Browsing Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2007-2008 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
On the Notion ‘Practical Ethics’
(2010-06-23)Although I am concerned to develop the idea of practical ethics into a more general theory, I will restrict my focus on the distinction between practical ethics and applied ethics. The first part of the paper summarizes ... -
The Home Office: Dream, Reality, and In-Between”
(2010-06-23)With rapid advances in information and telecommunication technologies, home-based telecommuting has become quite popular in recent years, especially among knowledge workers. Proponents claim several benefits for the ... -
Feminist Family Therapy: The Process of Writing a Women’s Studies Correspondence-Based Distance Course
(2010-06-23)This presentation will explore the process of writing a women’s studies correspondence-based distance course on Feminist Family Therapy, the third course written by these two authors. Along with the usual challenges of ... -
1) Reclaiming the Self: An Alternative Model to Professional Development and 2) Career Practitioner Education: Past, Present, Future
(2010-06-23)1) What started as an attempt to establish a chapter of the CDAA evolved into something quite different. Not only did a chapter not become established but no guest speakers appeared in the 3-year period the group has been ... -
Computer Science: Where (and why) have all the women gone?
(2010-06-23)Like other post-secondary institutions in North America, Athabasca University has not been successful in either recruiting or retaining women to its Computing and Information Science programmes. The gradual decline in ... -
When Retailers are More Powerful
(2010-06-23)The long-term effects of promotions on sales are increasingly linked to the supposed shift of economic power within channels from manufacturers to retailers. However, formal knowledge about how they influence channel ... -
Making Content Connections: issues in the use of Print Versus Digital Course Content
(2010-06-23)Recent program changes in an online graduate program created questions regarding the delivery of materials in distance education programs. One hundred and thirty-seven students responded to a survey regarding the difference ... -
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 ... -
Toward a Cree Understanding of Colonialism: A Teaching Model
(2010-06-23)It is a common truth that in order to understand were we are at today we need to understand how we got here—we need to understand our history. More than ever our youth need the understanding and empowerment that comes from ... -
The Heart of the Matter: Connecting with Clients on Antidepressants
(2010-06-23)This presentation is specifically intended for all counselors, in all practice setting, that work with depressed clients who take antidepressant medication or are potential candidates for this type of medication. However, ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)My level of involvement include attending pre-forum workshops as listed above where those institutional and enrolment management topics would be taught, conference sessions where papers on the above-listed topics would be ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)AU Library is currently implementing ERM as part of our Library system. Attendance and moderating the roundtable will help me know what is going on in other places and enable me to make changes in our system as ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)Canadian Association of University Business Officials annual conference. I have recently taken on the position of Administrative Officer for the MAIS program and, as such, this is my relevent Canadian professional ...