Academic and Professional Development Fund (APDF) Awards: Recent submissions
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International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Accreditation course
(2011-05-17)Executive Accreditation course towards achieving the designation as an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC). -
Something Old, Something New: Reflective Journals and Social Networking
(2011-05-17)The practice of writing journals is a tried and tested method for developing student writing skills and reflection on the process of writing. With current technology, this method can be updated and given a new dimension ... -
Cloud Computing-based IT Solutions For Organizations with Multiregional Branch Offices
(2011-05-05)One of the most significant phenomena of the new century is globalization. As business goes global, multiregional branch offices are needed and networked computing and information services must then be established for those ... -
Workers Against Austerity – Lessons from Canada’s ‘Days of Action,’ 1995-1998
(2011-05-03)Workers versus Austerity: Lessons from Canada's Days of Action, 1995-1998 The Great Recession has left in its wake an expected "age of austerity" where the deficits accumulated to stave off economic collapse, are being ... -
Embodied and Embedded Intelligence: Actor Agents on Virtual Stages
(2011-05-03)In this presentation, we will argue that Actor Agents, a type of Animated Pedagogical Agent with embodied conversational intelligence, are well positioned to act in virtual environments with embedded intelligence and that, ... -
Silent Historiographers: Memories of Struggle, Scripts of Resistance
(2011-05-03)The main objective of this paper is to draw attention to the possibilities in testimonials to strengthen the decolonizing vein in postcolonial culture critique. With elements of oral history, autobiography, life story, ... -
Barriers to Education: Access to Funding for Students with Disabilities
(2011-05-03)Three main barriers to post-secondary education for students with disabilities: physical accessibility, financial issues, and stereotypical attitudes have been identified in the literature (Canadian Council on Learning, ... -
EDPS 672 Issues in Postsecondary Education
(2011-05-03)This course examines the challenges and opportunities posed by the complex environments in which postsecondary institutions operate. Various theoretical lenses will be used to study such aspects of colleges and universities ... -
Creating a Social Support Environment
(2011-05-03)Join a team of 1,600 IT service and technical support MVPs as they face off against today’s most pressing service and support challenges. Only HDI’s IT service and technical support conference, with its expansive resources, ... -
Defining the Vision for the Next 100 Years
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1. Design, technology choices and interactive processes in an online doctoral program (poster
(2011-03-30)1. (Poster) Athabasca University’s first fully online doctoral program is now in its third year of teaching and implementation. This program, initially in Distance Education, involves four content courses and two research ... -
AUGO II: A comprehensive subauroral zone observatory
(2011-03-30)A new geophysical observatory dedicated to the study of the auroral borealis will be built 25 km southwest of the town of Athabasca, in Alberta, Canada. It is anticipated to see first light in the winter of 2010/2011 and ... -
Student Publications at Athabasca University
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13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference
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Mobile Self Efficacy in Canadian Nursing Education Programs
(2011-03-30)The purpose of this study was to assess the self-efficacy of nursing faculty and students related to their potential use of mobile technology and to ask what are the implications for their teaching and learning in practice ... -
Modeling Service Choreographies with Rule-enhanced Business Processes
(2011-03-30)The research community has so far mainly focused on the problem of modeling of service orchestrations in the domain of service composition, while modeling of service choreographies has attracted less attention. The following ... -
Multipoint Observations of the Large Substorm Associated with the Galaxy 15 Anomaly
(2011-03-30)On April 5, 2010 around 09 UT, the NOAA Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) observed a large reconfiguration of the magnetospheric magnetic field in the midnight to dawn local time sector. Specifically, ... -
CAMEG – A Multi-Agent Based Context-Aware Mobile Educational Game for On-the-Job Training
(2011-03-30)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”. ... -
Demography, Diet and Range Size in a Population of Black-handed Spider Monkey's
(2011-03-30)#1 Studies of wild Ateles geoffroyi yucatensis have occurred, or are ongoing in Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, but no sites have been established in Belize. Across study sites, group composition, average sub-group ... -
Sea Songs from Two Oceans: A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Songs from the Coasts of Yorkshire and British Columbia
(2011-03-30)Yorkshire folksong collector Frank Kidson did most of his fieldwork during the last two decades of the Victorian era. The fruits of his labours during the 1880s found expression in his pioneering collection Traditional ...