AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1961-1980 of 2004
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Ten reasons for not doing web-based instruction (and ten responses)
(Distance Education Report, 1998)Ten reasons for not doing web-based instruction -
An intelligent agent for adapting and delivering electronic course materials to mobile learners
(mLearn 2005, 2005-10)The concept of mobile learning is often defined as learning that takes place with the help of mobile devices to access course materials; however, these devices operate in different ways and have different capabilities. ... -
Mobile devices and the future of free education
(International Council for Distance Education, 2005-11)The major technological trends supporting the view that "equal" or "free" education is becoming possible are those involving the new mobile devices: digital divergence - the growth in popularity of dedicated wireless devices ... -
The Athabasca University Digital Reading Room: Library resources for mobile students
(IADIS, 2005-06)This project has been designed to test the boundaries of Mlearning and to begin to build a platform for AU to raise an effective m-library. Building on the research conducted in Canada and abroad, the researchers are ... -
Development principles for online courses: A baker's dozen
(ELearn Magazine, 2005-11-29)Course development on the World Wide Web is becoming more sophisticated as instructors and course specialists become more familiar with the environment. Most course development principles for online courses have been ... -
eduSource Canada: learning object repositories & m-learning
(mLearn 2004, 2004-07)This presentation will explain the concept of learning objects and metadata and introduce the eduSource suite of tools, applicable for mobile learning. Learning objects are enabled and made interoperable using mobile and ... -
State of PLAR at our Alberta Post-Secondary Institutions?
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Academic Renewal at NBCC
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The view from here: Forward through the rear-view mirror
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Metis Studies : The Development of a Field and New Directions
(University of Alberta Press, 2001)Until recently, sources for Mets studies have been few both for classroom use as well as academic reflection. Lately, there has been a virtual explosion of interest, although largely among non-Mets historians. Now this to ... -
The Rise of the Heritage Priesthood or the Decline of Community Based Heritage
(Historic Preservation Forum, 1998)In October 1996 the United States Department of the Interior sent a cover letter for a lengthy document to state historic preservation officers and copied "tribes, professional organizations, and other interested parties." ... -
History of the Canadian Metis : study guide
(Athabasca University, 1996)The political, economic, and social history of present-day Canada was, for the first three huhdred years after European contact, a product of the fisheries and the fur trade. Posts along the ocean shores and along the ... -
Alberta : A Community Development Heritage Alternative
(ICOMOS Canada, 1996)Since 1980, twelve new heritage attractions have been constructed by the Province of Alberta with three new facilities opening since 1990 despite a major recession. All but the Royal Tyrrell Museum and its Field Station ... -
Insidious Sources and the Historical Interpretation of the Pre-1870 West
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1991)There has been a noticeable absence of the Anglican church, or its documents, in the mainstream of Canadian historical writing on the pre-1870 west. This does not mean that the Church of England has not been the subject ... -
A selected Western Canada Historical Resources Bibliography to 1985
(Prairie Forum, 1990)The bibliography was compiled from careful library and institutional searches. Accumulated titles were sent to various federal, provincial and municipal jurisdictions, academic institutions and foundations with a request ... -
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society, 1670-1870
(The Canadian Historical Association, 1987)The political, economic, and social history of present day Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, was, for the first two hundred years of European contact, a product of the fur trade. At various posts ...