AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 101-120 of 2001
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Higher Education in Emergencies
(2016-08-30)Outlines contexts and strategies for providing opportunities for people in fragile context to access higher education. -
Commentary: Posing questions to support and challenge -- A guide for mentoring staff.
(The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2016)Staff development educators seeking to mentor health care practitioners towards thinking more critically may integrate a questioning approach into their teaching. However, posing questions that both support and challenge ... -
Synergia Institute – 3 Week Study Program - Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth: Pathways to a New Political Economy
(2016-06-28)Synergia will be organizing its first face-to-face program at the Synergia Summer Institute, September 4 - 23, 2016, at Monte Ginezzo in Tuscany. Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth - Pathways to a New Political Economy, ... -
Community Economic Development Opportunities in Alberta
(2016-06-25)The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) and Momentum, a Calgary, Alberta based community economic development (CED) organization, have issued this brief in Alberta. The brief is directed to the Alberta ... -
The Future of E-Learning
(2016-06-23)This is not the first attempt to predict the future of e-learning and our first confident prediction is that it will not be the last. Our intent in this chapter is to focus less on the digital technologies involved and ... -
Measuring the Size, Scope & Scale of the Social Enterprise Sector in Manitoba
(2016-06-15)This project surveyed social enterprises in Manitoba during the spring and summer of 2011 to develop clear indicators of their size, market activities, and socio‐economic contributions. In this study, a social enterprise ... -
Barriers to Participation in the Unleashing Local Capital Project
(2016-06-14)Unleashing Local Capital (ULC) was initiated and is managed by the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA). The project empowers rural Alberta communities to invest locally, direct their own economic development ... -
Unleashing Local Capital: Project Evaluation Report
(2016-06-14)Unleashing Local Capital (ULC) was initiated and is managed by the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA). The project empowers rural Alberta communities to invest locally, direct their own economic development ... -
Synergia Summer Institute – Monte Ginezzo, Tuscany - Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth: Pathways to a new political economy
(2016-06-10)Synergia will be organizing its first face-to-face program at the Synergia Summer Institute, September 4 - 23, at Monte Ginezzo in Tuscany. Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth - Pathways to a New Political Economy, is ... -
How Germany's State Development Bank Finances Energy Transition
(2016-05-24)In recognition of the long term consequences of relying on a fossil fuel economy, the German government launched a national plan in 2010 to transition away from non-renewable energy sources. The German state development ... -
Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability - Sellsheet
(2016-04-11)The book presented in this sellsheet and recently published by Athabasca University Press examines the potential of the social economy to transform the systems that make our current ways of life unsustainable. The book ... -
Resisting, Reaching Out and Re-imagining to Independence: LPN’s Transitioning towards BNs and Beyond
(International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2013-06)Little is known about the process of how nurses transition between vocational training and institutions of higher education. Understanding this process provides educators with the knowledge to support new groups of university ... -
Seasonal Affective Disorder: An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Approaches
(Depression Research and Treatment, 2015-11)Seasonal affective disorder or SAD is a recurrent major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern usually beginning in fall and continuing into winter months. A subsyndromal type of SAD, or S-SAD, is commonly known as ... -
Cynicism, the Heuristic Pharmakon
(English Studies in Canada, 2012-06)Cynicism can productively guide critical thinking about social relations under late neoliberal capital, in terms of power and ethics, in terms of knowledge and interpretation. A cynical perspective makes for a safe bet in ... -
Mobile Learning Innovation in Information Literacy Skills Training
(2015-10)The Mobile Information Literacy (MIL) tool is a user-friendly literacy app to help university students hone their information literacy skills through mobile technology. -
Using mobile technology to enhance undergraduate student digital information literacy skills: A Canadian case study
(IAFOR, 2015-07-07)Learning essential information literacy skills through the use of mobile phones is an innovative m-learning pilot project that was collaboratively undertaken in a Canadian university college over the course of two academic ... -
Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation: Examining a model for long-term housing afordability
(2015-06-03)This case study examines the Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation (Land Trust), a project being implemented in Vancouver, BC by a consortium of non-profit organizations, social finance1 institutions and the municipal ... -
Lost in social space: Information retrieval issues in Web 1.5
(Journal of Digital Information, 2009-01)This paper is concerned with the application of Web 2.0 technologies within a conventional institutional learning setting. After considering the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies vs Web 1.0 technologies and a framework ... -
‘It’s not only what we say but what we do’: Pay inequalities and gendered workplace democracy in Argentinian worker cooperatives.
(Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2014-07)In a study conducted by the author in 2006 of five mixed-sex, worker-led cooperatives in Buenos Aires, all of the workers in each of the coops were paid exactly the same. Five years later, only two of the worker cooperatives ... -
Invited Commentary on Reusing Online Resources, Chapter 19: Reuse of Resources within Communities of Practice, by Rachel Harris and Carol Higgison.
(Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2003)The Online Tutoring Skills (OtiS) e-workshop described in this chapter makes a significant contribution to knowledge of how to effectively design and manage virtual conferences or e-workshops. In addition they provide a ...