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Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game

Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of the game.

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The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides an overview of the major domains of HRM with a focus on the practical application of the most recent research and best practices. Barnetson and Foster provide thought-provoking political analysis to better prepare students for the real-world practice of human resource management.

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Writing Ukraine

Myrna Kostash’s term as writer in residence at Athabasca University began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her body of work and considers how her visits to Ukraine and the ongoing war have nuanced her writing about and understanding of Ukrainian Canadian identity.

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Issues in Distance Education offers informative and accessible overviews, research results, discussions and explorations of current issues, technologies and services used in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical issues and emerging trends, while noting the evolutionary history and roots of this specialized mode of education and training.

Principles of Blended Learning Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry

Norman D. Vaughan, Deborah Dell, Martha Cleveland-Innes, and D. Randy Garrison

How Education Works Teaching, Technology, and Technique

Jon Dron

Critical Digital Pedagogy in Higher Education

edited by Suzan Köseoğlu, George Veletsianos, and Chris Rowell

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