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- Rajiv Jhangiani (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-09-10
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- This document outlines a vision and strategy for KPU’s open education initiatives. It was developed in collaboration with members of the KPU Open Education Working Group along with other key internal and external stakeholders and in conjunction with Vison 2023 and Academic Plan 2018-2023. In the...
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- Deirdre Maultsaid (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2022-05-06
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- Andrea Niosi (Author), KPU Marketing 4201 Class of Summer 2020 (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2023-11-14
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- The Open Guide to Integrated Marketing Communications is an OER that was written and edited by KPU students in 2020. It covers a range of topics related to designing and launching integrated marketing campaigns, such as research, audience segmentation, creative briefs, content calendars, and more...
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- Sarah Murray (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-01-01
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- This study guide is designed to accompany the Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition open text by Jennifer Walinga and Charles Stangor. For each chapter it summarizes the learning objectives and presents multiple-choice, true-false and fill-in-the-blank test of the material covered. It...
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- Pin Ju Rachel Chen (Author), Mike Larsen (Thesis advisor)
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- immigration law, refugee policy, security certificates, Syrian refugee crisis, construction of non-citizens, admissibility, inadmissibility, security, politicization of immigration, Access to Information
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- While legal discourse commonly interprets ‘admissibility’ as ‘inadmissibility’ within Canadian immigration law and policy, this research explores ‘admissibility’ as a concept of its own and how it is implemented through Canadian immigration practice. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act...
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- Olena Orlova (Author), Daniel Friedlander (Author), Shelby Baertl (Author), Jordyn Steeves (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-07-29
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- Negatively-valenced emotional expressions (NVEE) are identified by the use of extreme language, emoticons, bold lettering, capitalization, and exclamation marks. When used in online review forums, NVEE are indicative of the severity of negative reviews, which may be perceived as less valid than...
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- Pallavi Nair (Author), Mary Langhorst (Author), Caitlin Van Kesteren (Author), Dennis Wang (Author), Emma Silversides (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-07-29
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- Research regarding biases against the transgender community is growing in the field of psychology, with one of the focal points being attraction. This study was conducted to determine if individuals are perceived as less attractive when identified as transgender, rather than cisgender. A between...
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- Jana Skorstengaard (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-04
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- prison, feminist theory, corrections, alternative interventions, correctional programs, women, Indigenous women, Corrections Canada
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- Prisons are spaces of violence that strip autonomy and a sense of personal identity from prisoners. Art and arts-based programming can not only be a way to combat the monotony of prison life, but to build communication skills, increase self-esteem, and help prisoners to build better relationships...
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- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author), I-Chant A Chiang (Author), Carrie Cuttler (Author), Dana C Leighton (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-08-01
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- Melissa Ashman (Author), Arley Cruthers (Author), Sarah Duncan (Author), John Grant (Author), Karen Inkster Vance (Author), Panteli Tritchew (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-12-17
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- Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links,...
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- Kwantlen Polytechnic University Learning Centres (Author), Christina Page (Author), Adam Vincent (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-08-25
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- Learning to Learn Online helps you prepare for online learning success by introducing you to the online learning environment and your role as a learner within it. As you come to understand yourself as an self-directed learner, you will also be introduced to effective learning strategies: time...
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- Celia Brinkerhoff (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-08-01
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- A modules-based approach to learning research skills that emphasizes the reflective nature of information discovery, the contextual basis for evaluation that information, and a recognition that information has value.
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- Kwantlen Polytechnic University Department of Criminology (Degree granting institution), Justine Nelson (author)
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- climate change, green criminology, environmental activism, denial, British Columbia
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- Our society is in collective denial about the extreme threat that climate change presents to the future of our world. Capitalism creates a culture that is based on the exploitation of people and the earth for profit, and as citizens living within this culture we use denial to shield ourselves...
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- Arley Cruthers (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2020-05-07
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- Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing lesson genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains...
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- Dawn-Leah L. McDonald (author)
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- production effect, memory, distinctiveness, strength, proportions
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- The production effect occurs when producing items enhances memory relative to reading items silently. Although the most common mode of production used in research has been “reading aloud”, singing, mouthing, whispering, writing, typing, and spelling out also produce a memory advantage....
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- Michelle Nakano (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2020-02-13
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- Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Identify Plant Requirements is an adaptation of KPU HORT 1155 Introduction to Plant Materials Lecture Notes. This first edition supports student achievement of the Level 1 and 2 learning goals for Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Line F2.
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- Victor Yao (Author), Lisa Freeman (Thesis advisor)
- Date Issued
- 2017-06-26
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- cannabis, medicinal cannabis, zoning, municipal bylaws, legal ecosystem, dispensaries, agribusiness, War on Drugs, legalization, city council, justification, ideology
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- This thesis examined the development and application of urban bylaws, in this case the City of Delta’s, which regulate properties commonly hosting growing operations or laboratories producing and handling federally-listed controlled substances such as marijuana. The project was largely...
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- Brad C Anderson (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2020-01-06
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- The book presents novel research results in the dynamics if values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks to understand others’ actions within their environment. Armed with the knowledge of how values, rationality, and power...
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- Amanda R Dumoulin (Author), Jonathan B K Lau (Author), Brandon J Justus (Author), Shayna A Rusticus (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-07-29
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- Self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) refers to the degree to which learners are ready to be accountable for their own learning and learning needs and is a skill that students can develop. Understanding student levels of SDLR can help optimize the learning environment for more effective...
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- Natalie Wade (Author), Alice Macpherson (Author), Barry MacKenzie (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2016-10
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