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- Contributor(s)
- Katrin Becker
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- Videogames are interactive by nature - people proceed in games by doing things, and this experiential quality lies at the very core of game design. Without interaction, it isn’t a game. Videogames are popular precisely because of the experience - games designed for learning can do no less. However, to be feasible for use in formal educational settings, they must do more, and while we are making progress studying games in classrooms, there remain few structured approaches to analysing games that do not include classroom testing. This paper outlines the author’s Four Pillars of Game-Based Learning (4PEG) which can be used to perform a structured analysis of both COTS and serious games to...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Erika E. Smith
- Date issued
- 2020-03-23
- Description
- Universities across Canada and the world have been working to rapidly move their face-to-face classes to remote delivery. While digital technologies enable people to work and learn from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, this huge task of seeking to meet particular learning objectives while going online ultimately falls to the people-the educators and students-who are behind the screens. My research on educational technologies and social media in higher education shows how human connections and meaningful interactions are an essential part of the learning process, especially online. As teachers and instructors shift to a digital environment, remembering our human capacities and...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- Contributor(s)
- Erika E. Smith
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- This study investigates undergraduate perceptions of the social media technologies (SMTs) they use in their learning. This mixed methods inquiry employed 30 semi-structured interviews and an online survey (N = 679) to explore why and how undergraduates from across disciplines view SMTs to be a meaningful part of their university learning. Findings shed new insights into student perspectives on and uses of social media, and the variety of ways in which undergraduates intentionally choose (or, choose not) to incorporate social media into their university learning in meaningful ways. Student perceptions formed an overarching theme of social media as a double-edged sword that both informs and...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- Contributor(s)
- Dorothy P. Hill
- Date issued
- 1998
- Description
- I report observations consistent with the interpretation that a Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius ornatus) fledgling from a first brood begged for and received food from its parents at a their second brood nest. All five nestlings in the second brood subsequently died and starvation appeared to be the major factor contributing to their deaths. This is the first reported case of apparent between-brood sibling competition in a passerine species and it fits the criteria of a parent-offspring conflict.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Erika E. Smith
- Date issued
- 2013
- Description
- Over the past decade, Prensky’s distinctions between “digital immigrants” and “digital natives” have been oft-referenced. Much has been written about digital native students as a part of the Net generation or as Millennials. However, little work fully considers the impact of digital immigrant discourse within the fields of adult learning and continuing education. It is promising that rather than being digitally challenged immigrants for whom new learning technologies are completely foreign, adults of different ages can bring valuable knowledge and skills to e-learning environments that enable them to achieve academic success. These are important findings, since e-learning is increasingly...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- Contributor(s)
- Michael S. Quinn; Geoffrey L. Holroyd
- Date issued
- 1992
- Description
- The mating status of house wrens was defined by social behavior and not strictly sexual relations. The incidence of polygyny was estimated by comparing the number of polygynous matings to the total number of nest attempts.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Pamela M. Nordstrom; Genevieve Currie; Shirley Meyer
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Nursing education programs are designed to respond to the evolving requirements of nursing practice while supporting student transformation in becoming a nurse. Students in these programs often refer to them as academically challenging and stressful. The aim of this study was to understand the experience of nursing students compared to the general university student population and specifically, to explore if nursing students are perceiving more stress than students in other university programs. This study arises from an earlier study conducted annually for four years at a western Canadian university following the method referred to as the “Harvard Assessment Seminar” (Light, 2001). In the...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Cari Merkley
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Review of the book The Culture of Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- University Library
- Contributor(s)
- David J. Finch; David Deephouse; Norm O’Reilly; William Foster; Loren Falkenberg; Carola Hillenbrand; Tyler Massie; Mackenzie Strong
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- Business Schools in Canada — Today business schools educate one in five university students who have the primary goal to develop the business skills and knowledge to support career success. To be able to deliver on this requires business schools' faculty to have the expertise to blend theory and practice.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Business and Communication Studies
- Contributor(s)
- Nicholas Strzalkowski; Aaron D. Chau; Liu Shi Gan; Zelma H. T. Kiss
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- The cerebellum is implicated in the pathophysiology of numerous movement disorders, which makes it an attractive target for noninvasive neurostimulation. Continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) can induce long lasting plastic changes in human brain; however, the efficacy of different simulation protocols has not been investigated at the cerebellum. Here, we compare a traditional 50-Hz and a modified 30-Hz cTBS protocols at modulating cerebellar activity in healthy subjects. Seventeen healthy adults participated in two testing sessions where they received either 50-Hz (cTBS50) or 30-Hz (cTBS30) cerebellar cTBS. Cerebellar brain inhibition (CBI), a measure of cerebello-thalamocortical...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Aliyah Dosani; Jena Hemraj; Shahirose S. Premji; Genevieve Currie; Sandra M. Reilly; Abhay K. Lodha; Marilyn Young; Marc Hall
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Background: The promotion and maintenance of breastfeeding with late preterm infants (LPIs) remain under examined topics of study. This dearth of research knowledge, especially for this population at-risk for various health complications, requires scientific investigation. In this study, we explore the experiences of mothers and the perceptions of public health nurses (PHNs) about breastfeeding late preterm infants in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Methods: We used an exploratory mixed methods design with a convenience sample of 122 mothers to gather quantitative data about breastfeeding. We collected qualitative data by means of individual face-to-face interviews with 11 mothers and 10 public...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Sasa Cigoja; Jared R. Fletcher; Benno M. Nigg
- Date issued
- 2021-01-10; 2021-01-10
- Description
- Objective: To investigate if changing the midsole bending stiffness of athletic footwear can affect the onset of lower limb joint work redistribu-tion during a prolonged run.Methods: Fifteen trained male runners (10-km time of
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Aliyah Dosani; Shahirose S. Premji; Sandra M. Reilly; Abhay K. Lodha; Marilyn Young
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Background:Public health nurses (PHNs) care for and support late preterm infants (LPIs) and their families when they go home from the hospital. PHNs require evidence-informed guidelines to ensure appropriate and consistent care. The objective of this research study is to capture the lived experience of PHNs caring for LPIs in the community asa first step to improving the quality of care for LPIs and support for their parents. Methods: To meet our objectives we chose a descriptive phenomenology approach as a method of inquiry. We conducted semi-structured interviews with PHNs (n= 10) to understand PHN perceptions of caring for LPIs and challenges in meeting the needs of families within the...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Tracy Lee; Kim Good; Winston Jamieson; Michael S. Quinn; Ashok Krishnamurthy
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- In Alberta, Canada beef producers share the landscape with large carnivores where interactions can lead to negative outcomes. We had 672 Alberta beef producers complete an online survey in spring 2014 to access the occurrence and outcomes of cattle-carnivore interactions.•We found that a majority (64%) reported losses from carnivore depredation. The average rate of calf depredation was reported at 2%, but the rate was highly variable between producers (ranging from 0 to 25% calf loss annually). The direct annual economic loss to depredation for survey respondents was $2 million. This can be extrapolated with a number of assumptions provincially to $22 million.• Alberta's Wildlife Predator...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Shawn X. Liu
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- In 2008 Alberta Education proposed a change of high school mathematics curriculum from the previous Pure Math-10, 20, 30 and Applied Math-10, 20, 30 to Math 10-C, Math 20-1, Math 30-1, Math 20-2, Math 30-2, Math 10-3 Math 20-3 and Math 30-3. The new high school mathematics curriculum was implemented in 2010 and the first group of high school graduates with this new mathematics curriculum got into the post-secondary institutions in 2013. With the old mathematics curriculum, the prerequisite was Pure Math 30 for the students taking mathematics or statistics courses in science and engineering (including nursing) in any post-secondary institutions in Alberta. With the new mathematics...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Brian Jackson
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Academic libraries have to a large extent taken the lead in facilitating new approaches to research data management, but changes to the research data landscape have had an impact on numerous areas of academic work, including ethics review. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews with chairs of Canadian research ethics boards, this study explores how ethics review boards have experienced changes to data policy and related technologies in order to describe the ethical implications of new approaches to data management and to explore ways in which the library, ethics review boards, and other campus partners might harmonize efforts to support emerging data practices. While...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- University Library
- Contributor(s)
- Tracy Lee; Michael S. Quinn; Danah Duke
- Date issued
- 2006
- Description
- Road Watch in the Pass is a citizen-science project that engages local citizens in reporting wildlife observations along a 44-km stretch of Highway 3 through Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta, Canada. The numbers of wildlife vehicle collisions and a recent proposal to expand the highway have raised concerns from both human safety and wildlife conservation perspectives. Through the use of a web-based GIS, interested citizens can contribute information that will be instrumental in making final decisions concerning measures to mitigate the effects of highway expansion. Currently, 58 people have contributed over 713 observations to Road Watch. We performed a preliminary comparison of 11...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Katrin Becker
- Date issued
- 2010
- Description
- This paper takes a fresh look at the Clark/Kozma debate from the perspective of 21st century new media technologies in general and serious games in particular. After a brief re-cap of the key elements of the debate, a relatively recent article by R.E.Clark is summarized that brings serious games into the conversation. Clark’s allegations are addressed and the case is made that digital games form a distinct medium that can not easily be lumped in with other educational technologies. The author draws on over a decade of personal experience teaching with games to move the debate to the next level and offer some recommendations for when and how games can be used effectively in formal contexts.
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- The emerging field of SoTL is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor, embracing a diverse range of research methods. It desires to be hospitable to a range of disciplinary differences in world views. However, the field lacks coherence in its conceptualization and communication. Ongoing debates in the community concern the use of theory, as well as definitional questions of what constitutes SoTL and the nature of its purpose. This article offers a framework for conceptualizing the field, which attempts to broadly delineate the available theories underlying and methodologies appropriate to studying teaching and learning, while intending to be hospitable to a broad range of diverse...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Steven Engler
- Date issued
- 2011
- Description
- This paper offers a brief overview of Canadian case law since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982. At the same time that it has more firmly entrenched religious freedom, the Charter has placed explicit limits on the right of religious freedom. Canadian courts have shown themselves willing to intervene in the internal workings of religious institutions. Legal protection has been extended to include not only non-Christian religions but also non-religious beliefs more generally.The cumulative effect of these decisions has been to effectively erode the de facto separation between Church and State that has developed in Canada. The value of increased respect for...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Arts