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L1 and L2 Students Together: Online Education to the Rescue
(2013-03-05)This presentation explores a solution to the problem of L1 and L2 students taking the same course while addressing the specific needs of both. We examine the data from three courses, offered asynchronously online with both ... -
Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice
(2010-07-14)Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice It has been suggested that over the next eighteen months CASAE members review the 30 years of CASAE existence and as part of that ... -
Landscape and Ethnoecology - an Ethnobiological View
(2011-06-29)Landscape is often taken for granted in ethnobiological work, treated as setting, described in geographic or biological terms. Landscape is productive to examine as the (literal) foundation of ethnobiological work: where ... -
Large Scale Deployment of Tablet Computers in K-12 Schools in Brazil
(2014-01-16)Different sectors of the society of many countries have been demanding for significant improvements in their education systems and teaching and learning practices in recent years (Keller, 2008; Latchem & Hanna, 2001). The ... -
Leadership in Open and Distance Higher Education
(2009-10-01)Distributed leadership is a valuable concept in terms of aligning leadership theory to changing conditions in post-industrial society. Changing economic, global and demographic formulations certainly play a role in ... -
Leading Pedagogical Change
(2014-01-16)According to Keller (2008), changes in many things including technology “constitutes [sic] the most consequential set of changes in society since the late nineteenth century, when the nation went from a largely domestic, ... -
Libraries Providing Learner Support: The Collaboration Connection
(2010-06-23)This session will focus on the role that collaboration plays in supporting learners in a distance education environment. Collaboration can be found in many different guises in academe, and may involve faculty, staff and ... -
Lighting the Load: Nursing Support with Family Members of Critically Ill Adults
(2010-06-23)Results of a grounded theory from family members\' perspectives indicated that the critical illness of an adult relative launches family members into a cycle of \"work\" as they strive to \"get through\" the experience. ... -
Limiting facades of conformity and its impact: The role of supportive employment relationships
(2012-11-15)This research investigated whether perceived organizational support and leader member exchange affect employees’ use of facades of conformity, and how facades of conformity affect employee outcomes such as emotional ... -
Listening with mobile devices: An ecological approach to context-embedded learning
(2013-07-09)This presentation discusses a design-based research (DBR) study into effective design for teaching listening in the real world using mobile devices. An emergent theory of learning, ecological constructivism (EC), was chosen ... -
Location-Based Learning Management System for Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2014-01-16)E-learning and distance learning are all forms of learning that take place outside of a traditional learning environment and can be alternatives for learners who are not able to study in a traditional environment for various ... -
Luminescence profiling of postglacial eolian dunes in central and northern Alberta using a portable OSL reader
(2011-11-02)Regular luminescence dating is a lengthy procedure that entails elaborate sample preparation as well as multiple measurements to arrive at an age of a given sample. In practice, not all samples that may appear datable in ... -
Maintenance of Physical Activity in Breast Cancer Survivors after a Randomized Trial
(2010-06-23)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the longer term effects of pedometers and print materials on changes in physical activity (PA) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in breast cancer survivors that ... -
Making Content Connections: issues in the use of Print Versus Digital Course Content
(2010-06-23)Recent program changes in an online graduate program created questions regarding the delivery of materials in distance education programs. One hundred and thirty-seven students responded to a survey regarding the difference ... -
Making History Meaningful: The German Plays of Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen
(2010-06-23)Alberta playwrights Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen both explore the tragic consequences of a political expropriation of the creative imagination for nationalistic ends. Their “German” plays interrogate history in terms ... -
Making Inequality Visible in Management Education, the Academy and the Global Workplace
(2013-07-09)Neoliberalism The neoliberal argument is essentially an economic and political philosophy advocating free markets, deregulation, privatization of public assets, more unencumbered free trade, and less government “interference” ... -
Management & Leadership Training for Law Enforcement
(2010-04-14)A pilot online management and leadership course was delivered to various law enforcement personnel, i.e. police officers, sheriffs, and corrections officers. Prior to the course, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, ... -
Many Views of Athabasca University
(2010-06-23)Due to the increasingly competitive atmosphere in higher education, providing excellent service to students is more important than ever. Institutions must provide good services that initially attract students to their ... -
Markers for Navigating the New Waters of Post-Secondary Education
(2009-06-12)Alberta’s post-secondary system is constantly changing, and students have more choice than ever before in choosing a post-secondary program. They also have increasing options for where their studies and previous experience ...