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The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education announced public access to its Digital Library. While currently the Digital Library allows free text searching, many information retrieval experts suggest that the use of a controlled...

Teachers in the Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project in northern Alberta, Canada, are teaching geographically separate classes in up to 5 schools, some over 100 km apart, using Virtual Presence Learning Environments (VPLEs). These...

Abstract: The Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project undertook an initiative to develop broadband synchronous and asynchronous technologies to a rural school district in northern Alberta, Canada. Relying on the recently installed...

Over the 2003/2004 academic year, the Teaching with Technology in the Faculty of Education (FTTE) website [http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ttfe] was developed. The main objective for this project was to provide a professional development model for...

Distance learning is becoming an increasingly important mode of delivery for many institutions. Through distance courses, institutions are able to offer adult students the flexibility they require. The University of Alberta's Faculty of Education...

The Technology Professional Development group of the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta is a unique program that provides just-in-time professional development support to all faculty members, administrators, sessional instructors and...

In the fall of 2007, the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) at the University of Alberta set out to provide infrastructure and support to a cohort of rural pre-service teachers doing their teacher education program at Blue Quills First...