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22. UDL-From disabilities office to mainstream class: How the tools of a minority are addressing the aspirations of the student body at large
(Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2013)Confronted by the increasingly changing and varied nature of disabilities in Higher Education (Bowe, 2000; McGuire & Scott, 2002), Disability Service providers across North America are progressively moving away from targeted ... -
28-29 April 1944. HMCS Haida
(War Heritage Research Initiative, 2018-02-03)HMCS Haida is one of 27 tribal class ships built for the British, Canadian, and Australian navies in the 1930s and 1940s. It is the only one that survives today. The ship is now the focal point of Parks Canada’s HMCS Haida ... -
5 harm reduction tips for heroin users
(Verywell Mind, 2018-07-02)If you use heroin, you're taking your life into your hands every time you use. There are many risks and harms associated with heroin use and the drug trade that enables it. The only true way to avoid involving yourself in ... -
7 things you should know about the 2016 key issues in teaching and learning: Accessibility and Universal Design for learning
(Educause/ELI’s Key Issues, 2016)Since 2011, ELI’s Key Issues survey has been a way for the higher education teaching and learning community to discover the common ground that cuts across differences such as Carnegie Classification and FTE counts. The ELI ... -
Abne Praksisser Og Identitet – evidens fra forskeres og underviseres deltagelse i sociale medier
(Kognition & Paedagogik, 2014-06)The ways in which the new technologies and social media are used and perceived by researchers and teachers is insufficiently understood and explored. The aim of this study is to investigate individual researchers' ... -
Access, universal design and the sustainability of teaching practices: A powerful synchronicity of concepts at a crucial conjuncture for higher education
(Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies, 2017)Sustainability in Higher Education is usually interpreted as a concept applying solely to operations management and energy policy. Though the applicability of the concept to social justice is immediately tangible, few ... -
Addressing the challenges of transformation through sustainable investment
(Routledge, 2015)For much of the post-WWII era, financial crises flowed from the periphery of the global economy to core financial markets, disturbing equilibrium and challenging established practices (Barro, 2006). Over the last couple ... -
Adventure learning: Educational, social, and technological affordances for collaborative hybrid distance education
(Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2008)Adventure learning (AL) is a hybrid distance education approach that provides students with opportunities to explore real-world issues through authentic learning experiences within collaborative learning environments. ... -
Aerodrome of Democracy
(War Heritage Research Initiative, 2018-02-03)130,000 pilots and other aircrew through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) trained in Canada during the Second World War. Because of the wide-open spaces, proximity to American technology, and that it ... -
Amazed, appreciative, or ambivalent? Student and faculty perceptions of librarians embedded in online courses
(Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 2014-08-15)With the continuing trend toward university courses being offered online, there is corresponding need for academic librarians to support students in those digital spaces. We developed a sustainable model for embedding ... -
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing threats posed by mobile money
(Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2019)There has been an increase use of mobile money involving retail users and financial institutions (Scobey-Thal, 2015). In 2015, the GSMA (an organization that represent the interests of mobile operators worldwide) states ... -
The application of cognitive interviews to financial crimes
(Journal of Financial Crime, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to present an argument for the use of cognitive interviews to be use in financial crime investigations. In particular, the paper argues that the components of cognitive interview make it useful ... -
Assessment of pollution levels, potential ecological risk and human health risk of heavy metals/metalloids in dust around fuel filling stations from the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana
(Cogent Environmental Science, 2017)The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of selected heavy metals/ metalloids in filling station dust from the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. A total of forty (40) dust samples were analysed for Fe, Ti, Zn, Zr, Mn, ... -
Asset allocation and security selection in theory & in practice: A literature survey from a practitioner’s perspective
(Applied Finance and Accounting, 2015)Whether for the sake of trying to make a fortune or for the sake of knowledge, both practitioners and academicians have had interests in studying the behavior of financial time series data since the existence of financial ... -
Auditors’ liability and investors’ protection in Canada: The ‘leaky umbrella’
(Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice, 2018)In the spring of 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada (“Court”) rendered a decision in Hercules Managements Ltd. v. Ernst & Young [1997] (“Hercules”) that left shareholders out in the cold. Ever since the verdict in Hercules ... -
Authenticity and Children’s Engagement with Writing
(Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada, 2015)Authentic literacy activities engage children with meaningful reading and writing (Duke, Purcell-Gates, Hall, & Tower, 2006), but little investigation has been conducted into the relationship of the kinds of writing children ... -
Balancing Development and Conservation? An Assessment of Livelihood and Environmental Outcomes of Nontimber Forest Product Trade in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
(Resilience Alliance, 2006)This article addresses the question, to what extent and under which conditions nontimber forest product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. We based the analysis on a standardized ... -
The banks and market manipulation: A financial strain analysis of the libor fraud
(Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 2019)The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is considered to be the most important interest rate in finance upon which trillions in financial contracts are decided. In 2008, it was revealed that the LIBOR traders were rigging ... -
"Best practices" in teaching and learning: Challenging current paradigms and redefining their role in education
(College Quarterly, 2005)With pervasive and persistent changes affecting education, educators are called to challenge current paradigms about best practices in instructional design and delivery and redefine how they are integrated into the curriculum. ... -
Biases in charitable giving to international humanitarian aid: The role of psychic distance
(Journal of Macromarketing, 2018)At a time when government support for international humanitarian aid is decreasing, organizations devoted to helping in times of disaster are looking ever more to the individual donor for financial contributions. In this ...
