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Athabasca University

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Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian university specializing in online distance education and one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta. [1]

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Alberta Advanced Education

Alberta Advanced Education (Previously named as Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education, and Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education) is a ministry in the Executive Council of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Alberta Legislature

The Legislature of Alberta is the legislature of the province of Alberta, Canada.

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Alyn McCauley

Alyn Daniel McCauley (born May 29, 1977) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for ten years with the Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks, and the Los Angeles Kings.

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Association of Commonwealth Universities

The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) was established in 1913, and has over 500 member institutions in over 50 countries across the Commonwealth.

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Athabasca, Alberta

Athabasca (2016 population 2,965), originally named Athabasca Landing, is a town in northern Alberta, Canada.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model.

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada Research Chair

Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.

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Canadian Bureau for International Education

The Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) is an education service provider based in Ottowa, Ontario.

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Canadian University Press

Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by more than 50 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada.

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Canadian Virtual University

The Canadian Virtual University-Université virtuelle canadienne (CVU-UVC) is a consortium of Canadian universities that collectively offer 2500 courses and over 300 complete degrees, diplomas, and certificates online and through distance education.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Christian Farstad

Christian Farstad (born 10 June 1969) is a two-time Canadian olympian in the sport of bobsleigh.

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Connectivism

Connectivism is a theory of learning in a digital age that emphasizes the role of social and cultural context in how and where learning occurs.

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Correctional Service of Canada

The Correctional Service Canada (Service correctionnel du Canada), also known as Corrections Canada or CSC, is the Canadian federal government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted criminal offenders sentenced to two years or more.

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Debby Carlson

Debby Carlson is a former Liberal MLA in Alberta, who represented the electoral district of Edmonton Ellerslie from 1993 to 2004.

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Distance education

Distance education or long-distance learning is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school.

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Doctor of Education

The Doctor of Education (EdD or DEd; Latin Educationis Doctor or Doctor Educationis) is a doctoral degree that has a research focus in the field of education.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Educational technology

Educational technology is "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources".

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Elgg

Elgg is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ernest Manning

Ernest Charles Manning, (September 20, 1908 – February 19, 1996), a Canadian politician, was the eighth premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta.

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Faculty (academic staff)

Faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British, Australia, and New Zealand usage) are the academic staff of a university: professors of various ranks, lecturers, and/or researchers.

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First Nations

In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.

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Fort McMurray

Fort McMurray is a population centre, technically classified as an urban service area, in the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada.

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George Siemens

George Siemens is a writer, theorist, speaker, and researcher on learning, networks, technology, analytics and visualization, openness, and organizational effectiveness in digital environments.

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Grant MacEwan

John Walter Grant MacEwan, (August 12, 1902 – June 15, 2000) was a farmer, Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Dean of Agriculture at the University of Manitoba, the 28th Mayor of Calgary and both a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Canada.

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Higher education in Alberta

Higher education in Alberta refers to the post secondary education system for the province of Alberta.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada, also known as Native Canadians or Aboriginal Canadians, are the indigenous peoples within the boundaries of present-day Canada.

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International Association of Universities

The International Association of Universities (IAU) is a membership-led non-governmental organization working in the field of higher education.

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International Council for Open and Distance Education

The International Council for Open and Distance Education, or ICDE, is a global membership organisation in the field of open and distance education, and in formal consultative relations with UNESCO.

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Joseph Pivato

Joseph Pivato (born February 8, 1946, in Tezze sul Brenta, Italy) is a Canadian writer and academic who first established the critical recognition of Italian-Canadian literature and changed perceptions of Canadian writing.

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Keyano College

Keyano College is a post-secondary college located in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

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Learning analytics

Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs.

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Learning management system

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses or training programs.

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Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta is the viceregal representative in Alberta of the.

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List of universities in Canada

Universities in Canada are established and operate under provincial government charters.

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Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canadian news magazine that was founded in 1905, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.

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Martin Connors

Martin Gerard Connors (born 1954) is a Canadian astronomer and professor.

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Métis

The Métis are members of ethnic groups native to Canada and parts of the United States that trace their descent to indigenous North Americans and European settlers.

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Middle States Commission on Higher Education

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (abbreviated as MSCHE and legally incorporated as the Mid-Atlantic Region Commission on Higher Education) is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association that performs peer evaluation and accreditation of public and private universities and colleges in selected regions of the United States and foreign institutions of American origin.

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Milaine Thériault

Milaine Thériault (born November 14, 1973 in St. Quentin, New Brunswick) is a Canadian skier.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Moodle

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system (LMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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Neil Fassina

Dr.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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North Island College

North Island College (NIC) is a community college located primarily on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Open Door Policy

The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century that would allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries equally.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Open-door academic policy

An open-door academic policy, or open-door policy, is a policy if a university accepting to enroll students without asking for evidence of previous education, experience, or references.

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Orange (colour)

Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light.

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Order in Council

An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms.

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Peter Lougheed

Edgar Peter Lougheed,, (July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Preston Manning

Ernest Preston Manning, (born June 10, 1942) is an Alberta-based conservative Canadian politician.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (often referred to colloquially as Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta) was a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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Ralph Klein

Ralph Phillip Klein, (November 1, 1942 March 29, 2013) was a Canadian politician who served as the 12th Premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Samuel Smith (academic)

Walter Alvah Samuel Smith, aka Samuel Smith, was the second President of Athabasca University, and in 1984 was awarded an honorary degree from that institution.

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Social Sciences Citation Index

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics.

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St. Albert, Alberta

St.

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Syncrude

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is one of the world's largest producers of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada.

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Tim Byrne

Tim Clarke Byrne (1907 – 1997; also known as T. C. Byrne) was the first President of Athabasca University.

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Tracey Lindberg

Tracey Lindberg is a Canadian academic writer and teacher, from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation in British Columbia.

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Undergraduate education

Undergraduate education is the post-secondary education previous to the postgraduate education.

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Universities Canada

Universities Canada (Universités Canada) is an organization that represents Canada's colleges and universities.

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University of Alberta

The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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University of Calgary

The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC), is a public research university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system.

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University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge (also known as uLethbridge, uLeth, and U of L) is a publicly funded comprehensive academic and research university, founded in the liberal education tradition, located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with a second campus in the city of Calgary, Alberta.

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University of the Arctic

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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WestGrid

WestGrid is a government-funded infrastructure program started in 2003, mainly in Western Canada, that provides institutional research faculty and students access to high performance computing and distributed data storage, using a combination of grid, networking, and collaboration tools.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_University

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