Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2007-2008 by Issue Date
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Presentation of a paper, entitled "Sarah Bernhardt's Edmonton Apotheosis at the Empire"
(2006-12-14)In January 1913, at the age of 68, Sarah Bernhardt performed the fifth act of Dumas’ La Dame aux Camelias at the second Empire Theatre in Edmonton. She was on tour with Martin Beck’s New York company, providing a tragic ... -
Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-04-16)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
SunGard Summit 2008 Final Report
(2008-05-01)The SunGard Summit provides an opportunity for professionals to learn, discovery and explore the many ways that performance matters to the higher education institution, and join with other university colleagues, industry ... -
Implications for Professional Practice of Assessing Prior Learning.
(2008-05-22)How can we certify career practitioners for practice while at the same time respecting the rich and wide diversity of career-related experience that applicants bring to the certification process? This session starts by ... -
Serious Games
(2010-06-22)Serious games are computer games that train, educate and inform while entertaining. The serious games industry has been developing since 2000 but has only gained momentum since 2004. The lucrative games industry promised ... -
Experiential Learning and Distance Education: Expanding Learning Frontiers
(2010-06-22)e-Learning combines communication technologies (e.g., e-mail, Web, conferencing, and forum), pertinent learning theories, and real-world learning (experiential learning). This session will demonstrate how this bridging can ... -
"My Own Darling Mother": An Examination of a Mother-Daughter Relationship
(2010-06-22)This paper will examine the relationship between Gladys Arnold and her Mother, Florida Mae Arnold Sutcliffe. It is based on correspondence between Arnold and her mother that spans more than forty years. The paper will ... -
When a Guilty Verdict is in the Accused’s Best Interests
(2010-06-22)Lawyers’ ethical codes direct defence counsel to protect clients from criminal conviction. If acquittal isn’t possible, the minimal sentence should be secured. This paper argues that in specific case types neither an ... -
Forget Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: Learning to be a Writer in Papua New Guinea
(2010-06-22)For students and instructors at colonial universities, the choice and availability of books for instruction was of central importance. Was the curriculum to replicate that of metropolitan universities? Or to accommodate ... -
Developing a Framework to Evaluate Training Programs Provided by WHO: The Feasibility of Incorporating Social Justice, Cultural Competency, Social Justice and Investment
(2010-06-22)The paper describes a study that examined training programs at WHO. The feasibility of incorporating indicators of return on investment, social justice and cultural competency was explored. Every year increasing amounts ... -
Model-Driven Semantic Web Rule Engineering
(2010-06-22)Model Driven Engineering (MDE) and the Semantic Web represent two key technologies with a far-reaching vision for the future of software engineering and Web engineering. the main promise of MDE is to raise the level of ... -
Challenging the Toxic Footprint of Chemical Fertilizers, Soil Amendments and Sewage Sludge
(2010-06-22)While is a growing awareness of the environmental health impacts of pesticide exposure, many people around the world are unaware of the contaminants that are added to farmland. This is a serious food sovereignty issue and ... -
Conversational Agents and Learning Outcomes: An Experimental Investigation
(2010-06-22)An experimental approach was used to compare two types of web interfaces (standard web page vs. conversational agent) to course content on the life and theories of Jean Piaget. The content in each interface was identical ... -
Presented a three-part examination of theory and technique in psychodynamic psychotherapy entitled, “Malan, Winnicott, and the Psychodynamic Treatment of Trauma and Depression
(2010-06-22)This presentation is a three-part examination of theory and technique in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Part one examines Winnicott’s therapeutic consultation (Winnicott, 1971). He would meet with children and their parents ... -
1) Distance Education MBA Project Management Program: A Case Study and 2) Advice for New Engineering Faculty: Insights Gained from Faculty Development Programs
(2010-06-22)1) With its roots in systems engineering, project management is a relatively new discipline taught in the fields of Engineering, Business, Information Technology/ Management Information Systems, Computing Sciences, and ... -
Mobile Learning to Enhance Nursing Practice Education" and to participate in a panel presentation, “Appealing to Your Peers: An Editor\'s Forum on Publishing Your Research
(2010-06-22)1) Session T2-1A, Research Stream Richard Kenny, Caroline Park, Jocelyne Van Neste-Kenny, and Pamela Burton, Mobile Learning to Enhance Nursing Practice Education Abstract Wagner (2005) asks why, with the continuing ... -
Writing the Chinese Labor: Changes and Continuities in Labor Historiography
(2010-06-22)In the 1980s, most historical writings in China begun to take a new direction owing to domestic changes and outside influence. In comparison with other topics, however, studies of the pre-1949 Chinese labor seem to remain ... -
An Examination of the Use of Image in Traditional Knowledge Research with Northwestern Canadian First Nations”
(2010-06-23)Recording of images and words has been integral to the documentation of the knowledge and wisdom of traditional land-based lifeways. Although recording of film images and video has been widely employed in traditional ... -
Online Graduate Study Health Care Learners' Perceptions of Instructional Immediacy
(2010-06-23)Instructional immediacy is an established communication strategy that teachers can implement to create engaging learning environments. Yet, little is known about experiences distance education learners in graduate study ...