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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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Don't Make Me Type: A Study of Students' Perceptions of Library Catalogues on Tablet Computers
Download2015-07-01
The objective of this mixed methods pilot study was to ascertain university students’ perceptions of online library catalogues using tablet computers, to determine how the participants used tablets and whether or not the NEOS consortium catalogue (NEOS) played an important role in the...
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Information Use on Mobile Devices in Medicine
2012-06-11
Boruff, Jill, Robertson, Helen, Ufholz, Lee-Anne, Storie, Dale, Chojecki, Dagmara
Introduction: Little is known about medical trainees’ and clinicians’ current use of mobile devices for information-seeking, including the resources they use and in what context. This study was designed to better understand what types of mobile information resources this population finds...
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2005-08-31
Academic business librarians are hired for their subject expertise to provide reference, instruction, collection development and liaison services to business faculty and students in university libraries. Previous surveys of academic business librarians found that many librarians assume these...
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Spring 2011
While evidence-based practice and knowledge translation (or transfer) has garnered much attention, research has not focused on health information as provisional and emergent, and on knowledge translation (KT) as a process of social construction. The challenge of evolving information is magnified...
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Mobile devices in medicine: a survey of how medical students, residents, and faculty use smartphones and other mobile devices to find information
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The research investigated the extent to which students, residents, and faculty members in Canadian medical faculties use mobile devices, such as smartphones (e.g., iPhone, Android, Blackberry) and tablet computers (e.g., iPad), to answer clinical questions and find medical information. The...
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2013-05-27
Mobile technologies are being increasingly used in the education field, for instruction and learning. This poster presents results of an institutional survey completed during 2012-2013 investigating barriers and priorities for mobile technology use among Education students at the University of...
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Representations of Aboriginal women in pregnancy information sources: a critical discourse analysis
DownloadFall 2010
The goal of this study is to critically examine health information sources in order to determine whether Aboriginal women are represented in these resources, and if so, how they are being presented. This research is intended to illuminate the practices around the construction of information, and...
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2023-04-01
In recent years, edge computing has been accelerated greatly by the proliferation of IoT and smart mobile devices. While edge computing has been of immense help to mobile devices in their quest to complete complex tasks, its rapid growth has led to a widespread disregard for security risks in...