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Using Open Source Survey Tools for Qualitative Inquiries on Educational Development at a Distance Online University
(2013-03-05)This paper reports on two open source survey tools that were used to gather data related to Athabasca University’s (AU) educational development activities within a qualitative evaluation framework. First, a Moodle questionnaire ... -
L1 and L2 Students Together: Online Education to the Rescue
(2013-03-05)This presentation explores a solution to the problem of L1 and L2 students taking the same course while addressing the specific needs of both. We examine the data from three courses, offered asynchronously online with both ... -
Chunking and Extracting Text Content for Mobile Learning: A Query-focused Summarizer Based on Relevance Language Model
(2013-03-05)Millions of text contents and multimedia published on the Web have potential to be shared as the learning contents. However, mobile learners often feel it difficult to extract useful contents for learning. Manually creating ... -
Photo Essay Documenting Canadainas and their Interactions with Water
(2013-03-05)With 2013 designated as the UN Year of Water Cooperation, I feel that the bulk of a Canadians and Water project documented this year would offer the opportunity to release a completed project in 2013. The scope of my ... -
Attend The International Wikimedia Conference 2012
(2013-03-05)Participate in the Wikimania 2012 The International Wikimedia Conference, explore the research and development with Wikimedia applications. Learn more about what Wikimedia community had tried and where they are going, ... -
From Gatekeeping to Gate Opening: An Evolving Role for Academic Libraries
(2013-02-26)In the past the academic library has focused its energy on building collections and developing mechanisms to provide access to content. Library services developed around the role of being the gatekeeper to the content, be ... -
The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial System Changes to Support Societal Sustainability
(2013-01-21)The political economy of the current financial system is the context out of which alternatives are being forged. Changes to the privatized debt-based monetary system, expansion of co-operative and publicly owned finance ... -
On "Vulgar Exhibition": Hazlitt, "The Fight" and the Pornography of Popularity
(Nineteenth-Century Prose, 2009)This essay pursues Hazlitt as a case in Cultural Studies historiography by reading his 1822 essay "The Fight" as a contribution to the historical emergence of the discourse of "popular culture" as a class-inflected euphemism ... -
Take the Challenge for Primary Health Care and Pediatric APNs: Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Support for Parents of Chronically Ill Children
(2013-01-10)Parents of children with chronic illnesses experiences tremendous burden when caring for their children at home. There are many challenges that are present throughout the course of chronic illnesses. To provide better ... -
Flexible paths to assessment for OER learners: A comparative study
(JIME: Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2012-12)This paper highlights the preliminary findings of a one-year research project (2011) that investigated the fit of recognizing prior learning (RPL) practice and related assessment and transfer protocols to projected OER ... -
Draft Mandate for the Community-Based Research - Research Cluster (CBR) BALTA 2 Partnership Development Project Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-12-05)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ... -
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - List of References
(2012-12-03)This list of references was included in BALTA's Partnership Development Grant funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and covers a cross-section of theoretical and ... -
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - Goal and Project Description
(2012-12-03)This five year summary section of a funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada was prepared by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) to successfully seek funding ... -
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - Partnership Development Grant Application
(2012-12-03)This funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada was prepared by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) to successfully seek funding to support a two year development ... -
BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project Flow Chart
(2012-12-03)This flow chart provides an overview of the two year development phase of the new Scaling Innovation for Sustainability research program of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). -
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - Formal Partnerships
(2012-12-03)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is launching a new research program called Scaling Innovation for Sustainability - also known as the Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to ... -
Partnership Development Project – Research on Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - Memorandum of Understanding for BALTA Partners
(2012-12-03)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is launching a new research program called Scaling Innovation for Sustainability - also known as the Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to ... -
Policy for Adding New Partners and Participants to the BALTA Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project
(2012-12-03)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is launching a new research program called Scaling Innovation for Sustainability. The initial phase (2012-2014) is a development phase to develop the framework and ... -
Draft Mandate of the Micro, Mezzo, Macro Research Cluster (MMM) - BALTA Partnership Development Project: Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-12-01)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ...