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Speaking For Freedom, Normalizing the Net
(2012-01-24)
An enduring perspective on the impact of digital technologies argues that these technologies can expand freedom and re-invigorate democracy. Yet, there has always been a contrary, more pessimistic perspective, that ...
Stage Predicting Student Stay Time Length on Webpages of Online Courses Based on Grey Models
(2012-01-24)
To provide adaptive learning, an e-learning system needs to gather information about what student state is while the student learns online course. A student state index is the length of time the student stays on a webpage ...
Back to the future: Who cares about the NetGen if mobile technology can help the Matures?
(2012-01-24)
On a daily basis new applications for mobile technology are being developed and released which in turn offer increased mLearning possibilities and support to various groups of people. In South Africa, the rate of adoption ...
Athabasca University Mobile Learning: Delivering French Training Using Mobile Devices (Poster)
(2012-01-24)
The poster illustrates how iPhone technology can be used to deliver French language training and engage students with interactive learning content. Five interactive lessons teaching basic French grammar and vocabulary ...
A Framework for Integrating Motivational Techniques in Technology Enhanced Learning
(2012-01-24)
Motivation is a key factor in education. While there exist some educational system that consider techniques for motivating students, these systems implement only one or few techniques and assume that the respective ...
Road to Mobile Learning
(2012-01-24)
To meet the needs of students, and fulfill Athabasca University’s mission to remove barriers to learning, Athabasca University (AU) Library has initiated a number of mobile learning projects. The poster “Road to Mobile ...
Fall of the House of Euro – German capitalism and the long search for a ‘spatial fix
(2012-11-15)
From the standpoint of capitalism in Germany, the European Union and the Eurozone are but the two most recent stations on the long pilgrimage to find a spatial fix, attempts to alleviate the perennial problem of a ...
Mobilization of Workers: Labour Education and Publication in Chinese Revolution: 1919-1927
(2012-11-15)
Chinese proletariat was young and numerically weak in the 1920s. These workers nevertheless played a decisive role in the great strike wave culminating in the mid-1920s. Western scholars have provided conflicting narratives ...
Challenges to Connection- Changes in the Land and in Ways of Life in Kaska Dena Territory
(2012-11-15)
The relationship to land is crucial for the well being of Kaska people. To maintain connection to the land, skills and language are both needed. Much knowledge about the land and how to live well on the land and with other ...
Tales from the Alberta Triangle: The United States, China and the Evolving Dynamics of Canadian Energy Exports
(2012-11-15)
Canadian natural gas has been exported to the United States, in fits and starts, since the beginning of the 20th Century. Depending on whom you ask, the relationship today is either a testament to faith in open markets, ...