Academic and Professional Development Fund (APDF) Awards: Recent submissions
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Attend a three-week residency component for an MA degree.
(2011-11-03)The MA in Professional Communication program consists of two years of study with an annual three-week on-campus residency each year. Faculty with expert, real-world experience provide a solid foundation of advanced ... -
Accreditation, Benchmarks, and Competition: The ‘ABC’s’ of Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning
(2011-11-03)Communicating quality to various publics remains a challenge for higher education institutions engaged in open and distance learning. The quality assurance tools and approaches developed in the past decade have largely ... -
Chaos and Organizational Emergence: Towards Short Term Predictive Modeling to Navigate a Way Out of Chaos
(2011-11-03)Organizational emergence from chaotic events has often been described as unpredictable and random, at least when observed over the long term. Through a literature review this paper paves the path for the possible development ... -
Moral Distress within the Counselor - Supervisory Relationship
(2011-11-03)Moral distress, an ethical concern that runs across many health professions, is described as the experience of knowing the morally right thing to do, yet not doing it due to personal, social, or institutional constraints. ... -
Implementing Mobile Learning Across Cultures Globally: Opportunities and Challenges” and to present a poster entitled, "Athabasca University Mobile Learning: Delivering French Training Using Mobile Devices
(2011-11-02)Because of the rapid growth in the use of mobile technology globally, there is the potential to reach learners around the world to help them become more educated and to improve the quality of life. Mobile technology allows ... -
Seasonal Variation in Sexual Segregation in spider Monkeys (Ateles GeoffroyI Yucatanensis) at Runaway Creek Nature Preserve Belize
(2011-11-02)Sexual segregation, the separation of males and females socially or by habitat, has been recognized as a dimension of the socio-ecology of many vertebrates, but has not been quantified or systematically examined in primates. ... -
Luminescence profiling of postglacial eolian dunes in central and northern Alberta using a portable OSL reader
(2011-11-02)Regular luminescence dating is a lengthy procedure that entails elaborate sample preparation as well as multiple measurements to arrive at an age of a given sample. In practice, not all samples that may appear datable in ... -
Workers social wage struggles in the Great Depression and the era of Neo-Liberalism: International Comparisons
(2011-11-02)This paper looks globally at the ways in which workers attempted to win a degree of income stability through state guarantees of social entitlements in two periods: first, the Great Depression, when income stability via ... -
Artistic Pedagogical Technologies: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Online Nursing Education.
(2011-11-02)Introduction -Technology allows us to transcend time and space. Our world has become essentially without boundaries. Nursing education has changed, and will continue to evolve as technology advances. Already many nurses, ... -
Analyzing the Normative Nature of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
(2011-11-02)Recent writings have debated TJ’s normative nature. Some proffer TJ as the potentially dominant legal paradigm, capable of reinventing law and justice systems at their core. Critics assert that TJ: violates zealous ... -
Study of mobile collaborative information system using distributed database architecture
(2011-11-02)This paper examines the feasibility of communal information sharing between mobile devices using a distributed architecture for the underlying database topology, through research aimed at satisfying two primary objectives: ... -
The InterSSCT Model: Systemic Cross-Cultural School-Based Mental Health Programming
(2011-08-25)This paper describes the InterSSCT (“intersect”) approach to the delivery of school-based counselling services. The InterSSCT approach is a transcultural, transtheoretical, systemic heuristic to assess needs, plan, execute, ... -
Suzhi (Quality) Discourse and Laid-off Workers: The Role of Trade Unions in Post-Maoist China
(2011-08-25)Over the last 20 years, “suzhi” discourse pervaded government speeches, official media, and mainstream publications across China. This phenomenon attracted attention of western scholars, and their comments are mainly ... -
Creating an “Invitational Classroom” in the Online Educational Milieu
(2011-08-25)Parker Palmer, a scholar who studied effective face-to-face teaching, introduced the term the “invitational classroom” (1993, p. 71). In particular Palmer emphasized that “an air of hospitality” facilitated the inviting ... -
Academic Program Life Cycles: An Application of a Dynamic Growth Model
(2011-08-25)The basic mixed-influence diffusion growth model was extended by including economic factors (GDP, Recruitment Expenditures) deemed potentially to influence enrollment demand for academic programs. The regression analysis ... -
Beyond The Label: Triumphs, Trials and Tribulations of Women with ADHD in a Post Secondary setting
(2011-08-25)Recent literature has finally begun to acknowledge that women diagnosed with ADHD can experience unique challenges compared to their male counterparts. Mary and Bonnie will present case studies of women with ADHD in a ... -
Return of Student Assignments in Distance Education: Various Technologies to Reduce Turnaround Time
(2011-08-25)We evaluated five technologies that tutors could use to mark assignments and return the results to students electronically (i.e. by e-mail). The five technologies are: word processors, computer fax, scanners, graphics ... -
Attend the Summer Publishing Workshops
(2011-08-25)Copy Editing and Proofreading: (2 days) This two-day workshop is ideal for anyone wanting an introduction to the world of publishing or communications, or for anyone currently called upon to improve the writing of others ... -
What we know and where we’re going: In medias res on self-representation and identity in university use of ePortfolios
(2011-08-25)ePortfolios are slowly gaining credibility in Canadian universities as useful vehicles for a number of learning activities. In both graduate and undergraduate programs, ePortfolios are used to house and share the repertoire ... -
Reaching for a Good Life – An Application of the Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation with Men who are Abusive in Intimate Relationships
(2011-08-25)Reaching for a Good Life (RFGL) is a program for men who are abusive within an intimate relationship. RFGL has 4 components: a weekly orientation group, individual intake interview, the 16 week group program and the exit ...