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A Comparative Investigation of Pedagogical possibilities of Digital Tools for Family and School Early Literacy Education
Download2012-10-12
SSHRC Awarded Insight Grant 2013: The proposed research aims to investigate shifts in digital literacy practices in school and home in sites in Canada and Australia and to examine factors that might impede and/or facilitate digital literacy development.
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A Systematic Review of Instruments to Assess Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation in Health Care
Download2014
Attieh, Randa, Ouimet, Mathieu, Estabrooks, Carole A., Légaré, France, Gagnon, Marie-Pierre, Grimshaw, Jeremy, Ghandour, El Kebir
Background: The translation of research into practices has been incomplete. Organizational readiness for change (ORC) is a potential facilitator of effective knowledge translation (KT). However we know little about the best way to assess ORC. Therefore, we sought to systematically review ORC...
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2014-10-07
SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: Companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple have turned emerging technologies into pervasive products by quickly capturing dominant market shares and locking consumers into their eco-systems. Prior research has indicated that "cognitive lock-in" plays a...
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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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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Many of us have been frustrated when trying to learn something that we feel is difficult. Some of us chose to quit when facing frustration and others chose to work more so that they can overcome these difficulties. While several theories detail the role of adults’ emotions...
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2017-10-08
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: The project will document languages belonging to the Central Totonac branch of the Totonacan language family, which are in danger of extinction. Languages contain irreplaceable records of a people's knowledge of their natural environment and their cultural, social, and...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: An exploratory comparative case study of two Canadian prelicensure nursing programs from Eastern and Western Canada will be used to identify similarities and differences. Social Learning Theory will inform all aspects of the research. In phase 1, we will conduct a scoping...
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2011-11-28
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: The proposed research addresses the consistency and accuracy of classification results produced by a cognitive diagnostic assessment. The objectives of the proposed research are to (1) evaluate the strengths and limitations of our two new statistical indexes in applied...
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Partnership Development to explore Innovative uses of Low Cost Communication Technology for Knowledge Mobilization in Agricultural Communities of Practice
Download2011-11-29
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2012: The purpose of the research is to establish and support the activities of an emerging international and multi-organizational partnership among the University of Alberta, LIRNEasia (Sri Lanka), the University of Guelph, the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka), and the Sri...
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Reflections on the Cost of "Low-Cost" Whole Genome Sequencing: Framing the Health Policy Debate
Download2014-10-24
Miller, Fiona A., Hogarth, Stuart, Evans, Jim, McCabe, Christopher, Pullman, Daryl, Joly, Yann, Szego, Michael J., Bubela, Tania, Fishman, Jennifer, Sankar, Pamela, Cook-Deegan, Robert, Biesecker, Barbara, Ravitsky, Vardit, Borry, Pascal, K. Cho, Mildred, Ungar, Wendy, J., Ossorio, Pilar, Kato, Kazuto, Wilson, Brenda, McGuire, Amy, Soo-Jin Lee, Sandra, Caulfield, Timothy, Rothenberg, Karen, Rousseau, Francois, Etchegary, Holly, Carroll, June C.
The cost of whole genome sequencing is dropping rapidly. There has been a great deal of enthusiasm about the potential for this technological advance to transform clinical care. Given the interest and significant investment in genomics, this seems an ideal time to consider what the evidence tells...