Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2011-2012: Recent submissions
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Speaking For Freedom, Normalizing the Net
(2012-01-24)An enduring perspective on the impact of digital technologies argues that these technologies can expand freedom and re-invigorate democracy. Yet, there has always been a contrary, more pessimistic perspective, that ... -
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 ... -
Stage Predicting Student Stay Time Length on Webpages of Online Courses Based on Grey Models
(2012-01-24)To provide adaptive learning, an e-learning system needs to gather information about what student state is while the student learns online course. A student state index is the length of time the student stays on a webpage ... -
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 ... -
Canadian adult education and work and learning research
(2011-12-15)Canadian Adult Education and Work and Learning Research The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the contributions to Canadian work and learning research from a review of the Canadian Association for the Study of ... -
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 ... -
Effective Teaching Behaviours in Using High Fidelity Simulation
(2011-12-15)The use of high fidelity human patient simulation is increasing in nursing education programs. Simulation is used to help enhance students’ problem solving abilities, facilitate psycho-motor, communication and assessment ... -
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 ... -
Contract Management Principles and Practices
(2011-11-18)In this course, you will learn how to manage all aspects of project procurement effectively. You will discover the logic behind contracting principles and practices, and you'll learn the terms, techniques, and tools of ... -
Effective SQL Injection Attack Reconstruction Using Network Recording
(2011-11-18)Utilizing the location-awareness of mobile devices in developing innovative mobile application system has attracted much attention of academic researchers and commercial application developers. Location-based mobile learning ... -
Attend a three-week residency component for an MA degree.
(2011-11-03)The MA in Professional Communication program consists of two years of study with an annual three-week on-campus residency each year. Faculty with expert, real-world experience provide a solid foundation of advanced ... -
Accreditation, Benchmarks, and Competition: The ‘ABC’s’ of Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning
(2011-11-03)Communicating quality to various publics remains a challenge for higher education institutions engaged in open and distance learning. The quality assurance tools and approaches developed in the past decade have largely ... -
Chaos and Organizational Emergence: Towards Short Term Predictive Modeling to Navigate a Way Out of Chaos
(2011-11-03)Organizational emergence from chaotic events has often been described as unpredictable and random, at least when observed over the long term. Through a literature review this paper paves the path for the possible development ... -
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. ... -
Implementing Mobile Learning Across Cultures Globally: Opportunities and Challenges” and to present a poster entitled, "Athabasca University Mobile Learning: Delivering French Training Using Mobile Devices
(2011-11-02)Because of the rapid growth in the use of mobile technology globally, there is the potential to reach learners around the world to help them become more educated and to improve the quality of life. Mobile technology allows ... -
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. ... -
Luminescence profiling of postglacial eolian dunes in central and northern Alberta using a portable OSL reader
(2011-11-02)Regular luminescence dating is a lengthy procedure that entails elaborate sample preparation as well as multiple measurements to arrive at an age of a given sample. In practice, not all samples that may appear datable in ... -
Workers social wage struggles in the Great Depression and the era of Neo-Liberalism: International Comparisons
(2011-11-02)This paper looks globally at the ways in which workers attempted to win a degree of income stability through state guarantees of social entitlements in two periods: first, the Great Depression, when income stability via ... -
Artistic Pedagogical Technologies: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Online Nursing Education.
(2011-11-02)Introduction -Technology allows us to transcend time and space. Our world has become essentially without boundaries. Nursing education has changed, and will continue to evolve as technology advances. Already many nurses, ...