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Distributed Teaching
Full text linkThe central phenomenon that this entry seeks to explore is that people with the job title of “teacher” are almost never the only teachers in a learning transaction, and autodidacts are almost never solely responsible for their own learning. As well as designated teachers and students, text book authors, editors, illustrators, exam boards, curriculum designers, governments, timetablers, classroom designers, architects, learning management system managers, counselors, career advisors, makers of YouTube videos, discussion forums, friends, family, and very many other individuals and groups can and do play an active and often highly significant teaching role in guiding, supporting, and managing the learning process. Online learning, especially when it involves a team of specialists working on a course, makes the distributed nature of the process very visible, and the relative autonomy of online learners makes it more likely that they will seek additional or alternative supports for learning, but virtually all conventional in-person teaching involves multiple teachers too, from peers to textbook authors and, most especially, the learners themselves
Late life depression: nursing actions that can help
Full text linkPurpose: This article explains the symptoms of late life depression (LLD) and discusses evidence‐informed actions that nurses can implement to provide older adults with the help they need.
Conclusions: Recognizing and addressing depression in older adults can enhance quality of life.
Practice Implications: People with LLD may not appear sad or express feelings of depression. Instead, they demonstrate loss of interest, frailty, cognitive impairment,suicidal ideation, unexplained somatic complaints, and loneliness. Documenting symptoms, screening, and assessing suicidal ideation are essential. Positive outcomes are associated with antidepressant medications, cognitive behavioral therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, neuromodulation therapies, and exercise
Access Copyright and Fair Dealing Guidelines in Higher Educational Institutions in Canada: A Survey
Full text linkInformation about the acceptance by Canadian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) of the Access Copyright (AC) tariff is important for educators even though only a minority of HEIs in Canada have committed to the AC tariff. In addition, the copyright “pentalogy,” the five major decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), and its interpretation of fair dealing has become relevant for the institutions, faculty and students. Many universities and community colleges in Canada have adopted the Universities Canada (UC) guidelines on fair dealing, while some have adopted the “six-point test” as their guideline. In some cases, institutions have not adopted any policy or guidelines on any aspect of copyright. This paper will investigate these issues to provide one view of the behaviour Canadian HEIs exhibit in their adherence to AC and their use of policy and guidelines at their institutions
Mentoring non-traditional students in clinical practicums: Building on strengths
Full text linkBackground: As nurse educators respond to increasing numbers of adult learners attending practicum experiences, clinical
instructors are one of our richest resources. And yet, the everyday strategies they implement to mentor these non-traditional
students towards success may go unnoticed. This article describes findings from a qualitative descriptive research study that
listened to the voices of experienced clinical instructors.
Objective: The objective of the study was to describe effective mentoring approaches that instructors in a Post Licensed Practical
Nurse to Bachelor of Nursing (Post LPN to BN) program used to support students’ learning and build on their strengths during
instructor led clinical practicum courses.
Methods: The research was framed from a constructivist worldview and Laurent Daloz’s mentoring model. Digitally recorded
and transcribed interview data was collected from 10 clinical instructors who had been teaching for more than 5 years. The
transcripts were analyzed for themes which were confirmed with participants through member checking.
Results: Findings revealed that instructors supported students by validating individual strengths; challenged them by building on
those strengths; and created vision by linking their present activities to competencies needed in their own future practice.
Conclusions: These findings provide valuable insights and guidance to practicing Registered Nurses (RN’s) interested in teaching
non-traditional students during their clinical experiences
Hearables for online learning
Full text linkHearables are wireless smart micro-computers with artificial intelligence that incorporate both speakers and microphones. They fit in the ears and can connect to the Internet and to other devices; they are designed to be worn daily. One form of specialised hearables are the earphone language translators that offer potential in language teaching. This opens up the possibility of taking full advantage of these devices to support other forms of mobile learning ain both traditional and distance education. Hearables can support the delivery of lectures, educational podcasts, notifications, and reminders through a wide variety of applications, while supporting interactivity. Intelligent hearables can determine the context and choose the right time and place to deliver the best content. These devices can become one of the principal ways we interact in learning and provide continuous support for independent, personalised, just-in-time, and self-directed learning contexts
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Full text linkTechnology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster shows how we cannot talk about technology – that human-made monstrosity – today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster, McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular culture, and technology.Athabasca University, Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program, Social Science & Humanities Research Counci
"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom
No full textFrom James Rovira's introduction: "Mark A. McCutcheon shifts the locus of suffering to substance abuse in '"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom.' McCutcheon examines the commodification of the Romantic tropes of drug use and of the self-destructive artist using Nick Cave as a case study. The art/commerce opposition established within Romantic texts to emphasize the authenticity of the poet/artist has, according to McCutcheon, become a part of the commerce of the music industry in the form of a Roots-Rave-Rehab narrative that governs discourse about artists’ drug use and recovery. In other words, Romantic tropes have been appropriated to serve capitalist ends. McCutcheon’s chapter considers how Nick Cave both exploits and resists this appropriation using a number of strategies, including an exploitation and modification of the traditional Gothic/Romantic trope of the dead woman" (18)
