AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 741-760 of 1999
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BALTA Project A11 - Survival rates of co-ops in BC and Alberta
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project is exploring factors impacting on the survival of recently incorporated co-operatives in Alberta ... -
Role of Faith Based Organizations in the Social Economy: Phase II - The Role of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonite Community
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This is a second phase of research, following up on BALTA Project A4 completed in 2009. It continues the ... -
Approaches to Financially Sustainable Provision of Affordable Housing by Not-for-Profit Organizations and Co-operatives: Perspectives from Canada, the USA, and Europe
(2010-08-13)This paper arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits and ... -
Financial Sustainability in the Not-for-Profit Housing Sector – Literature Review
(2010-08-13)This literature review arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits ... -
Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable Management of Housing by Not-for-profit and Co-operative Organizations in Response to Decreasing Government Funding Programs
(2010-08-13)This report arises from project A9 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project examined successful cases of affordable housing provision through social economy organizations (non-profits and ... -
BALTA Project A9 - Affordable Housing Initiative: Sustainable management of housing by not-for-profits and co-ops with minimal to no government support.
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project explores models of successful financing and management of non-profit housing in Alberta and ... -
BALTA Project A8 - Creating a Database of Social Enterprise Capital Providers in BC and Alberta
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project involved surveying the range of capital providers for social enterprise financing in the two ... -
Innovation in Workplace and Language Training
(2010-08-11)The need for studies on learning via mobile device, particularly how workplace and language training might be conducted, grows in importance as more and more people become mobile device users.The Athabasca University (AU) ... -
Attend the Hope or Next Hope Conference
(2010-08-11)The main visual theme of the conference is visions of the future from the past, so things that reference The World’s Fairs, The Jetsons, flying cars, DaVinci, Asimov, and so forth would be very appropriate. However, projects ... -
A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping & Multi-Object Oriented Augmented Reality for Location-based Adaptive Mobile Learning
(2010-08-11)1) A Collaborative Mobile Virtual Campus System Based on Location-Based Dynamic Grouping This paper presents a collaborative mobile learning system: Mobile Virtual Campus (MVC) powered by the location-based dynamic grouping ... -
What might cause a benevolent government to be corrupt when agents are honest? An Insight with triadic relationships
(2010-08-11)Note: In order to make my points clear, I am providing an executive summary rather than an abstract. Executive Summary The extant literature that seeks to explain corruption in government bureaucracies usually refers ... -
Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours
(2010-08-11)Parenting Style and Adolescent Positive Behaviours Cheryl Kiera and Ambrose Leungb Athabasca University Mount Royal University This study explored the relationships between authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive ... -
A Flexible Mechanism for Providing Adaptivity Based on Learning Styles in Learning Management
(2010-08-11)While today’s learning management systems (LMSs) provide lot of support for teachers to assist them in holding online courses, they typically do not consider students’ individual differences in the composition and structure ... -
The Influence of Network Convergence on VoIP
(2010-08-11)Voice traffic operating within a shared packetized data network must meet the stringent expectations set forth by its circuit switched predecessor. Increases in network throughput, decreases in end-to-end latency, jitter ... -
Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach
(2010-08-10)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The project explores the potential impact of a participatory action research process using an environmental ... -
Information Literacy: Case Studies and Practices
(2010-08-04)Athabasca University Library, Red Deer College Library, and the University of Alberta Libraries have developed and implemented collaborative curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction. Participants will learn ... -
Rapid Instructional Design: Increasing Educator Capacity for Developing E-learning Solutions
(2010-08-04)Our paper presents the initial plan and theoretical groundwork for the rapid development of elearning solutions using Web 2.0 applications and services. The development of this model has been a collaborative venture and ... -
Converting Print-Based Course Materials for Online Delivery
(2010-08-04)As part of an ongoing effort to move from print-based, distance-delivered course materials to online delivery, Athabasca University is undertaking to convert files stored in an SGML-based print publishing system to XHTML-based ... -
Growth Model for Academic Program Life Cycles: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
(2010-08-04)Academic program life cycle concept states that each program’s life flows through several stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to enrollment ... -
Spiraling Out of Darkness: Mothering and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV
(2010-08-04)1. "Spiraling Out of Darkness: ‘Mothering’ and a Métis Woman’s Sojourn with HIV" (Presenters: Gina Wong-Wylie & José Pruden) Abstract: An artful process of revealing narratives and photographic images was central in the ...