Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2007-2008: Recent submissions
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Libraries Providing Learner Support: The Collaboration Connection
(2010-06-23)This session will focus on the role that collaboration plays in supporting learners in a distance education environment. Collaboration can be found in many different guises in academe, and may involve faculty, staff and ... -
Implementation of Mobile Learning Using Smart Phones at an Open University: From Stylesheets to Proxies
(2010-06-23)This investigation includes a description of the mobile friendly implementation of both text and multimedia content using a smartphone (a Treo 650) from a content provider’s perspective. This study involves research into ... -
An Experiment in Female Viewers’ Attentiveness to Pro-Esteem Media Messages
(2010-06-23)The present investigation examined the extent to which commercial TV ads that promote a “pro-esteem” attitude regarding women’s appearance can improve female viewers’ appreciation of their personal beauty. It also questioned ... -
Adaptive Assessment in Web-Based Learning
(2010-06-23)Web-based assessment is used in different contexts with the aim to support students and help to make learning easier and more effective for them. Typically, the individual characteristics and needs of students are used to ... -
Lighting the Load: Nursing Support with Family Members of Critically Ill Adults
(2010-06-23)Results of a grounded theory from family members\' perspectives indicated that the critical illness of an adult relative launches family members into a cycle of \"work\" as they strive to \"get through\" the experience. ... -
Mystification et Scadndales littéraires en France et en Europe: de Michel-Ange à Calixthe Beyela
(2010-06-23)Le mot mystification apparaît pour la première fois en France 1768 dans un conte de Diderot s’intitulant “Mystification ou Histoire des portraits”. On le trouve dans la locution “tour joué par une société de mystificateurs”. ... -
Teaching that takes Complexity Seriously: Developing the Master Project Manager
(2010-06-23)Interest in project management is growing significantly and an industry is evolving around project management training and education (Price & Dolfi, 2004; Thomas, Mengel & Andres, 2004). Yet the trend towards professionalism ... -
The Right Circumstances for Multidisciplinary Research”
(2010-06-23)This presentation will review the early and recent literature relevant to multidisciplinary collaborative research teams, presenting the threats and barriers as well as the strengths and opportunities inherent in their ... -
More than Workers, Less than Bosses: Participatory Organizing in Five Buenos Aires Worker Coops
(2010-06-23)It’s impossible to understand how to organize cooperatively without focusing on ‘sexual difference’, the French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s category for what has not yet been thought within our symbolic structures, but ... -
Remembering our Future: A Practitioner’s Perspective on the ‘Crisis’ in Cultural Studies”
(2010-06-23)I teach in something called an open university. Probably this would not be possible were it not for the ground-breaking work of the early practitioners of British Cultural Studies. From its inception, cultural studies was ... -
Harvestmen of Canada
(2010-06-23)Harvestmen are the third largest Order of Arachnida. Biological information, other than morphology used for taxonomy, is very limited. Canada has at least 43 species, mostly Euponi (Caddidae 3, Phalangiidae 12, Sclerosomatidae ... -
1) Singing the Unspeakable: from ‘Sheath and Knife’ to ‘O Bondage, Up Yours! and 2) Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folksong Revival, 1889-1904
(2010-06-23)1) In their desire to shock their listeners, the British punk bands of the mid-late 1970s delighted in performing lyrics that extolled mob violence and sexual deviance. The Sex Pistols, the Clash, X-Ray Spex and Wire (among ... -
Cultural vs. Social Theory
(2010-06-23)This paper will explore the need for a distinctive methodological approach to interdisciplinary inquiry in the cultural as distinct from the social sphere. The challenge of multidisciplinary research within a complex nexus ... -
1) Historicizing Discourses of Individualism in Alberta, Canada and 2) Discourses of Youth and Sexuality in the Province of the ‘Severely Normal’: Alberta in the 1990’s
(2010-06-23)1) Historicizing Discourses of Individualism in Alberta, Canada Discourses of individualism dominate popular narratives of Alberta identity and identification. One enduring story is of Albertans as rugged pioneers ... -
Social Justice and Career Development Practices
(2010-06-23)Through attending this workshop, participants will gain knowledge about the concept of social justice, how this concept is connected to cultural diversity and systemic influences on career development, and how career ... -
Universalism as Production of the Same: St. Paul’s Path Through Law to Love
(2010-06-23)According to Giorgio Agamben, it is only through the lens of Walter Benjamin's "Messianic Marxism” that the truly revolutionary message of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans becomes apparent. In his The Time That Remains: A ... -
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 ... -
Expanding Role for a Distance Education Lab Management System: Athabasca University Experience with Reagents Database
(2010-06-23)Ongoing research and development of a distance education lab management system has revealed new and unexpected potential. After teaching science labs in a print based mode for the past thirty plus years, the transition ... -
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)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 ...