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Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic

UBC Press

The first history of educational policy, practice, and decision making in the Eastern Arctic, now Nunavut.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Accessible Elements

Teaching Online and at a Distance

Athabasca University Press

This collection informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, as well as the relevant educational theory.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A Designer's Log

Case Studies in Instructional Design

Athabasca University Press

A unique contribution to the field of online learning, this designer’s log documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-mode instruction.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

UBC Press

This book explores the history of kindergartens and infant schools in three settler colonies, revealing how discourses and developments in the past have shaped early childhood education in the present.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Mobile Learning

Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

Edited by Mohamed Ally
Athabasca University Press

Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Exchange University

Corporatization of Academic Culture

UBC Press

This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Second Edition

Edited by Terry Anderson
Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Reshaping the University

Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States

UBC Press

This volume compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge in educational systems.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

UBC Press

This innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Training the Excluded for Work

Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income

UBC Press

In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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No Place to Learn

Why Universities Aren't Working

UBC Press

Arguing that too much emphasis is placed on specialized research and too little on teaching, this book contends that students seeking higher education in Canada are being short-changed.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada

Past, Present, and Future

UBC Press

Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Education, Student Rights and the Charter

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

How the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other human rights legislation apply to education.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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