AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 361-380 of 2001
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Athabasca River Basin Research Institute Repository: Enhancing open access, education and research
(2012-10-26)The Athabasca River Basin Research Institute (ARBRI) supports interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer of the Athabasca River Basin, an area of more than 159,000 km2 that is distinct by its watersheds, lands, ... -
Contribution of AU's e-Lab initiative to Open Access and OER Development
(2012-10-26)All universities have labs where research and teaching are conducted, where the physical tools of research and teaching are stored, where people get together to talk about their work and their ideas, and where the results ... -
Sleeping with the Elephant – Leveraging AU’s Position through Open Courseware
(2012-10-26)There has been an explosion of content in open (and not-so-open) forms in recent years, much of it highly relevant to Distance Education. It can be asserted that AU’s claim to fame is less the creation of content than the ... -
Much Open Online Content (mooc)
(2012-10-26)There have been transformations in libraries in at least three areas over the past number of years. First, in the area of service there is a transformation from users coming to the library to a model of the library reaching ... -
Integrating openness in course design
(2012-10-26)Supporting the widespread availability of OER is a goal that Athabasca University (AU) has embraced through association with the Commonwealth of Learning and by becoming a charter member of the OER University. The use of ... -
"Open and Closed" Getting the mix right. Who gets to Decide??
(2012-10-26)Despite the desirability of "Making Open the Default" as the theme of this year’s open access week, there are many reasons that can and should influence a person and an organization to restrict access to content. In this ... -
Open Access and Public Policy
(2012-10-26)Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the power of open access and the power of the new technologies to liberate and massify learning. Three reactions are worth pondering: those of the learning industries, those ... -
The OER university: A sustainable model for more affordable education futures
(2012-10-26)Open education provides unprecedented opportunities for universities to provide more affordable access to post-secondary education for all students worldwide. OER is a sustainable and renewable resource. The OER university ... -
OER and Mobile Learning
(2012-10-25)Open Educational Resources (OER) constitute an important resource with the potential to facilitate the expansion of mobile learning worldwide. The flexibility, both technological and legal afforded by openly licensed ... -
Community Finance Options: Sustainability Options for Resource Based Rural Communities
(Athabasca University, 2012)This summary report is part of a project on Sustainability Options for Resource Based Rural Communities. The profound socio-economic shift occurring because of global economic restructuring has created a financing gap in ... -
Community Finance and Investment Options: Local Capital Investment and Finance Options for Rural Alberta Communities
(Athabasca University, 2012)This report is part of a project on Sustainability Options for Resource Based Rural Communities. The profound socio-economic shift occurring because of global economic restructuring has created a financing gap in many ... -
Voice Interaction Online
(Nova, 2011)This chapter examines the potential for voice activities to enhance online learning. Although research related to online writing tools (such as e-mail, discussion threads, blogs, and wikis) is growing and the use of ... -
Learning technology through three generations of technology enhanced distance education pedagogy
(European Open and Distance Learning Journal, 2012)This paper updates earlier work in which we defined three generations of distance education pedagogy. We then describe emerging technologies that are most conducive to instructional designs that evolve with each generation. ... -
Interactions Affording Distance Science Education
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HRMT 386 - Impact of Gender
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A comparison of AU Press with traditional university presses: Two years later
(ElPub, 2012-06)This paper followus up on an analysis conducted in 2010 comparing an open access press with traditional university presses based on Amazon rankings. The findings support the previous research that there is no significant ... -
Project management: A strategic asset?
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Book Review: Project Management: The managerial process (5th ed.)
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Learning from lessons learned: Project management research program
(American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, 2012)When we fail to learn from our own mistakes or those of others, we tend to repeat the mistakes. This study discusses lessons learned as important ways of gathering and sharing both formal and informal project knowledge. ... -
Classifying project management resources by complexity and leverage
(International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2012)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework to classify project management resources as sources of competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the resource-based ...