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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. ...
Mobile Learning-Student Perspectives
(2010-11-17)
The use of mobile learning (m-learning) to deliver course content and/or learning activities, is a relatively new instructional design strategy, currently gaining momentum in postsecondary and distance education institutions. ...
Mediating Student-Academic Interaction Through Contact Centres in Distance Education
(2010-11-17)
This study investigates the pedagogical issues that arise from mediating student-academic interaction through a contact centre within university distance education. It is not easy for educational organizations to design ...
Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal Learners in Northern Communities
(2010-11-30)
This presentation will report the research findings of the Alberta-North/Athabasca University research project, entitled “Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining Aboriginal and Low-Literacy Learners in Northern Communities”. ...
Slipping the Chains of Credentialism
(2010-11-30)
The assessment of prior learning (APL) has normally been associated with the attainment of credentials. Those of us involved in APL have always known that there is far more prior learning present with any learner than can ...
An Intelligent System for Generating and Managing FAQs in Online Education
(2010-06-23)
With the development of the Web, online course delivery is gaining its popularity everyday. But no matter how courses delivered, there is one thing that never changes in education. For students, they will have to get all ...
Back to the future: What’s Next for the Online Community of Inquiry Model?
(2010-06-23)
The academic and social domains are represented in the online community of inquiry model by three elements called presences: Social, cognitive and teaching presence. To date, much research has been done on this model, yet ...
An Italian Jesuit in Canada: Faith and the Imagination in the 'Breve Relatione' of 1653
(2010-06-23)
Bressani published his Breve Relatione in Italian in 1653.
He had spent the years 1642 to 1650 in New France as a Jesuit missionary. As a Jesuit he was aware of the expansion of the European powers in the New World: ...
Economic and Social Satisfaction in Marketing Channels: The Impact of Influence Strategies in an African County
(2010-06-17)
This article seeks, among others, to empirically validate the theory proposed by Geyskens et al. (1999) on the impact of influence strategies on economic and social satisfaction in the context of an African Country. New ...
The Struggle for Rights at Work: Electrical Workers, Shop-Floor Action and Industrial Legality, 1940s-1960s
(2010-06-23)
One of the central elements of post-World War II Canadian labour legislation is the ban on strikes and lockouts during the term of a collective agreement. Unions and employers are expected to settle any disputes over ...