Contributor — Olaf Zawacki-Richter is professor of educational technology at the University of Oldenburg, and also teaches in the online Masters of Distance Education and E-Learning program offered jointly by the University...
Book — Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to...
Book — ...worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication...
Book — Transformer un organisme qui dispense des cours traditionnels en un organisme qui offre des cours à distance et en ligne n’est pas une entreprise de tout repos. Il faut comprendre...
Book — While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta as a wildlife saving effort, the political climate of the early twentieth century worked against...
Book — Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern...
Blog — ...writings on aspects of educational technology. Anne-Marie Scott is the Deputy Provost of Athabasca University and has over 18 years of experience in online and distance education. Prior to joining Athabasca...
Blog — ...in Canada, it was its 1937 amendment and the permitting of involuntary sterilizations that made the Alberta eugenics movement truly distinct. During the mid- to late 1930s—a time when the...
Blog — ...there’s a need for better tools. Have we landed on the best tool? No. But it’s probably the best one I’ve seen in my professional career. I see cities getting...
Blog — ...The report goes on to say that the “best practices for Aboriginal wellness involve a range of services from mainstream health care to traditional practices and medicines, all under community...