AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 821-840 of 2005
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New copyright bill shortchanges consumers
(Edmonton Journal, 2010-07-16)Do you see what I see in the new copyright Bill C-32? Amid all the noise about new rights for users, upon closer scrutiny, this bill, rather than granting new rights, can effectively block users from making use of any and ... -
Digital Economy Strategy Consultation Athabasca University
(2010-07-15)The main points reviewed in this document are summarized below for ready reference; • The digital economy is based on the creation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge. • E-learning is an essential component of ... -
Rural Development Using Elearning: Learning Technologies in the Knowledge Economy
(2010-07-15)Historically, small provinces and states have been bypassed by the great metropolitan areas in economic development. However, as the new advanced training technology sector of the economy grows, distance from markets is ... -
2008 BALTA Symposium Program
(2010-07-15)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) held its first symposium in November 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This is the program for the two day event. -
“Social Economizing” Sustainability: A cross-project analysis & synthesis of research findings
(2010-07-15)This is the project proposal for BALTA Project B8, which involves the establishment of a one year BALTA supported post-doctoral researcher position. The focus of the position will be to facilitate analysis and synthesis ... -
Mapping the Social Economy in British Columbia and Alberta: Trends, Patterns, New Directions
(2009-05)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. As part of this research endeavor, the BALTA Mapping project ... -
The Web of Identity: Selfhood and Belonging in Online Learning Networks
(Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning 2010, 2010-05)In this paper, the reflexive relationship between social interaction and understanding of self in online learning networks is examined. In keeping with constructionism, we acknowledge the significance of social interaction ... -
Mobile Learning in Distance Education: Utility or Futility
(Journal of Distance Education, 2010)Can mobile technology improve flexibility and quality of interaction for graduate students in distance programs? This paper reports the results of an innovative study exploring the usability, learning, and social interaction ... -
Prospects for Socializing the Green Economy: The Case of Renewable Energy
(2010-07-14)This is the project proposal for BALTA Project B6 - Prospects for Socializing the Green Economy: The Case of Renewable Energy. It examines the context for wind energy production and involvement by social economy organizations ... -
Farmers’ Markets as Social Economy Drivers of Local Food Systems: Phases I and II
(2010-07-14)There is growing interest in the re-localization of food systems. Farmers’ markets are important and increasingly prevalent sites of economic and social exchange in the evolution of local food systems. Little is understood, ... -
Models for Strategy Choice in Random or Potentially Deceptive Environments
(2010-07-14)Two simulation models are presented illustrative of decision and behavioural choice issues for complex adaptive systems involving cognitive agents. The first illustrates the value of managed instability for complex systems. ... -
What Does Formal Online Debating Bring to Graduate Education?
(2010-07-14)Debating is a formal process of argument that has a long tradition of application in education. Educators value it as a strategy for promoting the development of skills associated with influencing others using logic, facts, ... -
Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice
(2010-07-14)Labour Education as Adult Education: Linking the CASAE Experience as Theory and Practice It has been suggested that over the next eighteen months CASAE members review the 30 years of CASAE existence and as part of that ... -
Economic and Social Satisfaction in Marketing Channels: The Impact of Influence Strategies in an African County
(2010-07-14)This article seeks, among others, to empirically validate the theory proposed by Geyskens et al. (1999) on the impact of influence strategies on economic and social satisfaction in the context of an African Country. New ... -
Preparing Effective Codes of Ethics in Aboriginal Agency
(2010-07-14)An Aboriginal agency that: (a) conducts business in a cross-cultural setting; (b) employs Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal employees; (c) wants to conduct its operations in keeping with Aboriginal protocols; may wish ... -
The Power of Virtual Professional Networking
(2010-07-14)Research in the business community indicates that virtual professional networks are used to keep internal staff and remote employees connected, to connect with potential clients, and to showcase the skills of the business. ... -
Concretizing Asian Canadian Theatre
(2010-07-14)Founded in Edmonton in 1989 as a community-action collective company, Concrete Theatre has prioritized in its mandate a focus on cultural diversity. For the past twenty years, it has created workshops for schools and ... -
Workplaces of Teleworkers
(2010-07-14)Teleworking has become quite popular in developed countries in recent years, but its growth has stabilized. A comfortable work environment at home is often cited as one key advantage of teleworking from home. Little ... -
The Philosophical Canon: East and West
(2010-07-14)This paper will examine the professional bias present in our philosophy departments against identifying Eastern traditions, such as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, as genuine philosophies that have a rightful place in ... -
Towards a Real Virtual Classroom
(2010-07-14)Distance education is well regarded as a better way to bring education to those who are unable to attend classes at traditional schools and universities. In recent years, new Web technologies and systems such as Ajax, RSS, ...