Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2011-2012 by Title
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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 ... -
Maximizing Library Online Presence while Minimizing Maintenance
(2011-06-29)This paper presents challenges and opportunities for academic libraries to increase their online presence in learning management systems (LMS). Successful examples from Athabasca University Library will highlight the ... -
Mendicant vs Aristocratic Pedagogy in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
(2011-06-29)“The Summoner’s Tale” (1390s) in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales satirizes the hypocrisy of mendicant friars. Previous criticism has either focused on the portrait of the hypocritical character of Friar John in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Moral Distress within the Counselor - Supervisory Relationship
(2011-11-03)Moral distress, an ethical concern that runs across many health professions, is described as the experience of knowing the morally right thing to do, yet not doing it due to personal, social, or institutional constraints. ... -
Multitenancy - Security Risks and Countermeasures
(2013-03-05)Security within the cloud is of paramount importance as the interest and indeed utilization of cloud computing increase. Multitenancy in particular introduces unique security risks to cloud computing as a result of more ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Place called Home: The Social and Cultural Context of Health
(2011-06-29)Background Arts in health-care is an emerging movement that links the expressive arts with the healing arts and brings these into the mainstream of traditional health-care to promote well-being. Dr. Gene Cohen, who was ... -
Political Economy of Higher Education: South Africa in a comparative perspective
(2011-12-15)Education is one of the major linchpins of economic, social and political development of any nation. There is overwhelming evidence suggesting that higher education can produce both public and private benefits. Thus, the ... -
Project Management Assets and Project Management Performance: Preliminary Findings
(2011-08-25)The objective of this research is to examine the degree of competitive advantage from project management assets by exploring the link between the characteristics of project management assets as independent variables and ... -
Reaching for a Good Life – An Application of the Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation with Men who are Abusive in Intimate Relationships
(2011-08-25)Reaching for a Good Life (RFGL) is a program for men who are abusive within an intimate relationship. RFGL has 4 components: a weekly orientation group, individual intake interview, the 16 week group program and the exit ... -
Reading Ursula Bowlby’s Letters (1939-1940): A Chronicle of First Time Motherhood
(2011-06-29)Following the birth of her first child, Ursula Bowlby wrote numerous letters to her husband, Dr. John Bowlby. He was working away from home and returned only for brief weekend visits. Ursula’s letters express her absorption ... -
Recognizing the Embeddedness of Ethics and Economics
(2011-06-29)The relationship between ethics and economics is far more intimate than the West, since the Enlightenment, has typically recognized. Indeed, as I will try to show, the actual relationship is best explained by adopting a ... -
Return of Student Assignments in Distance Education: Various Technologies to Reduce Turnaround Time
(2011-08-25)We evaluated five technologies that tutors could use to mark assignments and return the results to students electronically (i.e. by e-mail). The five technologies are: word processors, computer fax, scanners, graphics ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Seasonal Variation in Sexual Segregation in spider Monkeys (Ateles GeoffroyI Yucatanensis) at Runaway Creek Nature Preserve Belize
(2011-11-02)Sexual segregation, the separation of males and females socially or by habitat, has been recognized as a dimension of the socio-ecology of many vertebrates, but has not been quantified or systematically examined in primates. ... -
Silent Historiographers: Memories of Struggle, Scripts of Resistance
(2011-05-03)The main objective of this paper is to draw attention to the possibilities in testimonials to strengthen the decolonizing vein in postcolonial culture critique. With elements of oral history, autobiography, life story, ...