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Vorkuta: Three Chapters in the Making of a Working Class
(2014-01-16)
In the 1930s, Vorkuta in Siberia emerged as one of the Soviet Union’s principle sources of coal. It was also the principal site of the final horror of Stalin’s extermination of the politicized workers who had raised the ...
English Proficiency and Participation in Online Discussion for Learning
(2014-01-16)
Does English proficiency affect participation in online discussion? This study polled 14 students from a postgraduate online course that require online discussion. The students are divided into groups according to their ...
The ‘success’ of formal diversion programs for youth: Understanding why alternatives to court are so popular among youth and law enforcement.
(2014-01-16)
The diversion of young people from the traditional court process has been supported for many years. Much of the research on diversion policies and program has focused exclusively on how diversion programs operate, such ...
Representing Race in the Public Sphere – Contrasting the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) with research presented via Edmonton Public Library Theatre
(British Sociological Society Annual Conference, in
Leeds University, UK, April 23-25, 2014, 2014-03-11)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which “race” or ethnicity has been, and can be, represented in Canada and to make a number of other observations that challenge the “Central/Eastern” representation of ...
Preparing Learners for Online Doctoral Study: Readiness App
(2014-02-06)
The origins of the doctoral degree can be traced back to guilds in the Middle Ages in Europe. There are now a variety of doctoral degrees such as professional, applied, practitioner, and clinical. Completion routes may be ...
An Interactive OER Course Development at Athabasca University based on ODL Principles
(2014-02-06)
Failure rates in first year calculus courses are high in most post-secondary institutions across North America and other parts of the world. This Inukshuk-funded open education project involved the development of five ...
The Accumulation of Capital” – Economic Underpinnings of Rosa Luxemburg’s Democratic Socialism
(2014-02-06)
Left critics of the statist policies pursued by social democrats and Soviet communists often drew inspiration from Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of union and party bureaucracies and her uncompromised commitment to the ...
Causes of Banking Crises: Deregulation, Credit Booms and Asset Bubbles, Then and Now
(2014-02-06)
We examine similarities in the run-up to banking crises using two essential criteria for their predictability: i) the percentage of a specified number of years prior to a crisis correctly called; and ii) the percentage of ...
The utility of portable optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) readers in providing temporal contexts in clastic depositional systems: opportunities in geomorphology
(2014-01-16)
The recent development ofa functional portable optically stimulated luminescence (POSL) readers has ushered in new opportunities in geomorphology. Although POSL readers do not necessarily provide absolute ages as in regular ...
Connecting Learners in Self-Paced Undergraduate Study: Practitioner Cases
(2014-01-16)
Enabling students to take responsibility for and make choices about aspects of their learning is an important affordance of distance education. Distance learners determine the time and place for their studies—those engaged ...