AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1601-1620 of 2001
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Seeking the Recipe for Success in Distance Education: Lessons from a Nutrition Course
(2006)There is much debate as to how best to exploit the potential of the internet when designing distance education (DE) courses; the "formula for success" is still to be determined. In this Darwinian struggle for "market share" ... -
From Estrangement To Engagement: Information And Communication Technologies For Strong Democracy
(2007-10-02)This research essay is a critical review and synthesis of extensive research on e-democracy (electronic democracy) as a means to strengthen the democratic relationship between citizens, their government and elected officials. ... -
Project A3-2007 The Non-Profit Sector Capital Market in B.C. and Alberta
(2007-09-20)This research project will explore the non-profit sector capital market in B.C. and Alberta with a focus on the role that this market can play in developing, supporting and strengthening social economy organizations. -
Project C8 - Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis Framework
(2007-09-18)This research project will develop a paper examining the current state of development in SROI (social return on investment) analysis with a view of developing a suitable framework that would help measure the financial/economic ... -
SERC 3 WorkPlan – 2007-2008 Year
(2007-09-18)SERC 3 has chosen to elevate key questions as being central to the strategic vision it advances for its work. Together they speak to context and how we understand the social economy – its drivers, the obstacles it faces ... -
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
(2007-09-18)How the two terms community economic development and community development finance are defined is crucial to the construction of any development system, whether it be geographic or functional in scope. What the terms are ... -
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(2007-09-18)In recent years, social science research has increasingly acknowledged the role of the social economy in building sustainable communities, and, around the world, co-operatives are recognized as major actors in the social ... -
The Emilian Model - Profile of a Co-operative Economy
(2007-09-18)Restakis, John John is a co-investigator in the BALTA node and he is the director of a partner organization, the BC Co-operative Association. Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy that is among the most economically ... -
Online Conferences for Professional Development
(Information Age Publishing, 2002)Online conferences (OCs) offer a compelling set of economic and pedagogical benefits for teaching, learning, personal, and professional development. In this chapter, we provide examples and a model to guide development ... -
Faculty Adoption of Teaching and Learning Technologies: Contrasting Earlier Adopters and Mainstream Faculty
(Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1998)The adoption of teaching and learning technologies is an innovation that challenges the structure, culture and practice of modern research universities. This paper documents quantitatively and qualitatively the attitudes, ... -
A Typology of Learning Object Repositories
(2007-09-06)In this paper, the investigator attempts to create a comprehensive listing of learning object repositories (LORs) and address the following research questions. 1. What types of LOR are available on the Internet? 2. What ... -
Rural Sociological Barriers to Adoption of Conservation and Food safety in Rural Alberta
(2007-08-28)This project was premised on the belief that adoption of conservation and food safety beneficial management practices is affected not only by economic factors, but also by a host of other socio-psychological variables. ... -
Tracking Progress - Some Issues and Tools
(2007-08-21)Tracking progress is easy to say and hard to do. It becomes even harder in an era when tracking progress and accountability have often been morphed into rigid patterns of bean counting. People working in the trenches are ... -
Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy
(2007-08-21)The idea of a web of supports being of central importance to the revitalization and renewal of a particular place, or to the development of social enterprises, has been amply illustrated in several of the contributions ... -
The rise of the telecommuter and the fall of community: False promises
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Ontario's Distance Education Network: Contact North/Contact Nord
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Higher education evolution: Individual freedom afforded by educational social software
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Space Physics: Aurora Borealis
(2007-08-13)Cluster data was used to examine the magnetospheric boundary and more particularly the tail. Harris sheet fits were done in a dynamic fashion that allows flapping to be quantified. -
Improving Learner Motivation Through
(2007-08-03)The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between the instructional design methodology used to design and develop a distance learning product and learner motivation. Evidence from readings consulted in ... -
Libraries Providing Learner Support: The Collaboration Connection
(University of Wisconsin Madison, 2007)Collaboration is an essential component in providing learner support in the distance learning environment. It can be found in many different guises in academe, and may involve faculty, staff and librarians. This paper ...