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Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, andBeth Perry teach in the Faculty of Health Disciplinesat Athabasca University. Melrose has published widely on educatinghealth professionals and is a winner of the Canadian Association ofSchools of Nursing Award for Excellence in Nursing Education. Parkdeveloped her first online nursing course for the University ofManitoba in 1997 and has subsequently developed and taught many coursesfor Athabasca University. P...

Manijeh Mannani is chair of the Centre forHumanities and associate professor of English and comparativeliterature at Athabasca University, as well as adjunct professor ofcomparative literature at the University of Alberta. She specializes inthe poetry of Rumi and is the author of Divine Deviants: The Dialecticsof Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi. She is also the co-editorof Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts andCul...

Sue Gregory is associate professor and chair ofresearch in the School of Education at the University of New England, Australia. She lectures in ICT education, conducts research on the useof virtual worlds for learning and teaching, and leads the Australiaand New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group.Mark J.W. Lee, adjunct senior lecturer with theSchool of Education at Charles Sturt University and immediate pasteditor-in-chief of MERLOT¿s Journa...

Raphael Foshay has been teaching in Athabasca University¿s MA Program in Integrated Studies since 2008. His interests lie principally in literary, cultural, and interdisciplinary theory. He has written on Derrida, Hegel, Heidegger, and Levinas, as well as such literary figures as Joyce, Yeats, Kafka, and Wyndham Lewis and is the editor of Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy.Contributors: Ian Angus, Maria Bakardjieva, Da...

An interdisciplinary volume that explores Indigenous women's environmental knowledge and how that knowledge is often marginalized by ethnocentric research paradigms and legal processes that focus on male economic interactions with the environment.

The story of the highly complex process of of sacred objects to Aboriginal peoples from the Glenbow Museum.

Norman J. Temple, professor of nutrition at AthabascaUniversity and has published more than 60 papers, predominantly in thearea of nutrition as it relates to health, and has published more thana dozen books. Currently, he is conducting collaborative research inCape Town on the role of the changing diet in South Africa and on thepattern of chronic diseases in that country. NeliaSteyn lives and works in South Africa. She is a seniorlecturer in t...

Michael Keren is a professor and Canada Research Chairin the Department of Political Science and the Department ofCommunication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He is theauthor of many books on public intellectuals, political communication, and political literature, including Blogosphere: The New PoliticalArena and The Citizen¿s Voice: Twentieth-CenturyPolitics and Literature. Richard Hawkins isprofessor in the Science, Technology and...

Meenal Shrivastava is associate professor ofpolitical economy and global studies at Athabasca University.Lorna Stefanick is a professor at Athabasca Universitywhere she serves as coordinator for the Governance, Law, and Managementprogram.Contributors: Ricardo Acu¿a, Bob Barnetson, SaraDorow, Josh Evans, Jason Foster, Joy Fraser, Trevor Harrison, PaulKellogg, Manijeh Mannani, Gabrielle Slowey, Peter (Jay) Smith, MeenalShrivastava, Lorna Stefani...

Charlene Elliott is professor in the Department ofCommunication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary and CanadaResearch Chair in Food Marketing, Policy and Children¿sHealth.Contributors: Ken Albala, Elizabeth Baird, Jacqueline Botterill, Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed, CatherineCarstairs, ¿ Nathalie Cooke, Pierre Desrochers, John Gilchrist, Josh Greenberg, Shannon King, Stephen Kline, Jordan Lebel, HarveyLevenstein, Wayne McCready, Irina ...

Mike Gismondi is professor of sociology and globalstudies in the Centre for Social Sciences at Athabasca University.Sean Connelly is currently lecturer in geography atthe University of Otago and a research associate with the Centre forSustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University.Mary Beckie is an associate professor in theUniversity of Alberta¿s Faculty of Extension. SeanMarkey is an associate professor with the School of Resou...

Offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research.

George Veletsianos is an associate professor atRoyal Roads University and holds a Canada Research Chair in InnovativeLearning and Technology. His research is dedicated to understanding thepractices and experiences of learners, educators, and scholars inemerging online settings. His presentations, publications, and mostrecent thoughts on education can be found at www.veletsianos.com.Contributors to the volume include Terry Anderson, R. S. Baker...

Mohamed Ally is a professor in the Centre for DistanceEducation at Athabasca University in Canada. He is on the board of boththe International Association of Mobile Learning and the InternationalFederation of Training and Development.

Max Foran is a Professor in the Faculty ofCommunication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has writtenextensively on various western Canadian urban, rural, and culturaltopics, most recently on ranching, urban growth, and sustainability.

Terry Anderson is a professor and Canada ResearchChair in Distance Education at Athabasca University. He has publishedextensively in the area of distance education and educationaltechnology.

Jack W. Brink is Archaeology Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Canada. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. from the University of Alberta. His interests also include the study of rock art images of the northern Plains, and he enjoys working with Aboriginal communities on heritage issues.

A captivating portrait - in his own words - of Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978), who reinvented himself as a Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.

Investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 days every July. This book contains essays examining a facet of the experience - from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. It also reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary.

Jack W. Brink is Archaeology Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Canada. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. from the University of Alberta. His interests also include the study of rock art images of the northern Plains, and he enjoys working with Aboriginal communities on heritage issues.