman Physics
(2012-04-04)Athabasca University has engaged thousands of students in for-credit, non-calculus freshman physics over the past 15 years, a success in part attributable to innovative use of home laboratory technology. In now offering ... -
Addressing the Landgrab in Southern Ontario
(2012-04-04)Globally, there is a growing landgrab by investors and foreign countries of prime farmland. NGOs such as Grain and the National Farmers Union have documented the landgrab throughout the world and within Canada. This paper ... -
Mobile Self-Efficacy in Canadian Nursing Education Programs
(2012-04-04)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 ... -
Athabasca University Mobile Learning: Delivering French Training Using Mobile Devices (Poster)
(2012-01-24)The poster illustrates how iPhone technology can be used to deliver French language training and engage students with interactive learning content. Five interactive lessons teaching basic French grammar and vocabulary ... -
Road to Mobile Learning
(2012-01-24)To meet the needs of students, and fulfill Athabasca University’s mission to remove barriers to learning, Athabasca University (AU) Library has initiated a number of mobile learning projects. The poster “Road to Mobile ... -
A Framework for Integrating Motivational Techniques in Technology Enhanced Learning
(2012-01-24)Motivation is a key factor in education. While there exist some educational system that consider techniques for motivating students, these systems implement only one or few techniques and assume that the respective ... -
U.S./Mexico Cultural Hybridization: The Emergence of a New Culture as Seen through the Directors Lens
(2012-01-24)The U.S./Mexico border has long been a cultural, economic and linguistic divide and the disjunction between the two worlds has been a source of literary inspiration to many artists on both sides of the border. An ongoing ... -
CASE: Annual Conference for Publications Professionals: New Media, Timeless Qualities
(2011-12-15)The word "publications" is rapidly being redefined. What once meant putting ink on paper and distributing copies through the mail has come to describe the dissemination of information and ideas in many forms, through many ...
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