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Ethics Review Concerns Of Canada’s Distance Researchers
(2009-01-23)
Ethics review of research involving humans is intended to protect human dignity by balancing harms and benefits. The foci and methods used in reviews vary nationally, but tend, as in Canada, to address core principles ...
Interview: With Farhad Saba and Rory McGreal, Wedemeyer Award Winners
(2009-02-18)
Speaking Personally—With Farhad Saba and Rory McGreal, Wedemeyer Award Winners
Interim Report 2: The Views and Preferences of Residents Regarding Post-Secondary Programming in Four Remote Alberta Communities
(2009-01-23)
The western Canadian province of Alberta possesses extraordinary resources in agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, and tourism. Because of its geography (its area is over 255,000 square miles, 661,000 square kilometers), ...
The Self-Reported Impact of Graduate Program Completion on the Careers and Plans of Graduates
(2009-01-23)
Abstract
The Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, commenced a survey of all graduates of its two programs, the Master of Distance Education (MDE) degree, and the Graduate Diploma (GD) in Technology, in ...
A Model for Framing Mobile Learning
(AU Press, 2009-03)
The Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (FRAME) model describes mobile learning as a process resulting from the convergence of mobile technologies, human learning capacities, and social interaction. It ...
The critical, relational practice of instructional design in higher education: an emerging model of change agency
(Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2009)
This paper offers an emerging interpretive framework for understanding the
active role instructional designers play in the transformation of learning systems in higher
education. A 3-year study of instructional designers ...
The Self-Reported Impact of Graduate Program Completion on the Careers and Plans of Graduates
(2009-01-23)
Abstract
The Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, commenced a survey of all graduates of its two programs, the Master of Distance Education (MDE) degree, and the Graduate Diploma (GD) in Technology, in ...
Stop paying twice for educational material: Online resources, open content make textbooks obsolete
(2009-10-22)
Let’s eliminate government waste AND save the environment. Paper-based school textbooks, workbooks, and test materials, not to mention multimedia, videos and educational games are being bought and re-bought or licensed and ...
On the Design of Collective Applications
(2009-09-09)
In this paper we define collective applications as those that employ the aggregated distinct behaviours of individuals in a crowd to shape their environment and to provide structure and influence in that environment. Such ...