Faculty Research & Publications: Recent submissions
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Women Entrepreneurs: Informal Learning and the Internet (Women Entrepreneurs' Perceptions of the Value of the Internet in Informal Learning - published title)
(Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2006)Thomas, P. & Moisey, S. (2006). Women entrepreneurs' perceptions of the value of the Internet in informal learning. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship 19 (2), 183–202. -
Students with disabilities: Their experience and success at Athabasca University
(IDCE/CADE Conference, 2002)Preliminary findings of a study examining the experience and success of Athabasca University students with disabilities, over a three-year period, are presented in this session. Student characteristics, including the ... -
Factors Affecting the Development and Use of Learning Objects
(The American Journal of Distance Education, 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 ... -
Community Building and Computer-Mediated Conferencing
(Journal of Distance Education, 2008)This study examined the relationship between community cohesion and computer-mediated conferencing (CMC), as well as other variables potentially associated with the development of a learning community. Within the context ... -
Fostering Self-help at a Distance for Adults with Vision Loss.
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An Integrated Instructional Design Model to Foster Lasting Behavior Change.
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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 ... -
Utilizing Disruptive Technologies in the University: Confessions of an Agent Provocateur
(AACE, 1999-06)This paper overviews the programming and facilities at a large research University that is designed to assist faculty in maximizing their effective use of educational technologies. Different programs developed by a ... -
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 ... -
Interview: With Farhad Saba and Rory McGreal, Wedemeyer Award Winners
(2009-02-18)Speaking Personally—With Farhad Saba and Rory McGreal, Wedemeyer Award Winners -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 feasibility of using mobile devices in nursing practice education
(International Association for Mobile Learning, 2008-10-08)This paper focuses on an exploratory evaluation of the use of m-learning in nursing education. We report on Stage 2 of the formative evaluation of a project to integrate mobile learning into the Bachelor of Science Nursing ... -
Research Experience and Agreement With Selected Ethics Principles From Canada’s Tri-Council Policy Statement—Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
(Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, 2004)An online survey was conducted of students, instructors, and researchers in distance education regarding principles for the ethical treatment of human research subjects. The study used an online questionnaire based on ... -
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, ... -
The Personalized System of Instruction: Review and Applications to Distance Education
(International Review Research in Distance and Open Learning, 2003)The present paper (a) outlines the basic features of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI); (b) provides a brief history of PSI; and (c) describes the application of PSI to distance education. Some common misconceptions ... -
Reflecting on CALL Effectiveness: Conditions & Implications
(Proceedings of TEDI Conference ‘Effective courses/Effective teaching at university: Reflection on practice/ Practice for reflection’ 1-2nd November 1999, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1999)This paper outlines the preliminary findings of an evaluation of learner use of software tools in a multimedia software package for teaching Indonesian listening comprehension and culture. This software package was introduced ...