Centre for Distance Education: Recent submissions
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Vision for Change: a concept paper for the development of a virtual learning system
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The growing impact of open access distance education journals - a bibliometric analysis.
(2010-08-17)Open access dissemination resonates with many distance education researchers and practitioners because it aligns with their fundmantal mission of extending access to learning opportunity. However, there remains lingering ... -
A Canadian educational initiative falls victim to technology: Industry Canada allows cellphone providers to abandon commitment to provide bandwidth for learning programs
(Edmonton Journal, 2010-02-24)A consortium of Bell and Rogers, known as Inukshuk, is dropping out of its obligation to support education in Canada. Historically, the 2500-2690 MHz wireless bandwidth, was designated for educational use in Canada and ... -
New copyright fee will see students pay more for learning materials
(Edmonton Journal, 2010-04-14)Access Copyright has just published a fee proposal with the Copyright Board of Canada that will substantially increase the fees that college and university students pay for their learning content. Titled the Access ... -
New copyright bill shortchanges consumers
(Edmonton Journal, 2010-07-16)Do you see what I see in the new copyright Bill C-32? Amid all the noise about new rights for users, upon closer scrutiny, this bill, rather than granting new rights, can effectively block users from making use of any and ... -
The Networked Future of Athabasca University Pedagogy
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THE DANCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY IN SELF-PACED DISTANCE EDUCATION
(2009-06-23)This paper describes the dance like relationship between pedagogy and technologies that creates distance education programming. Using a dance metaphor, the paper describes earlier generation of distance education and notes ... -
Co-presented 3 papers: "E-Portfolios: A Viable Capstone Activity for Graduate Programs", "Developing Community of Inquiry in a Mobile Learning Context", and "Connecting at the Point of Care: Indirect Supervision in Nursing Practice Education."
(2009-05-21)Paper 1:E-Portfolios: A Viable Capstone Activity for Graduate Programs Abstract: A pilot study was conducted to explore the use of e-portfolios as an alternative to the standard written and oral comprehensive examination ... -
An Evaluation of the Commonwealth of Learning section on Elearning for International Organisations
(2008-10-31)This report includes an evaluation of the work of the Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) eLearning with International Organisations (eLIO) section. Participants in the investigation included representative samples of the ... -
The mind of a plagiarist
(Taylor & Francis Group LTD, 2005-03)The ease with which material may be "copied and pasted" from the Internet into written work is raising concern in educational institutions, and particularly in those disciplines that use online courses and methods in their ... -
Factors Affecting the Development and Use of Learning Objects
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006)This study explored barriers and facilitating factors affecting the development and use of learning objects in developing instructional materials and their use in supporting individualized learning. Over a two-month period, ... -
Developing a collaborative community: Guidelines for establishing a computer-mediated language learning project with a developing country.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Proficiency in a second language and intercultural awareness are seen as important personal and professional assets as we take an increasingly global perspective. In Australia, Indonesian is one of the priority languages, ... -
A Methodology for Developing Learning Objects for Web Course Delivery
(IGI Publishing, 2008-07)This paper presents a methodology for developing learning objects for Web-based courses using the IMS LD (Learning Design) specification. We first investigated the IMS LD specification, determining how to use it with ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Don’t blame the policy
(University Affairs, 2004-01) -
Investigating Triggers in CMC Text Transcripts
(International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2003-10) -
Chat and Instant Messaging Systems (synchronous): Report 3/ 3
(International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2002-10)A further set of four text-based instant messaging (IM) products was evaluated: AT&T Anywhere, Parachat, Sonork, and Yahoo Messenger, all available at no cost. Yahoo Messenger was judged to be the most effective of the ...