Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2011-2012 by Issue Date
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Barriers to Education: Access to Funding for Students with Disabilities
(2011-05-03)Three main barriers to post-secondary education for students with disabilities: physical accessibility, financial issues, and stereotypical attitudes have been identified in the literature (Canadian Council on Learning, ... -
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, ... -
Embodied and Embedded Intelligence: Actor Agents on Virtual Stages
(2011-05-03)In this presentation, we will argue that Actor Agents, a type of Animated Pedagogical Agent with embodied conversational intelligence, are well positioned to act in virtual environments with embedded intelligence and that, ... -
Workers Against Austerity – Lessons from Canada’s ‘Days of Action,’ 1995-1998
(2011-05-03)Workers versus Austerity: Lessons from Canada's Days of Action, 1995-1998 The Great Recession has left in its wake an expected "age of austerity" where the deficits accumulated to stave off economic collapse, are being ... -
Cloud Computing-based IT Solutions For Organizations with Multiregional Branch Offices
(2011-05-05)One of the most significant phenomena of the new century is globalization. As business goes global, multiregional branch offices are needed and networked computing and information services must then be established for those ... -
Something Old, Something New: Reflective Journals and Social Networking
(2011-05-17)The practice of writing journals is a tried and tested method for developing student writing skills and reflection on the process of writing. With current technology, this method can be updated and given a new dimension ... -
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Accreditation course
(2011-05-17)Executive Accreditation course towards achieving the designation as an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC). -
Story Not (Yet) My Own: First World War Correspondence and Prosthetic Memory
(2011-06-29)In this paper I will explore the role of material culture in the convergence of narrative and memory with specific reference to a family archive of World War I letters and photos. I take as my jumping off point Michele ... -
Landscape and Ethnoecology - an Ethnobiological View
(2011-06-29)Landscape is often taken for granted in ethnobiological work, treated as setting, described in geographic or biological terms. Landscape is productive to examine as the (literal) foundation of ethnobiological work: where ... -
The Association Between Older Age, Co-Morbidity, and Treatment Status of Incident Osteoporotic Fractures: A Population-Based Nested Cohort Study
(2011-06-29)BACKGROUND: Despite strong evidence-based rationale for both the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis, there remains an overall low prevalence of osteoporosis treatment in older adults. Furthermore, there is ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Technical Services Roundtable
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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 ... -
Housing of Immigrants: Some Psychological Issues
(2011-06-29)International migration is a common phenomenon. The housing of an immigrant’s host society can be very different from that of the society of origin. As new immigrants’ experiences of and expectation about housing (e.g., ... -
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 ... -
Understanding Histone H1 Binding Mechanism Through Model Comparison and FRAP Experiments
(2011-08-25)Histone H1 or linker histones play an important role in the package and order of DNA in eukaryotic cell nuclei by associating to and dissociating from the chromatin structure. Thus, in order to better understand the formation ... -
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ... -
Towards a Biography of Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929): Problems and Perspectives
(2011-08-25)Lucy E. Broadwood was one of the leading folksong collectors in England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the founders of the (English) Folk-Song Society, she subsequently played a major role in the ...