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Fall 2015
Virtual environments are inherently social spaces where user productivity and collaborative learning can take place. However, the majority of existing studies to date investigate common behaviours such as multi-tasking within traditional face-to-face learning environments. As part of a thesis...
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Spring 2010
This thesis explores the limitations of determinism in regards to music, media, and the constitution of subjectivity. Its methodological resource is derived from a synthesis between media ecology, social psychoanalysis, and music semiotics. The case studies describe the incorporation of nostalgia...
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Fall 2010
In this thesis I consider the role of music in the construction of identity among West African Canadians, focusing on musical taste and performance. Drawing on themes from participant narratives, I look at how music can maintain connections with or reference identities from “home” cultures. ...
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New capitalization on old music: approaches to the use of Verdi's music in TV advertisements
DownloadSpring 2011
Advertisers use music in as much as 90% of television commercials. Classical and opera music play a special role in this medium, as classical music carries with it any number of already established inferences and meanings that may then be altered by the images in the commercial, or imparted upon...
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Nurse Educators Preparing for the Use of High-fidelity Human Patient Simulation: A Process of Finding Their Way
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Over the past decade in particular, high-fidelity simulation technology has been readily embraced and is increasingly expanding as an innovative approach to the teaching and learning process involved in preparing nursing students for the clinical setting. To date, there are no studies that...
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Observing Classroom Practices with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System – Secondary (CLASS-S): A Scoping Review, and Preliminary Reliability and Validity Study in Alberta, Canada
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Delivering quality instruction that fosters student learning is a complex and challenging task for teachers, particularly given the evolving needs of 21st century education (Downer, Jamil, Maier, & Pianta, 2012; McCombs, 2013). Despite a long tradition of classroom observations in educational...
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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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Fall 2010
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in South Africa experience a stigmatised HIV status which threatens to supplant their prior identities. This compounds the marginalization on multiple social levels experienced by those most vulnerable to infection as they cope with associations of death and...
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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...