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Landscape-Scale Prioritization Process for Private Land Conservation in Alberta
(2013-11-12)
There are 12 conservation land trust organizations
(CLTOs) in the province of Alberta, Canada that actively
steward land. Together they have protected over 1.09 million
hectares of land. Using in-depth interview data ...
Avatars go to Law School: Digital Standardized (and not so Standard) Clients for Law School Teaching
(2010-12-15)
Standardized clients have been a feature of medical schools for years. Digital technologies now offer the opportunity to create them in interactive form as avatars. In addition, advances in semantic computing now allow ...
The New Old Lawyer: How Lawyers have Adapted to Mediation to Preserve their Power, Income, and Identity
(2011-05-08)
This paper outlines the evolution of mediation in some common law jurisdictions from an idea most lawyers dismissed to a practice most now use. It highlights the attitudes and actions of lawyers as they have adjusted their ...
Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education, Part II
(2014-02-06)
Earlier research found only about half of 423 university psychology students correctly answered four questions involving recognizing plagiarism, and only a minority was able to rephrase a passage without producing plagiarized ...
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
(2013-03-05)
This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half ...
Music preferences and young people's attitudes towards spending and saving.
(2010-12)
We aimed to find patterns among young people’s music preferences in relation to
their attitudes towards saving or spending money. Previous research found that
certain music genres (e.g. rap and dance) are associated with ...
Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital.
(2011-06)
After four decades of research, scholars of happiness continue to debate its
causes. While it is generally agreed that a combination of internal and external factors play
a role, predicting happiness well remains a ...
Debate as a Teaching Strategy in Online Education: A Case Study.
(2011)
This reflective case study was based on our independent use of the debate as an online
instructional approach and our shared interest in teaching strategies. In an interdisciplinary manner, using narrative inquiry and ...
How well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism?
(IRRODL, 2014)
This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly ...