Centre for Distance Education: Recent submissions
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Post-Secondary Learning Priorities of Workers in an Oil Sands Camp in Northern Alberta
(2008-05-27)This paper reports results to date of a three-year project by Athabasca University, intended to determine the education and training needs and interests of employees in a work camp in northern Alberta’s oil sands. (Future ... -
Web-Based Training
(2008-05-27)Current Web-based training (WBT) is based on accumulated research and experience with strategies for improving learning and instruction, beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing to the present. ... -
Learning communities in the oil sands, and in remote and rural Alberta.
(2008-05-27)This presentation updates information about the learning needs and interests of workers in remote work camps, as part of the Learning Communities Project. The presentation contains information gathered in the period ... -
The Learning Communities Project: Bringing distance education to Alberta's remote work camps and rural areas.
(2008-05-27)This presentation adds more information about the learning interests of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. employees and contractors, working at the company Horizon site, north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. -
Audiences and content for distance programming in remote Alberta workplaces.
(2008-05-27)Report on learning interests of Canadian Natural Resources employees at the Horizon site, Ft. McMurray, Alberta. Presentation is based on preliminary data collected to October 2007. -
Interim Report 1: Learning Communities Project
(2008-02-27)Executive summary This is the first formal report of the Learning Communities Project (LCP), based on results of the evaluation and research activities conducted to date. The major findings of the project, and ... -
Problems and Little Victories in Transcript Analysis
(2008-02-27)Transcript analysis requires researchers to recognize the value of CMC transcripts as a way of understanding the psychosocial dynamics of groups, and in the process to address issues of validity, ethics, and practice. This ... -
Web-based training
(John Wiley and Sons, 2008)Current Web-based training (WBT) is based upon accumulated research and experience with strategies for improving learning and instruction, beginning in the early part of the 20th century and continuing to the present. Use ... -
Using Mobile Learning to Enhance the Quality of Nursing Practice Education
(2007-11-28)In this chapter, we first review the research literature pertaining to the use of mobile devices in nursing education and assess the potential of mobile learning (m-learning) for nursing practice education experiences in ... -
Problem Formulation and Resolution in Online Problem-Based Learning
(International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning, 2006)This paper discusses an exploratory study to investigate the existence, and nature, of student problem formulation and resolution processes in an undergraduate online Problem-Based Learning (PBL) course in Agricultural ... -
Conversation as Inquiry: A conversation with instructional designers
(Journal of Learning Design, 2006)Instructional designers regularly engage in a process of professional and personal transformation that has the potential to transform the culture of institutions through faculty-client relationships. Instructional ... -
Using Mobile Learning to Enhance the Quality of Nursing Practice Education
(2007-10-18)The purpose of this paper is to review the research literature pertaining to the use of mobile devices in Nursing Education and assess the potential of mobile learning (m-learning) for Nursing practice education experiences ... -
Web-Based Training
(John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2004)Current Web-based training (WBT) is based upon systematic research and experience with strategies for improving learning and instruction, beginning in the early part of the 20th century and continuing to the present. Use ... -
Use of the Bales model for analysis of small group communications in the analysis of interaction in computer-based asynchronous conferences
(International Assocation of Science and Technology for Development, 2004)Examination of online, text-based interaction in computer conferences (CMC), for patterns and processes first detected in the early 1950s in face-to-face groups, showed some similarities, and several differences. ... -
Multimedia in Open and Distance Learning
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Interim report 1: ESPORT project evaluation
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Interim report 2: ESPORT project evaluation
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Considerations in Planning for Online Technology in Open and Distance Learning
(Global E-Journal of Open and Flexible Learning, 2001)Online technologies, especially computer-based communications tools, potentially permit greater flexibility for users. Preceding these potential advantages, however, are important questions about communications and ... -
Media Characteristics and Online Learning Technology
(Athabasca University Press, 2004)