AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 901-920 of 1999
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Back to the future: What’s Next for the Online Community of Inquiry Model?
(2010-06-23)The academic and social domains are represented in the online community of inquiry model by three elements called presences: Social, cognitive and teaching presence. To date, much research has been done on this model, yet ... -
Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Youth: Creative Settings, Strategies and Techniques
(2010-06-23)In this discussion, participants will describe and discuss innovations in SFT with children and adolescents. After a conceptual overview, participants will be asked to contribute their creative ideas. These could include: ... -
Approaching 40: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada
(2010-06-23)Gender analysis is settling into comfortable middle age in the forty years since the creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. The Royal Commission produced a case study in democratization and social inclusion ... -
Use of Mobile Learning Technology to Train ESL Adults” at the 6th World Conference on Mobile Learning
(2010-06-23)The Mobile learning ESL Project provides anyone needing assistance with remedial grammar to complete interactive lessons and exercises so that they can improve themselves to function in the workplace. Students can brush ... -
Many Views of Athabasca University
(2010-06-23)Due to the increasingly competitive atmosphere in higher education, providing excellent service to students is more important than ever. Institutions must provide good services that initially attract students to their ... -
Yoga as part of Wellness in the Workplace: A Case Study
(2010-06-23)This paper is written for a presentation at the 2nd Annual Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research (ANPR) Conference and is accompanied by a series of short activities that demonstrate some of the potential health benefits ... -
Attended
(2010-06-23)All creative, marketing, and communications professionals are invited to attend the UCDA Design Conference. At the conference you\'ll discover ideas, tools and techniques to make you more effective while inspiring creativity. ... -
Libraries Providing Learner Support: The Collaboration Connection
(2010-06-23)This session will focus on the role that collaboration plays in supporting learners in a distance education environment. Collaboration can be found in many different guises in academe, and may involve faculty, staff and ... -
Implementation of Mobile Learning Using Smart Phones at an Open University: From Stylesheets to Proxies
(2010-06-23)This investigation includes a description of the mobile friendly implementation of both text and multimedia content using a smartphone (a Treo 650) from a content provider’s perspective. This study involves research into ... -
An Experiment in Female Viewers’ Attentiveness to Pro-Esteem Media Messages
(2010-06-23)The present investigation examined the extent to which commercial TV ads that promote a “pro-esteem” attitude regarding women’s appearance can improve female viewers’ appreciation of their personal beauty. It also questioned ... -
Adaptive Assessment in Web-Based Learning
(2010-06-23)Web-based assessment is used in different contexts with the aim to support students and help to make learning easier and more effective for them. Typically, the individual characteristics and needs of students are used to ... -
Lighting the Load: Nursing Support with Family Members of Critically Ill Adults
(2010-06-23)Results of a grounded theory from family members\' perspectives indicated that the critical illness of an adult relative launches family members into a cycle of \"work\" as they strive to \"get through\" the experience. ... -
Mystification et Scadndales littéraires en France et en Europe: de Michel-Ange à Calixthe Beyela
(2010-06-23)Le mot mystification apparaît pour la première fois en France 1768 dans un conte de Diderot s’intitulant “Mystification ou Histoire des portraits”. On le trouve dans la locution “tour joué par une société de mystificateurs”. ... -
Teaching that takes Complexity Seriously: Developing the Master Project Manager
(2010-06-23)Interest in project management is growing significantly and an industry is evolving around project management training and education (Price & Dolfi, 2004; Thomas, Mengel & Andres, 2004). Yet the trend towards professionalism ... -
The Right Circumstances for Multidisciplinary Research”
(2010-06-23)This presentation will review the early and recent literature relevant to multidisciplinary collaborative research teams, presenting the threats and barriers as well as the strengths and opportunities inherent in their ... -
More than Workers, Less than Bosses: Participatory Organizing in Five Buenos Aires Worker Coops
(2010-06-23)It’s impossible to understand how to organize cooperatively without focusing on ‘sexual difference’, the French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s category for what has not yet been thought within our symbolic structures, but ... -
Remembering our Future: A Practitioner’s Perspective on the ‘Crisis’ in Cultural Studies”
(2010-06-23)I teach in something called an open university. Probably this would not be possible were it not for the ground-breaking work of the early practitioners of British Cultural Studies. From its inception, cultural studies was ... -
Harvestmen of Canada
(2010-06-23)Harvestmen are the third largest Order of Arachnida. Biological information, other than morphology used for taxonomy, is very limited. Canada has at least 43 species, mostly Euponi (Caddidae 3, Phalangiidae 12, Sclerosomatidae ... -
1) Singing the Unspeakable: from ‘Sheath and Knife’ to ‘O Bondage, Up Yours! and 2) Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folksong Revival, 1889-1904
(2010-06-23)1) In their desire to shock their listeners, the British punk bands of the mid-late 1970s delighted in performing lyrics that extolled mob violence and sexual deviance. The Sex Pistols, the Clash, X-Ray Spex and Wire (among ... -
Cultural vs. Social Theory
(2010-06-23)This paper will explore the need for a distinctive methodological approach to interdisciplinary inquiry in the cultural as distinct from the social sphere. The challenge of multidisciplinary research within a complex nexus ...