Event/Location

(All events at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel)

All Workshop Sessions to be held in the MacKenzie Room - located on the 3rd Floor - Mall entrance. All meeting and meal rooms located to the right of Elephant Castle Resturant.

Official opening greetings and social:

by Athabasca University
(No-host bar available)

Laurier Room - located on the 3rd Floor - Mall entrance. Room located to the right of Elephant Castle Resturant.

Breakfast
Champlain Room

Session 1a: UMLAUT-M: Understanding mobile learning at Athabasca University through MobiGlam (45 mins, 8:30 - 9:15)

• Marguerite L. Koole, Dr. Mohamed Ally and Janice Letkemen Mcquilkin

Session 1b: Broadening their horizons: Preparing police leaders to conduct dependable qualitative research (45 mins, 9:15 - 10:00)

• Cynthia Blodgett and Norm Taylor

Break
Champlain Room

Session 2a: The Getting Online (GO) Project (90 mins, 10:30 - 12:00)

• Deborah Morgan, Lynn Best, Dr. Patrick J. Fahy, Joanne Kaattari, Vicki Trottier, and Diana Twiss 
  

Lunch
Champlain Room

Session 3a: The confounding dimensions of the learner in middle life (45 mins, 1:30 - 2:15)

• Norm Taylor
  

Session 3b: Distance education and training offerings in remote communities of Alberta (45 mins, 2:15 - 3:00)

• Dr. Patrick J. Fahy and Nancy Steel

Break
Champlain Room

Session 4a: Integrating e-portfolios into the MDE Program: A pilot study (45 mins, 3:30 - 4:15)

• Dr. Madhumita Bhattacharya, Dr. Debra Hoven, Dr. Susan Moisey, Dr. Richard Kenny, Dr. Terry Anderson, Marguerite Koole, MDE
  

Session 4b: Developing and piloting eight online courses of the Life and Work Educational Model (Modelo de Educación para la Vida y el Trabajo, MEVyT), at the National Institute for Adult Education in Community Plazas in Mexico (45 mins, 4:15 - 5:00)

• Citlalli Berruecos Carranza and Luz María Castro Mussot

Dinner
Champlain Room

Breakfast
Champlain Room

Session 5a: Language teaching at a distance: the enabling potentials of technology (90 mins, 8:00 - 9:30)

• Dr. Debra Hoven

Break
Champlain Room

Session 6a: Research regarding the Community of Inquiry:  Back to the future (45 mins, 10:00 - 10:45)

• Deborah Russell and Dr. Marti Cleveland-Innes
  

Session 6b: Adaptive technologies (45 mins, 10:45-11:30)

• Dr. Susan Moisey

Lunch
Champlain Room

Session 7a: An exploratory study of mobile learning in nursing practice education (45 mins, 1:00 - 1:45)

• Dr. Richard Kenny
  

Session 7b: Group networks and collectives - getting the right e-learning tools for the right crowd (45 mins, 1:45 - 2:30)

• Dr. Terry Anderson

Break
Champlain Room

Session 8a: Distance education in Asia (45 mins, 3:00 - 3:45)

• Dr. Jon Baggaley

Session 8b: Enhancing scholarly communication: A new paradigm for research and innovation in 2008 (45 mins, 3:45 - 4:30)

• Litsa Kostouros