Centre for Distance Education: Recent submissions
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Interactions Affording Distance Science Education
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A comparison of AU Press with traditional university presses: Two years later
(ElPub, 2012-06)This paper followus up on an analysis conducted in 2010 comparing an open access press with traditional university presses based on Amazon rankings. The findings support the previous research that there is no significant ... -
Excess copyright: How restrictive copyright legislation impedes technological innovation
(The Seventh International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology. ICCGI 2012, 2012-06-27)This paper explains how copyright laws being promoted by the USA are being used to prevent the development of open educational resources. This includes a brief history explaining the origins of copyright law leading ... -
The interaction equivalency theorem
(Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2010-01)This paper examines the key issues regarding The Interaction Equivalency Theorem posited by Anderson (2003a), which consists of the three interaction elements found in formal education courses among teacher, student, and ... -
Design-Based Research: A Decade of Progress in Education Research?
(Educational Researcher, 2012-06)Design-based research (DBR) evolved near the beginning of 21st century and was heralded as a practical research methodology that could effectively bridge the chasm between research and practice in formal education. In this ... -
The Open Educational Resources Movement:: Free learning for all students
(IEEE, 2012-07-05)In recent years, the term Open Educational Resources (OER) has emerged, aiming to promote open access to digital educational resources that are available online for everyone at a global level [1]. The term was first adopted ... -
Virtual platforms at Athabasca University
(2012-08-12)The Athabasca University environment includes a virtual media lab (the e-Lab) which is an integrated website platform for curriculum enhancement and development, social networking, and pedagogical and disciplinary research. ... -
Using Self-Efficacy to Assess the Readiness of Nursing Educators and Students for Mobile Learning
(International Review of Research on Open and Distance Education, 2012-06)The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what implications this technology has for their teaching and learning ... -
"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 ... -
The need for Open Educational Resources for ubiquitous learning
(Pervasive Computing Conference (PERCOM 2012), 2012)Open Educational Resources (OER) are important for the expansion of ubiquitous learning. Open licensing of learning components is a precondition for supporting anytime, anywhere learning, whether the lessons are arranged ... -
(Re)-conceptualizing design approaches for mobile language learning
(CALICO Journal, 2011-05)An exploratory study conducted at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada between 2007 and 2009 investigated language learning with mobile devices as an approach to augmenting ESP learning by taking learning outside the ... -
Mobile Self-Efficacy in a Canadian Nursing Education Program
(International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), 2012-03)The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what are the implications for their teaching and learning in practice ... -
Fun and Fear in Open Spaces
(2011-10-27)This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges ... -
AUPress: A Comparison of an Open Access University Press with Traditional Presses
(2011-08-30)This study is a comparison of AUPress with three other traditional (non-open access) Canadian university presses. The analysis is based on the rankings that are correlated with book sales on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. ... -
COI in Virtual Worlds - Survey
(2011-09-01)This is a copy of the online survey questionnaire used in a research study on COI indicators in virtual worlds. The results will be published in Fall 2011 issue of Journal of Online Learning and Teaching -
Vision for Change: a concept paper for the development of a virtual learning system
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Mobile Self-Efficacy in Canadian Nursing Education Programs - Replication
(2011-08-12)The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what are the implications for their teaching and learning in practice ... -
Report on UNESCO/COL Workshop New York June 18 - 19 2011
(2011-07-17)A description of a UNESCO Chair meeting of participants outlining the presentations and recording the goals and meeting outcomes. -
Three generations of distance education pedagogy
(2011-06-16)This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the pedagogy that defines ... -
Open Education Resources (OER) for assessment and credit for students project: Towards a logic model and plan for action
(Athabasca University, 2011-03)The Open Education Resource (OER) for assessment and credit for students initiative aims to develop a “parallel learning universe” to augment and add value to existing post-secondary education provision by creating flexible ...