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Challenges and opportunities in graduate nursing education by distributed learning in Canada and Brazil.
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Silveira, D. T., Macdonald, M., Banister, E., Starzomski, R., Sheilds, L., Brown, M., Paskulin, G. L., Molzahn, A. E., Gamroth, L.
In this paper, the authors share their experience related to graduate nursing programs offered by distributed learning (DL) in Canada and Brazil. Although degrees offered by DL are often the subject of criticism, the authors' experience has been that learning outcomes have been very good....
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International dimensions of higher education in nursing in Canada: Tapping the wisdom of the 20th century while embracing possibilities for the 21st century
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Paul, P., Ogilvie, L., Burgess-Pinto, E.
New focus on the internationalization of universities occurred in the late 20th century and higher education in nursing has been quick to embrace the opportunities. In this manuscript, writers provide a brief overview of the nursing and more general literature from the late 20th century relating...
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The Constancy of the School ‘Canon’: A Survey of Texts Used in Grade 10 English Language Arts in 2006 and 1996
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DeBlois, Elizabeth, Storie, Dale, Vermeer, Leslie, Mackey, Margaret
This article reports on a 2006 survey of texts used in Grade 10 English language arts classes in Edmonton, Alberta. The survey uses the same instrument as a previous 1996 survey and provides comparative data from a section of the same pool as participated in 1996. In terms of the most popular...
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The design of an international social media event: A day in the life of the digital humanities
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Organisciak, Peter, Meredith-Lobay, Megan, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Ruecker, Stan, Nyhan, Julianne, Ranaweera, Kamal
A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a community documentation project that brings together digital humanists from around the world to document what they do on one day, typically March 18. The goal of the project, which has been run three times since 2009, is to bring...
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2016
Contributing to the recent debate on whether or not explanations ought to be differentiated from arguments, this article argues that the distinction matters to science education. I articulate the distinction in terms of explanations and arguments having to meet different standards of adequacy....