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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 ...
1st International Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Social Learning - TESL2011
(2011-11-18)
This paper presents an ongoing project that builds engaging, affectionate, and effective pedagogical agents in 3D virtual worlds for learning. Utilizing the theory of Transformed Social Interaction (TSI), we design pedagogical ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...