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Contribution of AU's e-Lab initiative to Open Access and OER Development
(2012-10-26)All universities have labs where research and teaching are conducted, where the physical tools of research and teaching are stored, where people get together to talk about their work and their ideas, and where the results ... -
The affordances of technology for student teachers to shape their teacher education experience
(CALICO: <https://calico.org/p-288-%20Calling%20on%20CALL.html>, 2007)This chapter describes a case study model to document the evolution over three semesters of a Masters course in technology and language learning for in-service teachers using a social constructivist pedagogical approach ... -
Vernacular Song, Cultural Identity, and Nationalism in Newfoundland, 1920-1955
(Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2006)Although a force in Newfoundland politics and culture, nationalist sentiment was not strong enough in 1948 to prevent confederation with Canada. The absence among many Newfoundlanders of a strong sense of belonging to an ... -
Wood Bison and the Early Fur Trade
(Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, 1993) -
The "Jarvis Proof": Management of Bison, Management of Bison Hunters, and the Development of a Literary Tradition
(Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, 1990) -
Designing the Undesignable: Social Software and Control
(2008-02-28)In this presentation, Dr. Jon Dron will discuss his recently published article, “Designing the undesignable: Social Software and Control”. In this article, Dr Dron states that social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging ... -
Problem Based Learning in Distance Education: A Case Study
(2008-02-28)Using Problem Based Learning (PBL) as teaching model is a growing phenomenon, as is using PBL in Distance Education and in social work. This study used Problem Based Learning in social work courses that were offered through ... -
Ontologies for Effective Use of Context in e-Learning Settings
(2008-02-28)This presentation will focus on an ontology-based framework aimed at explicit representation of context-specific metadata derived from the actual usage of learning objects and learning designs. The core part of the proposed ... -
Problems and Little Victories in Transcript Analysis
(2008-02-27)Transcript analysis requires researchers to recognize the value of CMC transcripts as a way of understanding the psychosocial dynamics of groups, and in the process to address issues of validity, ethics, and practice. This ... -
Instructor immediacy strategies to facilitate group work in online graduate study
(Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007)An increasing number of online graduate study programs require students to participate in collaborative work projects. And yet, educational research examining instructional strategies that facilitate learning in small ... -
Malawian health care workers perceptions of volunteer midwives
(Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice, 2007)This article discusses a qualitative research project that explored Malawian health care workers' feelings towards western trained volunteer midwives. The project was framed from a constructivist theoretical perspective ... -
Lunch with the theorists: A clinical learning activity
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Review of Placing the Social Economy by Amin, Cameron, Hudson in 2002
(2008-02-18)This book offers a challenging assessment of the merits of the social economy, with far-reaching implications for policy and attitudes towards the social economy. It analyses the performance of this sector in different parts ... -
Place-based Public Policy: Towards a New Urban and Community Agenda for Canada
(Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2005-03)To inform the efforts to address this new policy challenge now under way across Canada, this paper explores experiences in Britain, Europe and the United States. Governments there started earlier than Canada and have ... -
Resurrecting Napier's Bones
(2008-01-30)This is a demonstration of a set of rods which John Napier invented in the early seventeenth century to make multiplication easier and faster, annotated with short historical commentaries. -
Quiet Reflections: my 100+ best photographs
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Pravention von Karzinomerkrankungen durch Beta-Karotin
(Vitamine Mineralstoffe Spurenelemente, 1988)Die magliche Rollevon Beta-Karotin als krebsverhiitendem Nahrungsbestandteil wird erortert. Prospektive und retrospektive Studien am Menschen deuten sehr stark daraufhin. daB Beta-Karotin eine krebsverhiitende Wirkung ... -
Diet, blood lipids and coronary heart disease: current controversies
(South African Medical Journal, 1994) -
Role of selenium and cabbage in colon carcinogenesis in mice.
(Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1987)The influence of dietary selenium and cabbage on the formation of colon tumors in female Swiss mice treated with 1,2.dimethylhydrazine [(DMH) CAS: 540-73-8] was reported. Mice received a control diet (laboratory chow), ...