Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund (APDF) Awards by Issue Date
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Presentation of a paper, entitled "Sarah Bernhardt's Edmonton Apotheosis at the Empire"
(2006-12-14)In January 1913, at the age of 68, Sarah Bernhardt performed the fifth act of Dumas’ La Dame aux Camelias at the second Empire Theatre in Edmonton. She was on tour with Martin Beck’s New York company, providing a tragic ... -
Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-04-16)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
SunGard Summit 2008 Final Report
(2008-05-01)The SunGard Summit provides an opportunity for professionals to learn, discovery and explore the many ways that performance matters to the higher education institution, and join with other university colleagues, industry ... -
Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-05-22)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
Implications for Professional Practice of Assessing Prior Learning.
(2008-05-22)How can we certify career practitioners for practice while at the same time respecting the rich and wide diversity of career-related experience that applicants bring to the certification process? This session starts by ... -
Food Adverts on Children's Programs on TV in South Africa
(2008-06-09)Research in the U.S.A. since the early 1990s has shown that adverts that appear on children’s programs on TV are the antithesis of the recommended diet. They are mainly for fast foods and for foods rich in sugar and fat. ... -
Staff Utilization of Explicit Hope Facilitation Strategies in Long Term Care
(2008-06-09)Research offers compelling evidence of the pivotal role that hope plays in health and personal well-being outcomes for individuals who are acutely, chronically or terminally ill. Many individuals who are living in long ... -
Phone Numbers: In Between Private, Public, Personal, Pedagogical, Political Calls
(2008-06-09)The number and choice of online and distance graduate education programs in Canada is growing. Literature of this emerging field debates the quality of programs and delivery strategies to ensure that students feel connected ... -
Relationships between Breweries and Retailers in Cameroon
(2008-06-09)The aim of this paper is to examine how the use of various influence strategies affect retailers’ economic and non economic satisfaction in the brewery industry in Cameroon. The Cameroon brewery industry consists of a few ... -
New Linkages: Market Based Domestic Policy Reform and the Triggering of Obligations under International Trade Law
(2008-06-09)The paper argues that the ostensible exemption of domestic social policy fields from the application of international trade agreements actually results in the introduction of two powerful structures potentially constraining ... -
Implications for Professional Practice of Assessing Prior Learning
(2008-06-09)How can we certify career practitioners for practice while at the same time respecting the rich and wide diversity of career-related experience that applicants bring to the certification process? This session starts by ... -
Muskwa-Kechika Artist Camp Collection
(6th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VI), 2008-08-23)Athabasca University (AU), located in Northern Alberta, Canada, is partnering with Writing on the Ridge (WOTR), an arts organization, to promote wilderness preservation and to raise awareness about one of North America’s ... -
Have We Got an Adult Education Model for PLAR? Paper presentation at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASE) Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31 - June 3, 2008
(2008-12-16)Introduction and problem Having recently reviewed the edited collection by Per Anderson and Judy Harris Re-theorising the Recognition of Prior Learning (2006, Leicester, UK: NIACE) I was left wondering what specifically ... -
E-Tools and Teaching ESL Through Distance Education, paper presentation at the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) Canada 2008 Conference, May 29-31, 2008, Moncton, NB
(2008-12-16)1. Symposium: Technology is becoming increasingly important in all language learning; in distance education, it plays a vital role. Athabasca University staff employ a variety of e-tools to help deliver effective language ... -
The Redneck Underbelly: The Alberta Advantage and the Cycle of Boom, Bust and Echo! Co-Presented Paper with Gloria Filax at the 6th International Conference on the International Council for Canadian Studies, May 27-29, 2008, Ottawa, ON
(2008-12-16)A proliferation of popular and academic books and articles has appeared over the past few years focused on Alberta. The celebration of Alberta’s centennial as a province within Canada, the current economic boom, and the ... -
Energy, Security and Geopolitics: Could Someone Please Tell Us What We Mean? Co-presented paper (with Jose Marroquin), to the International Association of Energy Economists Asian Regional Conference, Perth, Australia, November 5-7, 2008
(2008-12-17)‘Energy Security’ could be the most oft-used term in our current political-economic lexicon, but it could also be the most poorly defined. Frequently appearing in close company with another notorious vagary – geopolitics ... -
Moving Mountains: Post-War Painting and Tourism in Banff National Park, presented at the 10th World Leisure Congress, October 6 - 10, 2008
(2008-12-22)The Banff School of Fine Arts was established in 1933 and for the next several decades offered summer adult education programs in the tradition of rational recreation projects. The role of the Banff School in structuring ... -
NetPicoMAG: a low-cost fluxgate magnetometer for teaching and research
(2009-01-12)Abstract of paper/presentation: netPicoMAG is a compact, low cost, networked fluxgate magnetometer. It is capable of detecting magnetic field vectors at 1 nanotesla, 1 sample per second resolution, and transmits real-time ... -
“Minimizing Attrition: Strategies for Assisting Students who are Considering Withdrawal”
(2009-01-12)This presentation focuses on strategies to assist online graduate students who are considering withdrawing from their programs of study. It is based on research on factors influencing students’ decisions to withdraw (Perry ...