Academic and Professional Development Fund Report 2007-2008: Recent submissions
Now showing items 81-100 of 101
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1) Gaining New Ground: Creating A Unique Approach to NP Education, 2) What’s all the Fuss About? Discussing the Doctorate of Nursing Practice and 3) Innovative Independent Practice: Carving a New Path
(2010-06-23)1) NP educational programs have evolved across the country attracting RNs eager for the challenge and professional growth that the new role can offer. In the relative infancy of this role comes the challenge of balancing ... -
Wild Imaginings: Discourses and Representations of Nature from the Alberta Report
(2010-06-23)Alberta Report, founded by ultra-conservative Ted Byfield, was a weekly publication that espoused political and social conservatism and provided a training ground for a generation of conservative journalists. Byfield saw ... -
The Primordial Link: HRM and Workplace Learning
(2010-06-23)Purpose: Larger social networks (SN) and greater perceptions of social support (SS) may provide individuals with greater resources and opportunities to be active, instilling a higher sense of control over the behavior. The ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...