Implementing Mobile Environments using Learning Objects: The Athabasca University Digital Reading Room

Paper presented at the IEEE WMTE 2005.This investigation determined some of the better strategies for delivering educational resources to mobile devices from the Digital Reading Room (DRR) and the Athabasca University(AU) library catalogue using AirPac, making recommendations on the implementation of Mlearning as part of the AU e-learning strategy. The primary research question addressed in this short paper is What are the limitations and difficulties in delivering course materials to mobile devices

Digital Preservation and COPPUL Libraries

2 p. position paper prepared for COPPUL member directors for discussion at the Fall 2007 meeting

Open access archives and repositories

Governments and research funding organizations are increasingly reluctant to fund research that is not widely distributed and affordable, creating the need for repositories through which scholars can legally distribute their research results and data. Steve Schafer, director of Athabasca University Library, will discuss how open access relates to and enhances library services. Tony Tin, founder of Athabasca University's repository, AU Space, will talk about and demonstrate AU’s growing collection and discuss the challenges and opportunities of self-archiving

The Athabasca University Digital Reading Room: Library resources for mobile students

This project has been designed to test the boundaries of Mlearning and to begin to build a platform for AU to raise an effective m-library. Building on the research conducted in Canada and abroad, the researchers are investigating PDAs and learning objects in order to maximize the potential of Mlearning. What constitutes an effective Mlibrary? Within the limits of this research investigation, an effective Mlibrary must store the contents in a format accessible and configurable by a wide variety of devices and software applications. Special programming is required to implement optimal delivery on a variety of devices and software applications. What resources can be made available in the Mlibrary (content and resource development)? It seems that a wide variety of resource types can be made available on mobile devices subject to formatting limitations. With appropriate programming there are few if any limitations on text displays and only size-comfort limitations on graphics, sound, and video. What are the technical difficulties in implementing the DRR on mobile devices? Because of the difference in the operating systems and the pocket browsers in the PPC and the POS, the CSS stylesheet cannot be implementd in a generic manner. This causes difficulties in designing accessibily/usabilty features for the two different systems

Urban SAFE50: Modeling, Controlling, and Testing Safe UAS Operations in Low Altitude Settings

The research and development of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are quickly progressing as industries and hobbyist societies recognize their utility. NASA is focused on the technology development and safety considerations surrounding commercial use of UAVs. Urban SAFE50 (Safe Autonomous Flight Environment within the notional last 50 feet of operation of 55 pound class UAS (Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems)) is focused on the necessary real-time decision algorithms and flight models prevalent in low-altitude, high-density city environments. Construction of on-board controls to respond to motor failure and wind dynamics as well as a database of computational flight models and battery discharge profiles will help policymakers to predict and regulate unmanned aircraft flight safely and effectively

The Athabasca University edusource Project: Building An Accessible Learning Object Repository

Athabasca University - Canada's Open University (AU) made the commitment to put all of its courses online as part of its Strategic University Plan. In pursuit of this goal, AU participated in the eduSource project, a pan-Canadian effort to build the infrastructure for an interoperable network of learning object repositories. AU acted as a leader in the eduSource work package, responsible for the metadata and standards for learning objects. In addition, the team of professionals, academics, librarians and other researchers worked to create an accessible repository of learning objects across university departments and subjects. Most critically, the team worked beyond the development of a learning object repository and considered the adaptation of content and related applications, pedagogical approaches and the use of learning objects by instructional designers, faculty and the learners themselves. This paper describes one institution's approach to learning object repository development, from a technical and pedagogical perspective, along with some of the lessons learned during the process

Edusource: Canada's Learning Object Repository Network

An alliance of Canadian Universities and government agencies pooled their resources to establish a network to share and combine Learning Objects from a variety of sources and further develop this technology. In the process, they resolved many learning, logistical, and legal problems and moved this technology forward by an order of magnitude. Principal goals include: nationwide interoperability, network of repositories, linked servers, repository software programs, national and international standards, digital rights management, business and management models, evaluation and feedback, dissemination of results, and bilingual access to all Canadians, particularly learners with disabilities. The defined tasks were sub-divided into nine work packages, each with a lead institution as package manager

The Grizzly, April 14, 1989

Middle States: What To Look For At U.C. • Sorority Songfest Continues • Letters: Lack of MACLAS Coverage Disturbing; I.D. Hassles; We Smell a Rat! • Middle States Closing Offers Suggestions • Canterbury Corner too Costly • Lacrosse Braces for Traditional Rivalry • Outmanned, But Still Best • Tennis Turns Tables • Ursinus Sweeps • Men\u27s Lax Gets Physical • Cinders Burnin\u27 Down the House • Guess Who\u27s Coming to Dinner? • Branker Wins Jazz Fellowship • MACLAS Meeting Absolute Success • Sternal: Functional Art at U.C. • Cyclists Rolling to Victories • Pilgrim Continues U.C. Evaluation • Admissions Reception • Grant to Give Biology a Boost • The Music Scenehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1235/thumbnail.jp

CIB2 Interacts with TMC1 and TMC2 and is Essential for Mechanotransduction in Auditory Hair Cells

Inner ear hair cells detect sound through deflection of stereocilia, the microvilli-like projections that are arranged in rows of graded heights. Calcium and integrin-binding protein 2 is essential for hearing and localizes to stereocilia, but its exact function is unknown. Here, we have characterized two mutant mouse lines, one lacking calcium and integrin-binding protein 2 and one carrying a human deafness-related Cib2 mutation, and show that both are deaf and exhibit no mechanotransduction in auditory hair cells, despite the presence of tip links that gate the mechanotransducer channels. In addition, mechanotransducing shorter row stereocilia overgrow in hair cell bundles of both Cib2 mutants. Furthermore, we report that calcium and integrin-binding protein 2 binds to the components of the hair cell mechanotransduction complex, TMC1 and TMC2, and these interactions are disrupted by deafness-causing Cib2 mutations. We conclude that calcium and integrin-binding protein 2 is required for normal operation of the mechanotransducer channels and is involved in limiting the growth of transducing stereocilia

The Grizzly, February 17, 1989

Malicious Arson Attempt Suspected In Fire • Board of Dirs. Calls for Big, but Beneficial Bucks • Letter: Let\u27s Keep Campbell! • WVOU Far From FM Waves • Glastnost Russian Roulette? • Freeman Displays Her Patchwork • Grim: No Meal Like a Home Meal • Drug Awareness a Downer • Title in Sight • Wrestlers Cruising at Unprecedented 21-2 • \u27Nasts O.K. • Intro. to Judaism Offered • Women\u27s Indoor Crushes \u27Em • Men\u27s Track \u27Sloshing\u27 Along • Aquabears Paddlin\u27 Wellhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1229/thumbnail.jp