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Spring 2022
This study of Pedagogy at the End of the World investigates the “end of the world” scenarios that now characterize education and its reasons in Anthropocene times. Emerging through an interrogation of the apocalypse habits and anthropo-scenic views through which educational futurity is most often...
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ProAnalyser: a multimedia modeling and authoring framework for discerning student learning processes
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Online multimedia education systems traditionally tend to consist almost exclusively of multiple choice or numeric response style questions. However, many curricula such as math, physics, and chemistry typically involve students completing large, complex, multi-step problems where the process...
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Psychological Functioning and Adaptation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Transitioning from Early Intervention to School
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Using the ecological framework proposed by Rous, Hallam, Harbin, McCormick, and Jung (2007), this paper-based dissertation investigates the transition from early intervention into school for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the impact it has on their emotional and behavioural...
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Fall 2011
Being human is a finite entity, defined by specific qualities, ideals, or characteristics. In Deleuzian terms, the posthuman is a stage of transition, never reaching representation because it is always changing and becoming. This dissertation explores the subjectivity of mostly Canadian,...
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Stories of Faculty who Served as Academic Administrators: Career-Life Experiences and Academic Identities of five Associate Deans
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Deans, chairs, associate deans, and associate chairs are, as academic administrators, at the nexus of the university organization. Much has been written on educational leadership theory and practice and on organizational theory, management, and behaviour. I have come to wonder, though, what the...
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Teachers’ Perspectives on Motivational Practices in Classrooms: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Design
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Motivation theory suggests several different approaches to best motivating students, established through rigorous empirical research. However, a theory-practice divide persists: teachers report feeling underprepared to motivate their students and researchers fail to make their recommendations...
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The Alberta Drug Administration Modeller (ADAM): a life-size, hands-on pharmacokinetics learning tool for our future healthcare professionals
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The processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination (ADME) determine a drug’s pharmacokinetics (PK). Each of these processes is described with abstract modelling, and the relationships are characterised through equations and graphical analysis using both noncompartmental and...
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The calm carrel: a relaxation technique for students with emotional and behavioural disorders
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The present study examined the implementation of a self-management strategy, termed the calm carrel, as a potential means of bringing about behavioural improvement (as reflected, primarily, in global behavioural ratings, extent of isolation time-out assignments, and student and teacher feedback)...
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The Effect that Mismatch from Preferred Camera Controlled Y-Axis Mapping has on Performance in First Person 3D Virtual Environments
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First person camera controlled 3D virtual environments, such as those utilized in video games, virtual simulations, virtual worlds, and serious games, continue to grow as a popular method for providing educational experiences. The method of interaction for manipulating the y-axis of the first...
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Spring 2010
Pain and anxiety are common among patients having surgery and education is essential in enabling patients to cope with postoperative pain and anxiety and improve outcomes. Since there is a trend for shorter hospital stays and a scarcity of supportive healthcare resources, patients will be...