Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2011-2012: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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. ... -
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, ... -
Study of mobile collaborative information system using distributed database architecture
(2011-11-02)This paper examines the feasibility of communal information sharing between mobile devices using a distributed architecture for the underlying database topology, through research aimed at satisfying two primary objectives: ... -
The InterSSCT Model: Systemic Cross-Cultural School-Based Mental Health Programming
(2011-08-25)This paper describes the InterSSCT (“intersect”) approach to the delivery of school-based counselling services. The InterSSCT approach is a transcultural, transtheoretical, systemic heuristic to assess needs, plan, execute, ... -
Creating an “Invitational Classroom” in the Online Educational Milieu
(2011-08-25)Parker Palmer, a scholar who studied effective face-to-face teaching, introduced the term the “invitational classroom” (1993, p. 71). In particular Palmer emphasized that “an air of hospitality” facilitated the inviting ... -
Academic Program Life Cycles: An Application of a Dynamic Growth Model
(2011-08-25)The basic mixed-influence diffusion growth model was extended by including economic factors (GDP, Recruitment Expenditures) deemed potentially to influence enrollment demand for academic programs. The regression analysis ... -
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 ... -
Attend the Summer Publishing Workshops
(2011-08-25)Copy Editing and Proofreading: (2 days) This two-day workshop is ideal for anyone wanting an introduction to the world of publishing or communications, or for anyone currently called upon to improve the writing of others ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Developing and implementing a continuing competence program for professional psychologists: A Canadian perspective
(2011-08-25)Discusses the development of a continuing competence program for professional psychologists. Many North American jurisdictions have mandatory continuing education that involves collecting continuing education hours in a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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., ...