Desire2Learn Essays

  • University Of Waterloo: A Career As An Architect

    724 Words  | 2 Pages

    Mike Lazaridis is co-founder of BlackBerry, Kevin O’Leary is known as former design on CBC’s Dragon’s Den, Martha Lenio who is the first Canadian and the first woman to lead a simulated Mars mission, John Baker who is the founder and president of Desire2Learn known as D2L, Marie Bountrogianni is a dean of the college, David Cheriton is a computer science professor at Stanford University, Steven Woods is an engineer in the Google office, Susan Tighe who is a civil engineer, Heather Moyse is a gold-medal

  • Learning Within E-learning Ecosystems

    1468 Words  | 3 Pages

    ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the critical success factors within an e-learning ecosystems namely the principles and methods, processes and systems, and substance and content of teaching and learning. A qualitative approach was adopted to evaluate the critical success factors involving two principal data collection methods; a thorough and systematic review literature and in-depth interviews with e-learning providers. The interviewees corroborated the need for an effective model of e-learning in

  • What Is Academic Dishonesty

    1950 Words  | 4 Pages

    Academic Honesty 9 professors appear to be unconcerned about their class, the incidence of cheating increases (Stuber-McEwen et al., 2009). Additionally, instructors who are permissive, unduly difficult or are considered unfair are more at risk to have their students be dishonest (Stuber-McEwen et al., 2009). On the contrary, Stuber-McEwen et al. (2009) found that professors who are closer to their students and develop positive, honest relationships are less likely to have incidences of academic

  • The Importance Of Openness In Personality

    4291 Words  | 9 Pages

    Introduction Personality is tricky to study, for traits are difficult to define and measure. However, insight into one's own character is possible by analyzing stable and consistent styles of thinking, feeling, and responding to situations (Urland, 2018a). Although research in social psychology has shown that the situation can largely impact an individual's behavior, the persistence of particular predispositions to respond a certain way within similar situations and contexts makes personality traits