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Items in this Collection
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Incoming university students have experience with and are engaged by avatar-based virtual worlds [VEs]. Are educators ready for them? An empirically supported, psychological theory of learning in 3D Virtual Environments, with principles for educational practice, would...
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG awarded 2016: Worldwide, approx. 683 million young people between the ages of 10 and 25 are registered in virtual worlds. Virtual environments have the potential to provide instruction encompassing the attributes that educational research has determined increase student...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: There is sparse knowledge of the goal orientations of students in professional education programs and practising professionals who are graduates of those programs. Even less is known about the relationships between goal orientations and personal and professional outcomes...
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2023-09-01
SSHRC PEG awarded 2023: This project explores one rural community’s attempt to address its dependence on jobs in the oil and gas industry, youth out-migration, and low post-secondary education attainment. In 2020 Drayton Valley, a rural oil and gas town of 7,000 people (Statistics Canada, 2023),...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: For this research we are interested in accomplishing three main objectives. Objective 1: to first identify athlete perceptions of control during low-control setbacks, such as sport interruptions, and their impact on motivation in sport and psychosocial wellbeing. Objective...
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2015-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Where philosophy of science has traditionally construed and studied science in terms of representations of the natural world (eg: data and theories), this project will study scientists' values, explanatory and investigative aims, and methodological and explanatory...