Athabasca University Press is Canada’s first open access scholarly press. Founded in 2007 with the principal aim of reducing barriers to knowledge and increasing access to scholarship, AU Press is committed to bringing the work of emerging and established scholars to the public. With both an open-access journal and monograph program, they make a significant contribution to the growing body of academic and literary work that is available to a global readership at no cost to the reader.
An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals
Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Kumar and Dawson's program design is grounded in the theoretical and research foundations of online, adult, and doctoral education, curriculum design and community-building, implementation and evaluation. The authors, who draw on their experience of implementing a similar program at the University of Florida, not only share data collected from students and faculty members but also reflect on lessons learned working on the program in diverse educational contexts. An important guide for program leaders who wish to develop and sustain an online professional doctorate, An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals will also be a valuable resource for higher education professionals seeking to include e-learning components in existing on-campus doctoral programs.
- Copyright year: 2017
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Intended to introduce readers to the use of artificial neural networks in the study of music, this volume contains numerous case studies and research findings that address problems related to identifying scales, keys, classifying musical chords, and learning jazz chord progressions. A detailed analysis of networks is provided for each case study which together demonstrate that focusing on the internal structure of trained networks could yield important contributions to the field of music cognition.
- Copyright year: 2017
Public Deliberation on Climate Change
Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue
Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
In this study of UFCW 401, Foster investigates a union that has had remarkable success organizing a group of workers that North American unions often struggle to reach: immigrants, women, and youth.
- Copyright year: 2017
Under Siege
The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain
- Copyright year: 2016
The Wolves at My Shadow
The Story of Ingelore Rothschild
- Copyright year: 2016
An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land
Unfinished Conversations
These essays Jennifer Brown’s investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change.
- Copyright year: 2017
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Contributors discuss and explore the unique record of prehistoric landscape use revealed by development in the lower Athabasca Basin.
- Copyright year: 2016
Interrogating Motherhood
Ross explores the topic of mothering from the perspective of Western society and encourages students and readers to identify and critique the historical, social, and political contexts in which mothers are understood.
- Copyright year: 2016
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a simple and outspoken account of the sexual and psychological abuse that Arthur Bear Chief suffered during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation.
- Copyright year: 2016
Spark of Light
Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha
Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha.
- Copyright year: 2016
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.
Without Apology
Writings on Abortion in Canada
- Copyright year: 2016
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Living on the Land
Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place
An interdisciplinary volume that explores Indigenous women’s environmental knowledge and how that knowledge is often marginalized by ethnocentric research paradigms and legal processes that focus on male economic interactions with the environment.
- Copyright year: 2015
Visiting with the Ancestors
Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning
Foundations and Applications
- Copyright year: 2016
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Research and Applications
In this authoritative collection, a team of international experts outline the emerging trends and developments in the use of 3D virtual worlds for teaching and learning.
- Copyright year: 2016
How Canadians Communicate VI
Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy
- Copyright year: 2016
Community Nutrition for Developing Countries
- Copyright year: 2016