AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1841-1860 of 2001
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An exploration of the potential of music and narrative song as an instrument for learning, with a focus on distance education.
(2004-01-01)This thesis uses the qualitative research methodologies of Educational Criticism and Grounded Theory to explore whether expressive culture in the form of popular narrative song can play a constructive role as an instrument ... -
Case study of a knowledge-based organization.
(2001-01-01)This interpretative case study is an attempt to gain insight into the operation of a successful organization working within the new knowledge-based society, with a view to increasing the efficacy of educational interventions ... -
Gendered interactions in computer mediated conferencing: participation, purposive differences, and "list effects".
(2004-01-01)Computer mediated conferencing (CMC) has been widely viewed as a valuable forum for providing opportunities for interaction amongst learners in a distance education setting. This interaction has been identified as a critical ... -
The Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (Frame) Model: An Evaluation of Mobile Devices for Distance Education
(2006-05-18)Mobile technology is a new and promising area of research in distance education. Currently, there are few if any descriptive models of mobile learning that can be used to develop appropriate pedagogical practices. This ... -
Learning plans and motivation of adult learners.
(2004-01-01)This study emerges from past research into learner attributes, individualized learning plans, levels and quality of learner- facilitator interaction, student support, and factors affecting learning outcomes, satisfaction, ... -
Persistence of adult learners in distance education.
(2001-01-01)The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between persistence in distance education and resilience, life events, and external commitments. Previous studies in persistence in distance education have largely ... -
Adaptation and application of a transcript analysis tool to analyze a computer-mediated communication (CMC) distance education course transcript.
(1999-01-01)Traditionally, individuals engaged in correspondence course study were isolated in that they had no venue to communicate with fellow students. They used the telephone if and when they needed assistance from the instructor. ... -
Factors Affecting Users’ Decisions to Migrate from Initial Use of Information Technology to Continuing Use
(2005-09-30)Community college teachers completed survey and interview questions designed to elicit data on reasons for continuing use of web-based educational technology. The data were analyzed in relationship to two models of innovative ... -
Design and support strategies for learning in virtual communities of practice.
(2002-01-01)To face the challenges of their profession, individuals need to learn quickly to meet new issues, to develop new knowledge in their organizations and to share the knowledge with others in their community. Increasingly, ... -
The evolution of the ABE e-merge/BCcampus initiative.
(2004-01-01)The evolution of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) e-merge initiative in British Columbia (BC) is the focus of this historical-comparative analysis. To place this research in context, the ABE e-merge initiative’s design, ... -
Survey of available online training for Canadian voluntary boards.
(2001-01-01)There is a revolution underway in the voluntary section in a number of overlapping arenas. After years of benign neglect government, political and academic attention has been directed to the information vacuum that surrounds ... -
The effect of web survey design features on user response.
(2002-01-01)The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of two web survey designs on the response time of novice and of expert computer users. This thesis replicated two studies: (1) Dillman, Tortora, Conradt, and Bowker ... -
Perceptions of E-Learning Utility-Towards a Canadian Forces Strategy
(2006-08-10)This qualitative research examines the perceptions of e-learning stakeholders within the Canadian Department of Defence and makes strategy recommendations that may support e-learning adoption. A review of the literature ... -
Relationships among transactional distance variables in asynchronous computer conferences : A correlational study.
(2004-01-01)The purpose of this exploratory study with quantitative data was to examine the relationships, in the context of computer-mediated asynchronous conferences, among indicators for the main variables in Moore’s Theory of ... -
Supporting mentoring relationships through distance technology.
(2002-01-01)The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of mentoring and the reasons why individuals seek mentoring relationships, and to examine how mentoring may be supported through distance education technology. This study ... -
Informal learning: A study of advocacy groups and their use of technologies
(2006-12-05)Informal learning, now greatly supported by information and communication technology, is an area of interest for research. Researchers examine learning outside of formal structures; examples include workplace learning, ... -
Attention deficit disorder in adults and distance education.
(1998-01-01)Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) affects not only children but adults; one third to one half of children with ADD do not outgrow this disorder. The number of adults with ADD (ADDults) will increase as the children diagnosed ... -
The lived experience of being a distance learner.
(1999-01-01)The intent of this study is to explore purposefully the “being and becoming” a distance learner. The aim is to inquire into the meaning and significance of distance learning by asking “what?” is distance learning as ... -
A distance delivery model to improve accessibility to post-diploma baccalaureate level dental hygiene education.
(2000-01-01)Dental hygiene practice is grappling with change as it adapts to the rapidly evolving health care delivery system, and dental hygiene education must respond to the changing needs of its graduates. Dental hygienists and the ... -
Factors Influencing the Process of Critical Thinking Among Health Professionals During Computer Conferencing: A Case Study
(2005-06-17)Despite the growing amount of research evidence regarding effective clinical interventions, rehabilitation health professionals face many barriers in applying this new information to practice. Computer conferencing among ...