Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2012-2013: Recent submissions
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It's not only what we say but what we do”: Researching the rationales for the establishment of pay in five mixed sex, democratic worker cooperatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2013-03-07)As I explored in my previous SSHRC* funded research in 2006, worker cooperatives are based on the ideals of democratic participation and of egalitarianism: in general assemblies all the workers vote on the general principles ... -
Hope in Day to Day Living of Residents in Long-term Care
(2013-03-07)A project designed to focus on hope for residents was implemented in an ongoing support group in a long-term care facility in Western Canada. Because seniors frequently enter a care center when there has been a decline in ... -
ALBA and UNASUR – The Emergence of Counter-hegemonic Regional Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2013-03-07)Latin America and the Caribbean have been victims of more than 500-years of colonialism and imperialism. A key component of both colonialism and imperialism has been the denial of and/or distortion of sovereignty throughout ... -
Who Should you write for? - Competing Literary Systems in Colonial Papua and New Guinea
(2013-03-07)Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ... -
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
(2013-03-05)This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half ... -
Awareness and Use Of Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating: A Population-Based Study
(2013-03-05)Background: Despite wide spread use among practitioners, little is known about the awareness and use of Canada’s Food Guide (FG). The purpose of this study was to report on general and specific awareness of the FG and to ... -
Taking advantage of technology to engage students via distance
(2013-03-05)The session begins by introducing Athabasca University, our mandate as a distance university puts extra-importance on our service delivery and we must leverage technology to ensure we meet our students’ expectations. It ... -
What a librarian can do for your open online course
(2013-03-05)Information literacy tools used in face-to-face, blended, or online course environments are not scalable to massive open online courses, or MOOCs. We need a different approach based on the unique skills librarians bring ... -
Using Open Source Survey Tools for Qualitative Inquiries on Educational Development at a Distance Online University
(2013-03-05)This paper reports on two open source survey tools that were used to gather data related to Athabasca University’s (AU) educational development activities within a qualitative evaluation framework. First, a Moodle questionnaire ... -
Associations between sitting time and health-related quality of life and psychosocial health among older men
(2013-03-05)Population based objective assessments (i.e., accelerometers) indicate that older men (>60 years) have the highest levels of sedentary time with approximately 60% of their waking time engaged in sedentary behavior. Sedentary ... -
Chunking and Extracting Text Content for Mobile Learning: A Query-focused Summarizer Based on Relevance Language Model
(2013-03-05)Millions of text contents and multimedia published on the Web have potential to be shared as the learning contents. However, mobile learners often feel it difficult to extract useful contents for learning. Manually creating ... -
Photo Essay Documenting Canadainas and their Interactions with Water
(2013-03-05)With 2013 designated as the UN Year of Water Cooperation, I feel that the bulk of a Canadians and Water project documented this year would offer the opportunity to release a completed project in 2013. The scope of my ... -
Attend The International Wikimedia Conference 2012
(2013-03-05)Participate in the Wikimania 2012 The International Wikimedia Conference, explore the research and development with Wikimedia applications. Learn more about what Wikimedia community had tried and where they are going, ... -
Take the Challenge for Primary Health Care and Pediatric APNs: Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Support for Parents of Chronically Ill Children
(2013-01-10)Parents of children with chronic illnesses experiences tremendous burden when caring for their children at home. There are many challenges that are present throughout the course of chronic illnesses. To provide better ... -
Factors Mediating Female Viewers’ Processing of Realistic or Unrealistic Female Beauty Appeals in Movies and Affecting their Body Esteem: A Mixed Method Study
(2012-11-15)This study examined female movie female viewers’ attention to onscreen relational information and their response to feminine beauty appeals that may explain why they experienced different body esteem outcomes. Body esteem ... -
Use of a computer controlled spectrophotometer in home chemistry experiments
(2012-11-15)Home lab experiments in general chemistry often involve simple chemical manipulations, general chemical observations, and measurements of volume and mass. A mass balance is often the most complex piece of lab equipment ... -
The Short-Term Effects of Hurricane Richard on Diet, Behaviour, and Sub-grouping Patterns of Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve, Belize
(2012-11-15)“The Short-Term Effects of Hurricane Richard on Diet, Behaviour, and Sub-grouping Patterns of Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve, Belize” Studying the effects of natural disturbances such ... -
Patterns of aggression in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyii yucatanensis) at Runway Creek Nature Reserve, Belize
(2012-11-15)“Patterns of aggression in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyii yucatanensis) at Runway Creek Nature Reserve, Belize” K. Hartwell¹, H. Notman1, 2, & M.S.M. Pavelka¹ ¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada ²Athabasca ... -
Designer - Supporting Teachers Experience in Learning Management Systems
(2012-11-15)In the lifelong learning context, the efficiency of learning is measured according to the users’ achievement of the target competences. However, in a virtual learning environment supporting the competence development process ... -
‘Derrida’s “Economimesis’ and Laruelle’s Onto-Photo-Logical Critique of Photography Theory
(2012-11-15)In a key passage in his Copy, Archive, Signature, Derrida reflects on the hinge between the active and passive senses of the rhetorical trope of invention as it bears on the photographic act: “There is a concept of photography ...