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Avatars and Open Courseware in Distance Education Freshman Physics
(2012-04-04)
Athabasca University has engaged thousands of students in for-credit, non-calculus freshman physics over the past 15 years, a success in part attributable to innovative use of home laboratory technology. In now offering ...
Addressing the Landgrab in Southern Ontario
(2012-04-04)
Globally, there is a growing landgrab by investors and foreign countries of prime farmland. NGOs such as Grain and the National Farmers Union have documented the landgrab throughout the world and within Canada. This paper ...
Overview of Modern Higher Education Management in Mainland China (1949-2010)
(2012-04-04)
The promulgation of the "Outline of China's National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020)" in July, 2010, opens a new page for higher education in China. To evaluate the significance ...
Wēijī : East Asian Mothering
(2012-04-04)
This conference presentation will highlight the conference theme of exploring motherhood and mothering in a global context. Wēijī represents the Chinese symbol for “crisis” and “opportunity” whereby reversing the characters ...
The Structure of Belief
(2012-04-04)
Beliefs play a significant role in most of the work we do with clients as career practitioners. This session will examine beliefs and belief structures historically and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint although the main ...
Attend Sungard Summit 2012: Where Learning Happens
(2012-04-04)
Political Economy and History – the Case of Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital
(2012-11-15)
Since her assassination, Rosa Luxemburg has been treated as an icon while her political and theoretical work is largely forgotten, neglected, or rejected. Recently, though, David Harvey used her ideas on capitalist expansion ...
‘Derrida’s “Economimesis’ and Laruelle’s Onto-Photo-Logical Critique of Photography Theory
(2012-11-15)
In a key passage in his Copy, Archive, Signature, Derrida reflects on the hinge between the active and passive senses of the rhetorical trope of invention as it bears on the photographic act: “There is a concept of photography ...
Work, Learning, Inequality and the Academy
(2012-11-15)
This paper will look at the connections between work, learning and inequality and apply these understandings to the academy as a worksite. (Theorizing from the literature)
Introduction
The connection between “work and ...