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Pages
- Date issued
- 1917; 1917
- Type
- book
- Appears in collection(s)
- C0003 - Medieval and early modern manuscript collection
- Contributor(s)
- Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Date issued
- 2013
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Date issued
- 2014
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- 6th Annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Banff, Alberta Canada November 12 - 14, 2015. This gathering of teacher/scholars is a practitioner’s conference dedicated to developing teaching and learning research, sharing initial findings, going public with results of completed projects, and building an extended scholarly community. In its 6th year, the conference annually draws together faculty, students, educational developers, and administrators interested in the systematic inquiry into teaching and learning. This year's conference featured four pre-conference workshops, a day and a half of concurrent sessions, a poster session, reception, and two plenary keynote...
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Erika E. Smith
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Are you preparing to teach online due to the coronavirus emergency, but need a place to start? One simple way to guide your planning is to think about online learning (like many forms of learning) as involving three key elements (Anderson, 2008): Student-Content, Student-Student, and Educator-Student interactions. This infographic illustrates these three interaction elements and provides related examples. References: Anderson, T. 2008. The theory and practice of online learning (Chapter 2, 2nd ed.). Available at: https://www.aupress.ca/books/120146-the-theory-and-practice-of-online-learning/
- Type
- instructional poster
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- 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...
- Type
- 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...
- Type
- 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...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning
- Contributor(s)
- Colm McCabe
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- Analyzed through the lens of social-bond theory, this thesis examines the relationship between sports participation and delinquency among adolescents. The purpose of this thesis is to better understand whether sports can serve as an effective intervention strategy for policy makers, government agencies and criminal justice branches that deal directly with at risk-youth or offenders who can benefit from sports-related programs. Through the use of a meta-analysis methodological design, the findings uncovered through common literature will reflect the extent to which social-bond theory can sufficiently explain delinquency among athletes. Traditionally, sports-participation and physical...
- Type
- thesis
- Appears in collection(s)
- Undergraduate Student Research
- Contributor(s)
- Katrin Becker; J. R. Parker
- Date issued
- 2005
- Description
- The quest for interesting, engaging, yet doable programming assignments is an ongoing one. Authentic, realistic examples have often been drawn from business, and games have often been overlooked as being too narrow in scope. This paper explains why computer games, especially classic arcade games are ideal vehicles for learning to program.
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Braun, Sandra L.
- Date issued
- 2018; 2018
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Business and Communication Studies
- 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.
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Description
- This collection is reserved for collections belonging to MRU's Archives & Special Collections.
- Appears in collection(s)
- Mount Royal University
- 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...
- Type
- 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.
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology
- Contributor(s)
- Camille Cunningham
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Using a comparison case study method, the goal of this undergraduate honours project was to compile a resource inventory of the community based services for victims of family violence specific to a Southern Alberta rural town to those in an urban area. This topic is important to examine because rates of family violence are higher among rural populations than in urban areas (Statistics Canada, 2016, p. 43; Northcott, 2011, p. 10). Due to the unique nature of family violence criminality and victimization, victims require additional supports beyond those provided by the criminal justice system. Community based agencies offer various resources that may be used in helping individuals cope with...
- Type
- thesis
- Appears in collection(s)
- Undergraduate Student Research
- 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...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Kaitlin McKendrick
- Date issued
- 2020-04; 2020-04
- Description
- Youth that are deemed at-risk to commit crime typically have experienced one or more factors that put them at risk. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the factors that put youth at greater risk of engaging in criminal behaviour. Then through the lens of Professor Travis Hirschi’s social bonding theory, examine existing research on the effectiveness of youth mentoring programs in building resiliency. Through the social bonding theory and the development of bonding elements, it is determined that youth mentorship programs that follow certain criteria can be effective in reducing risk factors among youth. With the research obtained, this thesis then compiles the criteria that...
- Type
- thesis
- Appears in collection(s)
- Undergraduate Student Research
- Contributor(s)
- Cari Merkley
- Date issued
- 2020; 2020
- Description
- Review of the book The Culture of Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries.
- Type
- 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.
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Business and Communication Studies