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The Well-being of Adults who were Raised by Grandparents.
No full textPresented in Poster Session 12 on "Parenting and Grandparenting" at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 75th Conference, San Antonio, November 6-9, 2013
Resisting, Reaching Out and Re-imagining to Independence: LPN’s Transitioning towards BNs and Beyond
Full text linkLittle is known about the process of how nurses transition between vocational training and institutions of higher education. Understanding this process provides educators with the knowledge to support new groups of university students making this transition. Grounded theory (GT) was used to explore and understand this process. Three studies from a 7-year research program were used as data. The analysis led to the generation of a GT illuminating the process of students transitioning from post-LPN to BN. This GT illustrates how students overcome difficulties encountered moving to a more complex nursing role. The students’ main concern was a lack of independence. The core variable, which resolves this main concern, and which emerged from the analysis of the data is developing independence. There are three sub-core variables, resisting, reaching out and re-imagining which support this core variable of developing independence
OERu: Blending more affordable education futures
No full textThe OER university (OERu) is an international collaboration of universities, polytechnics and community colleges from five continents using open education approaches to provide more affordable education for all students worldwide, especially learners who are excluded from the tertiary education sector. Wayne will provide an update on progress of the OERu's prototyping phase and illustrate how OER enables the disaggregation of traditional services in a sustainable way. The OERu network is shifting the question from "How do you achieve sustainable OER projects?" to "How will your institution remain sustainable without OER?
Open Access Scholarly Publications as OER
Full text linkThis paper presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from a journal editor on the production, use, and re-use of peer-reviewed scholarly articles as open educational resources (OER). The scholarly and professional discourse related to open educational resources has largely focused on open learning objects, courseware, and textbooks. However, especially in graduate education, articles published in scholarly journals are often a major component of the course content in formal education. In addition, open access journal articles are critical to expanding access to knowledge by scholars in the developing world and in fostering citizen science, by which everyone has access to the latest academic information and research results. In this article, I highlight some of the challenges, economic models, and evidence for quality of open access journal content and look at new affordances provided by the Net for enhanced functionality, access, and distribution.
In the 17 years since I graduated with a doctorate degree, the climate and acceptance of open access publishing has almost reversed itself. I recall a conversation with my PhD supervisor in which he argued that publishing online was not a viable option as the product would not have permanency, scholarly recognition, or the prestige of a paper publication. His comments reflect the confusion between online resources and those described as open access, but as well illustrate the change in academic acceptance and use of open access products during the past decade. The evolution from paper to online production and consumption is a disruptive technology in which much lower cost and increased accessibility of online work opens the product to a completely new group of potential users. In the case of OER these consumers are primarily students, but certainly access to scholars from all parts of the globe and the availability to support citizen science (Silvertown, 2009) should not be underestimated
Listening with mobile devices: An ecological approach to context-embedded learning
No full textThis presentation at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) conference discussed a design-based research study which investigated and refined the best design principles for listening tasks using mobile devices. The participants in the study were overseas-trained professionals needing to improve their English listening skills in order to better and more fully participate in Canadian society and as professionals in their areas of training. By using mobile devices, participants were able to interact with real language, real people and in real-life contexts, in which they collected samples of English being used outside of the classroom and interacted with both classmates and people in the streets using support accessed through their mobile devices. The theoretical basis for the design approach taken used a newly emerging theory called ecological constructivism to describe and predict how these learner-participants interacted using English and learned new vocabulary, expressions and information about the city in which they live.This presentation discusses a design-based research (DBR) study into effective design for teaching listening in the real world using mobile devices. An emergent theory of learning, ecological constructivism (EC), was chosen as the theory that best fit the learner interactions, as well as the affordances and constraints presented by the real-world learning environment. This DBR project was an ideal vehicle to iteratively test and refine the EC theory and its various constituent principles. EC is discussed as a theory that both accommodates and explains context-embedded language learning. A brief overview of the study and its results is also presented
Cooperative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Missing Link
No full textAt the 55th annual conference of the CORS I gave a presentation titled “Cooperative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Missing Link” I also chaired one of the Supply Chain Management sections.
My presentation went well and was well accepted by the audience. Several researches indicated interest in the topic and suggested useful (and all positive) comments. Most of the comments were about extensions to the paper and what I can do next.
The completion of the A&PDF was extremely important to me. It allowed me to network with my colleagues from other Canadian universities. I was able to present my ideas and thoughts, and more importantly, was able to listen to their ideas and research topics. Several potential research ideas were discussed and I now have a number of ideas to research and pursue further.This study examines organizational culture as a strategic determinant of cooperative buyer–supplier relationships. While historically, organizations sought lowest-bid solutions by having suppliers compete against one another, this short-term strategy has given way to one of enhancing relationships with suppliers in order to achieve competent and loyal supply chains. As a result, many organizations today are aggressively reducing their total number of suppliers, increasing their reliance on the suppliers that remain, and involving suppliers in new product developments. This study uses data from 195 organizations that are involved in developing new products to investigate the cultural determinants of this shift toward cooperative supply-chain management and suggests that organizations that have achieved more cooperative and integrative buyer–supplier relationships have specific cultural dimensions. The study relies on the cultural dimensions suggested by Hofstede when studying the relationship between organizational culture and buyer-supplier relationships
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
No full textThe Hawaii International Conference on Education has been held every year since 2002. It aims to allow those involved in education to meet others from around the world to exchange ideas in ways they would not be able to otherwise. The international, cross-disciplinary focus enables input revolving around a variety of cultures, languages, politics, and geographies. In 2012 there were 1300 representatives from 35 countries. Data from the 2013 conference are not out yet. Parallel sessions start at 8:00 in the morning and go through until 6:15 at night. This is one of the friendliest conferences I have been to; participants are very eager to listen and to exchange ideas. They are keen to get to know one another. I would highly recommend this conference to those who would like to exchange ideas related to education.This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half of 423 students correctly answered four questions involving recognizing plagiarism and only a minority was able to rephrase a passage without producing plagiarized content. This suggests that most cases of plagiarism are inadvertent, so skill development rather than punishment may be appropriate
Barriers to Participation: A Research Report
No full textThis is a action research report completed for the purpose of program enhancement of the Unleashing Local Capital project in Alberta. The project is funded by the Rural Alberta Development Fund and administered through the Alberta Community and Cooperatives Association along with project partners, Athabasca University, Community Futures, Conseil de developpement economique de l'Alberta, Alberta Rural Development Network, and University of Alberta's School of Family BusinessTo initiate the Unleashing Local Capital program, the Alberta Community and Cooperative Association, along with its project partners held a series of information sessions introducing the concept of local investment co-ops to communities throughout the province. Community members were then invited to apply to the program and develop an "Opportunity Development Co-op" within their own communities. The ULC project team provided a $60,000 grant and mentoring to communities. This research piece spoke to members of the communities who attended the information sessions and then chose NOT to apply. The purpose was to identify the barriers to participation with the goal of removing these for future communities.Rural Alberta Development Fund (RADF
Creating an Inter-Organizational Electronic Health Record in Kibera – Challenges and Solutions
No full textThis funding supported travel to the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.4’s conference on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. At the conference, I presented, on behalf of co-authors, Drs. Pamela Njuguna and Abdullah Saleh, our paper, “Creating an Inter-Organizational Electronic Health Record in Kibera – Challenges and Solutions”.
This research, looking at the critical success factors of implementing an electronic health record in a particularly resource-constrained setting, is in-progress. Therefore, it was important to present early data to a community of researchers interested in similar questions and similar settings. The feedback and network connections obtained through my attendance will be critical in shaping the ongoing research.Electronic health records (EHR) are widely seen to hold great potential for improving health outcomes in the Global South. This research-in-progress paper looks at the creation of an inter-organization EHR in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya. The ability to share patient care records across independent clinics is expected to allow patients to seek care wherever appropriate medical expertise or resources are located, supported by the sharing of patient care data. This is particularly important in resource-constrained settings where necessary healthcare resources may exist within communities but is distributed across many care organizations. While this objective offers an opportunity to improve both healthcare outcomes in resource-constrained settings, it creates new challenges to implementation. This report looks at these challenges and the solutions that are currently being considered
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy: The Example of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonites
Full text linkThis research report is the second phase of a two-part research program investigating the
recent contributions of faith communities to social economy initiatives in Canada. The first phase broadly explored the involvement of faith based organizations in supporting and collaborating with the social economy. This second phase has looked more closely at the role of Catholic religious orders and the Mennonite faith in Canada in supporting the social economy. This research was conducted under the auspices of the B.C-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA.B.C-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Catherine Donnelly Foundatio