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Mobile Wellness Innovation: Qi Gong App to Improve Wellness and Cognitive Resiliency in Older Adults
(Facet Publishing, 2015)
This pilot project explored the utility of a mobile health and wellness app to older adults interested in using low impact exercise as a protective factor against memory and mood loss. While it is known that exercise is a ...
Using mobile technology to enhance undergraduate student digital information literacy skills: A Canadian case study
(IAFOR, 2015-07-07)
Learning essential information literacy skills through the use of mobile phones is an innovative m-learning pilot project that was collaboratively undertaken in a Canadian university college over the course of two academic ...
Mobile Learning Innovation in Information Literacy Skills Training
(2015-10)
The Mobile Information Literacy (MIL) tool is a user-friendly literacy app to help university students hone their information literacy skills through mobile technology.
"Mobilising" web sites at open university: The Athabasca University experience
(MLearn 2012, 2012-03)
This mobile implementation study provides a general idea of how existing Athabasca University sites work with the
tested mobile devices and identifies the underlying issues as to why they work that way. Factors considered ...
Digital resilience in higher education
(2013-03-21)
Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and ...
Disruptive Pedagogies and Technologies in Universities
(Educational Technology & Society, 2012)
This paper is a reaction to the increasing high cost of
higher education and the resulting inaccessibility for the
millions of potential learners now seeking opportunities
for quality higher education opportunities. ...
Flexible paths to assessment for OER learners: A comparative study
(JIME: Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2012-12)
This paper highlights the preliminary findings of a one-year research
project (2011) that investigated the fit of recognizing prior learning (RPL)
practice and related assessment and transfer protocols to projected OER ...
Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education
(IRRODL, 2013)
The open educational resources initiative has been underway for over a decade now and higher education institutions are slowly adopting open educational resources (OER). The use and creation of OER are important aspects ...
Voice Interaction Online
(Nova, 2011)
This chapter examines the potential for voice activities to enhance online learning. Although research related to online writing tools (such as e-mail, discussion threads, blogs, and wikis) is growing and the use of ...
OER Policies in Canada: A POERUP country report.
(2013-04)
This paper reports on the status of OER policies in Canadian government and higher education institutions, consisting of a POERUP (Policies for OER Uptake) Europroject country report on the existence of policy documents ...