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Contributor(s): D. Scharie Tavcer
Date issued: 2017
Description: Sentencing in Canada has remained fairly consistent since formalized courts, at both the federal and provincial levels, were established shortly after Confederation in 1867. Once an accused person is convicted (found guilty) of a crime, the court must decide on an appropriate sentence. Sentencing is one of the most challenging and controversial aspects of our justice system. The public has strong opinions about it, the media reports its perspective, and the written law has its framework. In addition to all of that, there are the individuals affected by the crime—victims and offenders—who also have a broad range of religious, social, cultural, and moral values and views that influence...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Daniel Voth; Jessie Loyer
Date issued: 2019
Description: Though Métis people have had a long presence in Calgary and southern Alberta, their kinship within the Nehiyaw Pwat allied them against the Blackfoot Confederacy: as strangers politically and culturally, they remained as guests in this territory. For Métis people who live in Calgary who want to be good guests, the authors suggest an “ethic of reciprocal visiting” that emerges from Métis visiting culture, where Indigenous guests outside of their home territory are called to listen to their hosts as a dancer listens to the fiddler and adjusts their steps, engage in respectful non-interference, and be prepared for correction.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Arts

Contributor(s): Jennifer Pettit; Melanie Rathburn; Victoria Calvert; Roberta Lexier; Margot Underwood; Judy Gleeson; Yasmin Dean
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter describes a multidisciplinary faculty self-study about reciprocity in service-learning. The study began with each co-author participating in a Decoding interview. We describe how Decoding combined with collaborative self-study had a positive impact on our teaching practice.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2008
Description: Mount Royal College has a longstanding commitment to information literacy as part of its mandate to promote student success and satisfaction. The library has provided course-integrated instruction in a variety of formats for over twenty years. Moving beyond course integration to program integration was a natural progression. Librarians and teaching faculty saw a need to plan sequenced sessions that would introduce students to incrementally complex information skills and resources throughout their academic careers. The librarians anticipated that integrating the instruction through the program would reduce unnecessary repetition, enhance student awareness of the myriad resources beyond the...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Jessie Loyer
Date issued: 2018
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter presents the bottlenecks identified by seven faculty members from diverse disciplines, and an inductive content analysis of their Decoding interviews. Representative quotations illustrate themes in the interviews and we consider the implications for both faculty development and pedagogical research.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
Date issued: 2017
Description: This final chapter synthesizes the findings and implications derived from applying the Decoding the Disciplines model across disciplines and within communities of practice. We make practical suggestions for teachers and researchers who wish to apply and extend this work.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Katrin Becker; J. R. Parker
Date issued: 2008
Description: Before researchers can perform studies using commercial games, they must choose which game or games to study. The manner in which that choice is made and justified is the focus of this paper.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Katrin Becker
Date issued: 2006
Description: Books, film, television, and indeed every other medium that came before them has been used and sometimes studied as media for the delivery of instruction. Outstanding examples of each medium have been applied to educative purposes with enduring results. Digital games are now also receiving attention in this context. A first step to gaining an understanding for just how a particular medium can be used in education is to study the outstanding examples, regardless of their original purpose. This chapter examines numerous well-known and commercially successful games through the lens of several known and accepted learning theories and styles, using the premise that “good” games already embody...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Sandra L. Braun; Mohamed Ben Moussa; Wided Dafri; Ana Stranjančević
Date issued: 2019
Description: In the United Arab Emirates, economic and cultural forces are affecting the development of public relations. A high imbalance of expatriates to locals (Emiratis) in the population has left the field of public relations lacking in local representation. Without adequate representation across the major sectors of the society, Emirati can lose influence and control over their own homeland where they are a significant minority. A contributing factor to success in any field is the development of professional socialization and construction of a professional identity in the post-secondary environment. This is an exploratory study examining Emirati public relations students and their professional...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Business and Communication Studies

Contributor(s): Ron MacDonald
Date issued: 2017
Description: Deciphering teachers’ paths to their disciplinary professional identities can make important elements of their tacit knowledge explicit and available to their students.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Peter Felten; Margy MacMillan; Joan Ruelle
Date issued: 2019
Description: This essay is the product of a collaboration between three authors who bring diverse understandings of SoTL, librarianship, and professional development. Writing this has been a form of professional development, encouraging the authors to think more deeply about discipline-based practices and how they connect to student learning, increasing understanding of each other’s disciplines, and transforming that joint reflection into work that may impact teaching.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Genevieve Currie
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter describes how seven disciplinary bottlenecks from four diverse disciplines were analyzed using a phenomenological perspective and includes a discussion of embodied knowing and implications for educators.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Erika E. Smith; Richard Hayman
Date issued: 2016
Description: With the ever-expanding range of emerging educational technologies that could be introduced to learning environments, making evidence-informed decisions about whether and how to effectively use e-learning tools for pedagogical purposes is a critical yet challenging task. How can educators, learners, and administrators make informed decisions about the use of particular emerging technologies to achieve desired pedagogical transformation when, due to their relative newness, there is often a perceived lack of available and “up-to-the-minute” research on the latest technological trends that may impede evidence-based educational practice? This is a key problem of evidence for technology use in...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Teaching and Learning; University Library

Contributor(s): Katrin Becker; Scott Nicholson
Date issued: 2016
Description: The term “gamification” is relatively new, but its exact origins are not known. The first recorded use was in the digital media industry in 2008 and it has become popular in the last couple of years (Deterding, Dixon, Khaled, & Nacke, 2011). A search performed in October 2012 on Google Scholar using the term “gamification” turned up over 1,000 publications, and the same search in May 2014 produced over 7,000 publications. 80,000 people were registered in the Coursera Gamification course in Sept/Oct 2012 (Werbach, 2012). The attention that gamification gets from industry, as well as from the public, makes it one of the newer concepts of the use of games in the real world to surface in...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2019
Description: The abstract introduces this collection of essays bridging the gap between librarians and the professional development (POD) community.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Katrin Becker; Elisa Gopin
Date issued: 2016
Description: Digital games are being used more and more often as teaching resources in the classroom (Habgood & Ainsworth, 2011). Some are games designed specifically for educational purposes, and others—commonly known as COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) games—are commercial games that were designed for entertainment, but have educational value as well. Some of these, like The Sims, Civilization, and Portal, have come to be seen as educational games despite having commercial success outside of education. COTS games may be free to download or play, or games that must be purchased. They can be for any platform, including mobile. While there appears to be a gradually growing acceptance of the use of games...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Science and Technology

Contributor(s): Michelle Yeo; Mark Lafave; Khatija Westbrook; Jenelle McAllister; Dennis Valdez; Breda Eubank
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter demonstrates how Decoding work can be productively utilized within a curriculum change process to help make design decisions based on a more nuanced understanding of student learning, and the relationship of a professional program to the field.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Michelle Yeo
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter argues that expert practice is an inquiry which surfaces a hermeneutic relationship between theory, practice, and the world, with implications for new lines of questioning in the Decoding interview.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2019
Description: The book in your hand represents an exciting moment in academic librarianship. Collectively, the work explicitly recognizes the deep connections between the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and the scholarly work of librarians. Individually, the essays and case studies demonstrate a remarkable range of how these connections support and strengthen our contributions to academic and student learning. SoTL provides a way of grounding our scholarly teaching within theories of learning both established and developing. It is a framework for contextualizing the learning we see (or don’t) through research conducted across the disciplines and a portal through which we can enter wider...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

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Sentencing

Why Calgary Isn't Métis Territory: Jigging Towards an Ethic of Reciprocal Visiting

Building Bridges from the Decoding Interview to Teaching Practice

A Tale of Two Syllabi: Program-integrated information literacy instruction in chemistry and journalism

Indigenous Information Literacy: nêhiyaw Kinship Enabling Self-Care in Research

Uncovering Ways of Thinking, Practicing, and Being through Decoding across Disciplines

Learning from Decoding across Disciplines and within Communities of Practice

On Choosing Games And What Counts as a “Good” Game

Pedagogy in Commercial Video Games

Socialization and the Construction of a Professional Identity among Public Relations Students in the United Arab Emirates

Intuitions and Instincts: Considerations for Decoding Disciplinary Identities

SoTL difference: The value of incorporating SoTL into librarian professional development

Conscious Connections: Phenomenology and Decoding the Disciplines

Decision Making and Problems of Evidence for Emerging Educational Technologies

Gamifying the Classroom: Pros and Cons

Foreword to Building Teaching and Learning Communities: Creating Shared Meaning and Purpose

Selection Criteria for Using Commercial Off the Shelf Games (COTS) for Learning

Impact of Decoding Work within a Professional Program

Decoding the Disciplines as a Hermeneutic Practice

Foreword [to The Grounded Instruction Librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning]

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