Predictions for 2008
e-Learn Magazine
Annual look at e-learning's near future trends and developments by 23 experts and prognosticators.

Ten Tips for Getting Learners to Take E-Courses
Learning Circuits Magazine
Discusses practical strategies and incentives to promote employee usage of e-learning within corporations and other organizations.

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
Educause Review
The authors argue that the Open Educational Resources movement and Web 2.0 resources are creating new kinds of open participatory learning ecosystems that will support active, passion-based learning: Learning 2.0.

Implementing Educational Technology in Higher Education: A Strategic Approach
Journal of Educators Online (JEO)
Outlines a four-step framework for a strategic change process that can be used by educators for selecting and implementing educational technologies within their setting, in particular, online course management systems.

Course Assessment Practices and Student Learning Strategies in Online Courses
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Examines the relationship between student assessment methods and learning strategies in 60 online courses and suggests ways that assessment practices lead to different types of learning.

New Levels of Student Participatory Learning: A WikiText for the Introductory Course in Education
Journal of Online Interactive Learning
Describes the reactions of students to using wiki tools to collaboratively write their own textbook in an education course and the impact on their involvement in learning.

Creativity in Online Courses: Perceptions of MBA Students
Journal of Online Teaching and Learning
Investigates perceptions of how online courses enhance or detract from the development of creative thinking and innovation among business students.

Developing an International Distance Education Program: A Blended Learning Approach
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Describes how universities in two countries used a seven-phase model to co-develop an international, blended learning program that considered cultural differences in language, teaching philosophy, and education.

Analyze This!
Learning Circuits
Discusses new web analytics software that enables e-learning developers to collect metrics on learner engagement in online courses, including time spent on individual course pages and media components.

Accommodating Culture and Cultural Diversity in Online Teaching
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET)
Reports on a project aimed at understanding cultural characteristics and what strategies are effective in teaching a culturally diverse cohort of online students.

Learning to Feel: Education, Affective Outcomes and the Use of Online Teaching and Learning
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning (EURODL)
Compares the results of two pilot courses using different online delivery modes for soft skill development and affective gain in customer service training in the workplace.

Active Learning and Technology: Designing Change for Faculty, Students, and Institutions
Educause Review
Discusses the importance of faculty development in continuously improving and sustaining shifts in pedagogy, and describes strategies for overcoming resistance to change. Also in this issue see Faculty 2.0 which describes some of the ways technology is changing the teaching role in higher education.

The Online Learner: Characteristics and Pedagogical Implications
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
Describes the emerging characteristics of the online learner, the skills needed to learn online, and the pedagogical implications for dialogical models that support learning.

Open Courseware Futures: Creating a Parallel Universe
E-Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (e-JIST)
Examines major organizations involved in the open source and open courseware movement and discusses implications for increasing global access to knowledge.

Special Theme Issue: Social Network Sites
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Describes features of social network websites, presents a history of their development, reviews existing scholarship, and profiles examples.

Special Issue on Online Learning in K-12 Schools and Teacher Education
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Contains six papers emphasizing online learning applications in K-12 environments, including teacher experiences, differences between online and blended learning, collaborative activity design, and a survey of administrators.

Current Administrative Structures Used for Online Degree Program Offerings in Higher Education
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
This study of more than 300 institutions identifies the nature and extent of six general administrative structures currently used by colleges and universities in offering fully online degrees.

Key Elements of Building Online Community: Comparing Faculty and Student Perceptions
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Reports the survey results of fourteen online courses asking instructors and students their perceptions about the challenges and essential elements of community in online classes. Both groups viewed community as very important but differed in their rankings of essential elements.

Implementing Authentic Tasks in Web-Based Learning Environments
Educause Quarterly
Describes the characteristics of authentic activities, task design, and facilitation tips to improve student interaction and learning outcomes.

Adventure Learning: Situating Learning in an Authentic Context
Innovate: Journal of Online Education
Describes a learning project that connected students to explorers and researchers participating in a trans-Arctic dogsled expedition to provide students with opportunities to explore real-world issues through authentic learning experiences.

Evaluation and Application of Andragogical Assumptions to the Adult Online Learning Environment
Journal of Interactive Online Learning
Analyzes the major principles of andragogy and discusses why they are an ideal starting point for educators to use in creating a learner centered approach to online education.

Understanding E-Learning 2.0
Learning Circuits
Introduces the basic concepts, technologies, and changes represented by e-learning 2.0 in order to inform workplace learning professionals about the possibilities.

Dialogue-Intensive Learning
eLearn Magazine
Compares three online discussion models and provides tips for creating, managing, and sustaining a "dialogue-intensive" model that fosters interaction.

Simulation-Based Training: The Evidence is In
Chief Learning Officer
Reviews earlier research on the effectiveness of computer-based simulations that provides a foundation for today's new generation of virtual learning developers of simulations and games.

Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) in Web-based Classes: Preliminary Findings and a Call for Further Research
Journal of Educators Online
Discusses why SETs may be lower for online classes compared to on-campus classes and the implications for instructor training in online teaching and administrative support for course design, content organization, and editing.

A Web 2.0 Learning Platform: Harnessing Collective Intelligence
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Compares the differences in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century learning models and argues that e-learning standards need to consider the community-generating content and social networking capabilities of new Web technologies.

Theme Issue on Mobile Learning
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
The papers in this special issue clarify the concept of mobile learning, discuss developments to date, and describe applications around the world.

Walk this Way: Healthcare Leads the Way in Mobile Learning
Learning Circuits
This study reports on the use of mobile devices for a variety of health care applications, and points to increasing usage for keeping up-to-date with best medical practices, anytime-anywhere information availability, and personalized learning.

Podcasts: Improving Quality and Accessibility
THE Journal
Discusses tips and tools for improving the audio, content, and speaker presentation quality of podcasts, along with making them more accessible to learners with disabilities.

Teaching Online: Three Perspectives, Three Approaches
AACE Journal
Three case studies describe differing approaches to online teaching, including techniques, lessons learned, and examples of interaction activities.

E-Learning at the Crossroads: What Price Quality?
Educause Quarterly
Discusses several challenges facing the rapid growth of distance education, including the role of part-time instructors, program quality, faculty incentives and disincentives, and willingness for institutional innovation.

Leadership Influence on Corporate Change Involving Distance Training
Online Journal of Distance Education Administration
Examines the set of skills needed by corporate learning leaders to sustain distance learning programs within their organizations.

Wiki as a Teaching Tool
Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects
Explains wiki usage, investigates its contribution to various learning paradigms, and examines the current literature on wiki use in education.

A Conceptual Model for Understanding Self-Directed Learning in Online Environments
Journal of Interactive Online Learning
Introduces a framework for understanding self-directed learning in online learning contexts and discusses Implications for research and practice.

Predicting Student Satisfaction in Distance Education and Learning Environments
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Describes a study using the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) as a research instrument to evaluate the characteristics of online learning environments.

Serving the Online Learner
Campus Technology
Presents examples of online advising and support services that promote a relationship between the e-learner and the institution.

Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation
techLearning
If the digital native is constantly evolving, how can educators keep up?

Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning Environments:
Insights from Brain Research and Pedagogical Theory
Innovate
Suggests ways online technology can help educators create learning environments that respect student needs, foster collaboration, and promote deeperlevels of engagement with the course content (register online for free subscription).

Confronting Challenges in Online Teaching: The WebQuest Solution
MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Describes how WebQuests were used to engage nursing students in authentic scenarios that integrated several learning outcomes within a single assignment.

Mitigating Conflict in Online Student Teams
eLearn Magazine
Presents basic guidelines for preventing team conflicts before they happen and resolving them when they do.

Entering the Interaction Age: Implementing a Future Vision for Campus Learning Spaces
Educause Review
Argues we are moving from an Information Age to an Interaction Age where technology not only supports human-to-human interaction but also provides tools for people to interact around and through information.

eLearning: Going the Distance
THE Journal
Discusses why virtual schools are here to stay by offering students freedom of time, space, and pace, and the potential for better academic performance.

Invisible Motivation of Online Adult Learners During Contract Learning
Journal of Educators Online
Study found students felt more self-directed and motivated during contract learning, but what they really liked was being able to select assignments that were relevant to their interests.

Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Despite students' preferences for instructor feedback, giving peer feedback reinforces their learning and the quality of students' postings.

From Application to Graduation and Beyond: Exploring User Engagement with e-Portfolios
European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL)
Examines the use of e-portfolios within different education and work contexts, including students' attitudes, their engagement with e-portfolio tools, and benefits for skills development.

The Problem with Rapid E-Learning
Learning Circuits
Explores some of the pitfalls of rapid e-learning and how to overcome them. Also see Rapid E-Learning Grows Up for tool enhancements with a positive impact.

Combined Effect of Instructional and Learner Variables on Course Outcomes within An Online Learning Environment
Journal of Online Interactive Learning
Examines differences in learner satisfaction and learning outcomes based on learner characteristics and study habits in an online course.

An Examination of Online Instructor Presence via Threaded Discussion Participation
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Examines faculty perceptions of the extent to which instructor interactivity, operationalized as participation in online threaded discussions, should be evaluated to establish clear expectations for instructor presence in the online classroom.

Learners' Perspectives on What is Missing from Online Learning: Interpretations through the Community of Inquiry Framework
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
Discusses insights obtained from interviews with ten learners about what it is they miss about face-to-face contact when learning online.

How Blended Learning Can Support a Faculty Development Community of Inquiry
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
This study focuses on understanding the social and teaching presence required to create a blended faculty development community of inquiry.

Why Collaborative Storyboard Technology Is Mission Critical
Learning Circuits
Describes how collaborative storyboarding can be used to design e-learning more efficiently, including specifying the content and learning outcomes.

E-Conferencing for Instruction: What Works?
Educause Quarterly
A study of e-conferencing tools found relationships between specific tools and certain pedagogical principles.

Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion Tools in Online Educational Contexts
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Research provides insights into the academic value of blogging tools for discourse and the opportunities the tools offer beyond current learning management systems and threaded discussions.

Formative Evaluation: A Practical Guide
eLearn Magazine
Describes how the four stages of a formative evaluation process can be used to increase the effectiveness of an online course.

Moderation, Response Rate, and Message Interactivity: Features of Online Communities and Their Effects on Intent to Participate
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Two experiments indicate that both structural features of interfaces and content features of interactions affect people's intent to participate in online communities.

A Systemic Plan of Technology Integration
Educational Technology & Society
Proposes a plan for educational researchers, practitioners, and policymakers involved in the change process to implement successful technology integration in the context of teacher education.

Can Factors Related to Self-Regulated Learning Predict Learning Achievement in Undergraduate Asynchronous Web-based Courses?
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
This study determined a significant correlation among three predictors of success in online learning, including individual self-efficacy in having a “can do” attitude and expectancy of positive outcomes.

An Aptitude-Treatment-Interaction-Approach on Motivation and Student's Self-Regulated Multimedia-Based Learning
Interactive Educational Multimedia
Using Keller's ARCS model, this study tested the effects of instructional design strategies on individual differences in multimedia learning and motivation.

Electronic Student Assessment - The Power of the Portfolio
Campus Technology Magazine
Describes examples of how e-portfolios are used to evaluate student progress and to change the learning process, and provides 20 "smart tips and practices".

Multimedia Presentation Software Solutions for Internet-Based Courses
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Discusses multimedia presentation software (MPS) and suggests criteria for selecting, implementing, and administering MPS solutions to maximize accessibility and student learning while minimizing expense. Also see in this issue Podcasting: Co-opting MP3 Players for Education and Training Purposes.

Faculty Development as Community Building
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
Describes a community of practice approach to faculty development that aims to create a culture of teaching and a sense of connectedness; provides suggestions for applying the approach in open and distance education contexts.

Online Course Design from a Communities-of-Practice Perspective
eLearn Magazine
Explores a design for learning that connects people across time and distance so they develop practices for sharing and creating information and knowledge rather than just acquiring it. The design uses the dynamics and tensions of one media cycle to stimulate learning in the next.

Podcasting Lectures
Educause Quarterly
Describes a pilot project to evaluate the choice of media to use, including podcasting, to provide access to recorded lectures.

Be Constructive: Blogs, Podcasts, and Wikis as Constructivist Learning Tools
Learning Solutions eMagazine
Reviews types of applications and design considerations in using these new technologies for learning.

Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty, Students, and Administrators Want
Educause Review
Discusses the pros and cons of learning/course management systems and asks, what do faculty, students, and administrators want from the next-generation e-learning environment?

Do Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles Also Apply to Online MBAs?
Journal of Educators Online
Using a sample of 24 online MBA courses, this study tests whether or not principles of effective classroom teaching may be used as starting points for developing and teaching web-based courses.

Increasing Access in Online Higher Education
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
This special issue investigates, from multiple prospectives, how access to higher education can be increased through further integration of online education.

Balancing Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Peer-to-Peer Approaches to Sustaining Distance Training
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Explores the balance between various approaches to sustaining distance training, and the implications for creating a learning culture in the organization.

Best Practices for Online Business Education
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
This integrative review of literature on online best practices is intended as a quick reference for those designing online business courses, but it is useful for other fields as well.

Student Success in Face-To-Face and Distance Teleclass Environments: A matter of contact?
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
This research study indicates three predictors of student success in distance learning: reading comprehension, confidence in abilities needed to succeed in the class, and willingness to contact the instructor and ask for help when needed.

Implementing Learning-How-to-Learn Strategies
Chief Learning Officer
Reviews the fundamentals of knowing how to learn, particularly metacognitive abilities, as being critical to organizational success and lifelong learning.

Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University
Educause Review
Argues that open-access projects are stimulating a broader open-content movement, which in turn is leading to the emergence of a meta-university—an accessible, dynamic, and communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced.

Special Issue on Institutional Transformation
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
This issue contains several articles on institutional commitment and cost effectiveness, surveying the ways online education is changing higher education in the United States, providing institutional case studies, and analyzing business models.

The Role of Emotion in Creating Instructor and Learner Presence in the Distance Education Experience
Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning,
Reviews the literature on the role of emotion in creating presence, and builds on models to create a framework for practice and discuss implications for future research.

Pedagogy Considerations for E-learning
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Examines changes in pedagogy to increase effectiveness of e-learning by incorporating instructional strategies that take into account personalized learning and content-to-learner adaptability.

Reusing Learning Objects in Three Settings: Implications for Online Instruction
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Discusses the use of sharable content objects in three types of online courses (blended, collaborative, and self-paced) to evaluate reusability, design considerations, and learning effectiveness.

Strategies to Build a Cross-National Virtual World
AACE Journal
Describes how an online virtual world, called Euroland, supported knowledge building and collaborative learning among seven primary and secondary classrooms in two countries.

Identifying and measuring individual engagement in critical thinking in online discussions: An exploratory case study
Educational Technology & Society
Reports on the development of a model for identifying and measuring individual engagement in critical thinking in an online discussion.

Evaluation of an Online Student Induction and Support Package for Online Learners
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning (EURDL)
Describes the evaluation of an online primer and survival guide to prepare face-to-face and fully online students for learning online.

Learning Hands-on Skills in an Online Environment: The Effectiveness of Streaming Demonstration Animation
Journal of Interactive Online Learning
This study uses action research techniques and describes the application of onscreen-action-capture software to the design of hands-on demonstrations that help students to learn multimedia skills.

Encouraging Student Participation in an Online Course Using ‘Pull’ Initiatives
Electronic Journal of E-Learning (EJEL)
Reports on a study involving the use of quizzes and games to increase participation and engagement in online discussions.

Building an Evaluation Plan for Fully Online Degree Programs
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Describes the research undertaken to develop an evaluation plan for an online graduate degree program, with the aims of assessing goal attainment, determining a roadmap for program improvement, and providing a framework for future decision-making.

Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
Educause Review
Discusses openness, microcontent, and social software (blogs, wikis, trackback, podcasting, videoblogs, and other networking tools) as being the emergent concepts defining the new Web 2.0 movement.

Special Issue on Online Collaboration
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Seven papers address the challenge: What are the best ways to do collaboration, especially collaboration for teaching and learning?

Time Management Strategies for Online Teaching
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Reviews the literature and analyzes examples of class records to formulate six strategies to make online teaching more efficient and effective

An Introduction to Current Trends and Benefits of Mobile Wireless Technology Use in Higher Education
AACE Journal
Examines current information on mobile wireless technologies and answers three questions about types of applications, benefits, and access.

Teaching Facts with Fun, Online Games
Learning Circuits
Describes simple online games to encourage the Gamer Generation to stay engaged with e-learning.

Creating Concept Maps: Integrating Constructivism Principles into Online Classes
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Illustrates how students can construct concept maps to facilitate research, interpretation, product development, collaboration, and assessment of conceptual materials.

Designing Metacognitive Maps for Web-Based Learning
Journal of Educational Technology & Society
Describes how metacognitive supports can be embedded as visual on-screen maps and planning spaces to help learners build skills in planning, monitoring, evaluating, and revising.

E-Learning—A Financial and Strategic Perspective
Educause Quarterly
Compares several e-learning programs as examples of different strategies for achieving acceptable financial returns from e-learning.

No Teacher Left Behind: How to Teach with Technology
Educause Quarterly
Describes a three-phase program to teach veteran and novice instructors how to effectively integrate technology into lesson plans.

Special Issue: The Intersections of Online Writing Spaces, Rhetorical Theory, and the Composition Classroom
Kairos
Includes articles on teaching digital writing, authoring with templates, using wikis as collaborative writing tools, and blogging.

Critical Design and Administrative Issues in Online Education
Online Journal of Distance Education Administration
Discusses ten critical design and management issues that administrators at Indiana University found most challenging in implementing an online MBA program. Also see in this issue An Organizational Diffusion Study on Distance Education

Universities and the Corporate E-Learning Market
LTI Newsline
Argues that universities must change their traditional course development practices if they are to meet the new demands of online education.

Be VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors
Journal of Interactive Online Learning
Describes the key characteristics that a master instructor needs to be effective in an online environment (VOCAL is an acronym for Visible, Organized, Compassionate, Analytical and Leader-by-example).

Problem-based Learning in an Online Course: A case study
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
This study on problem-based learning in an online biotechnology course concludes that "PBL is a valid and valuable means of increasing student learning in any online class where higher-order learning is desirable".

Special issue on Crafting Learning in Context
Educational Technology & Society
Special issue featuring the best papers presented at the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2004) focusing on the ways technology can enable authentic contexts for the learning and doing to take place.

Evaluating Learning Objects for Schools
e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST)
Describes developments in the K-12 sector to analyze and profile learning objects in relation to accessibility, the student interface, and pedagogical issues.

Curriculum Adaptations within the Online Environment
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
This study comparing learning and performance suggests that online students outperform their onsite counterparts in terms of engagement, work habits, preferences, and interactions. Also in this issue, see Impact of Online Education on Traditional Campus-Based Education.

Are Online Courses Cannibalizing Students From Existing Courses?
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
An analysis of students enrolled in six online courses at two campuses of a Midwestern university, while exploratory, indicates that students taking online courses differ in many significant ways from the average student.

Brain-Based Learning: Possible Implications for Online Instruction
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Defines brain-based learning and offers suggestions on how the theory may be implemented in the delivery of information and facilitation of online classes in higher education.

A Faculty Evaluation Model for Online Instructors: Mentoring and Evaluation in the Online Classroom
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Describes the Online Instructor Evaluation System that uses formative reviews and summative evaluation to serve the dual purpose of mentoring and assessing online teaching performance.

Preparing Learners for Online Success
Learning Circuits
Examines the kinds of study skills and technology skills needed by online learners, and presents six tips that instructors can apply to assist e-learners in being successful.

Faculty Use of Technologies in Online Courses
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Study reporting on how instructors use technologies in online courses based on their perceived importance and skill in application, including asynchronous discussion, audio/video, and real time chat.

Frameworks for Sharing Teaching Practices
Educational Technology & Society
Discusses four rubrics, along with tools and techniques, for knowledge management that supports opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing among teachers.

Distance Education and the Academic Department: The Change Process
Educause Quarterly
Describes how developing online courses in a traditional academic department requires sensitive management of the change process.

Special theme issue: Online Communities
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Contains 10 articles on the design, theory, and practice of online communities. Also contains another 8 articles on the theme of computer-mediated collaborative practices.

Increasing Access to Higher Education: A study of the diffusion of online teaching among 913 college faculty
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
Reports study results indicating that interaction, technical support, opportunities for learning, and discipline-specific factors are significantly linked with faculty satisfaction in online teaching; makes recommendations for institutional policy and faculty development. In this issue also see Navigating Distance and Traditional Higher Education: Online Faculty Experiences

Fifty-One Competencies for Online Instruction
The Journal of Educators Online
Identifies 51 competencies needed by online instructors and outlines an instructor training program that satisfies 3 of the 24 benchmarks for excellence recommended by the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

Using Discussion Webs to Develop an Academic Community of Learners
Journal of Educational Technology & Society
Reports study results on the effectiveness of online discussion activities in promoting learning, problem-solving, and community.

Software Agents to Assist in Distance Learning Environments
Educause Quarterly
Describes the piloting of a software agent that functions as a teaching assistant to take care of routine tasks that help to support learners, such as sending reminder e-mails.

20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have
THE Journal
Lists basic technology skills needed by today's educator, along with links to skill-building tutorials and resources.

Critical Thinking in Asynchronous Discussions
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Examines strategies and challenges to encourage learners to think critically in asynchronous discussions, including ways to promote higher- order interactions.

Marketing Distance Learning Programs and Courses: A Relationship Marketing Strategy
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Describes the change from mass marketing strategies to relationship marketing strategies that promote student retention, encourage recruitment of new students, and build long-term student relationships.

A System-Level Comparison of Cost-Efficiency and Return on Investment Related to Online Course Delivery
E-Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (e-JIST)
This study compares costs and revenues for online delivery systems in order to address the question, "To what extent are online courses delivered at community colleges in Illinois cost efficient?"

Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Reviews the literature on “quality control or assurance” in online education, and provides practical strategies for instructors to design and deliver effective online courses. Also see in this issue Literature Review – Faculty Participation in Online Distance Education: Barriers and Motivators.

Kirkpatrick’s Level 3: Improving the Evaluation of E-Learning
Learning Circuits
Provides an overview of the requirements to implement a Kirkpatrick Level 3 evaluation for online learning to measure if there is a transfer of learning to an on-the-job work setting.

Enabling Mobile Learning
Educause Review
Argues whether we like it or not, whether we are ready for it or not, mobile learning represents the next step in a long tradition of technology-mediated learning as cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, portable game devices, handhelds, tablets, and laptops proliferate.

Shaping E-Learning Policy
TechLearning
Reviews a number of policy issues that school districts must address before selecting a provider or creating their own online learning ventures.

Highschool.com
EduTopia
All over the country, secondary school students are going online for classes. Will the virtual classroom redefine what it means to be a student--or a teacher? Also see the multimedia presentation on Online Learning

Trend: Mobile Reality (A Tale of Two Experts)
Learning Circuits
An interview with two of the field’s experts tries to sort reality from hype in asking, What’s currently working in m-learning, and why? What’s been stopping its widespread adoption? And what’s necessary to make it more pervasive?

Exemplary Online Educators: Creating a Community of Inquiry
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Outlines the initial findings of a qualitative study that asked students who study online their perspectives on why they recall certain online educators as outstanding.

Intercultural Competence for Future Leaders of Educational Technology and its Evaluation
Interactive Educational Multimedia
A transatlantic project across six universities gathered evidence showing that students gained intercultural competence that included acceptance, adaptability, and multiple perspectives in using technology to bridge cultures.

Electronic Portfolios and Dimensions of Learning
THE Journal
Describes how e-portfolios can incorporate video clips, audio, and animation as text enhancements that challenge students to think more creatively and critically.

Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, and Benchmarking: Comparing Two Frameworks for Managing Quality Processes in Open and Distance Learning
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)
Compares the frameworks in terms of their scope, institutional application, structures, and method of application, and then considers the implications for their use.

Learning with Invisible Others: Perceptions of Online Presence and their Relationship to Cognitive and Affective Learning
Journal of Educational Technology & Society
A study highlighting the significance of online interaction with students as being correlated with positive attitudes and satisfaction with learning.

Can Interest in Distance Training be Sustained in Corporate Organizations?
International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning
Analyze obstacles to sustaining distance training in corporate organizations and suggests some possible solutions when budgets are tight.

Online Student Evaluation of Teaching for Distance Education: A Perfect Match?
Journal of Educators Online
Describes a pilot project to develop an appropriate means for online student evaluation of teaching in distance education courses that is beneficial for all stakeholders — student, faculty, and administration.

Faculty and Administrators Collaborating for E-Learning Courseware
Educause Quarterly
Discusses how faculty incentives, course ownership policies, and adequate funding will encourage faculty to explore technology for teaching.

A Learning Object Approach to Personalized Web-based Instruction
European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL)
Reports on a method to adapt instruction to individual differences in learning by using an algorithm to select apppropriate learning objects from a repository.

A Content Analytic Comparison of Learning Processes in Online and Face-to-Face Case Study Discussions
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
A content analysis of transcripts from face-to-face (FTF) and asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) provides evidence that ALNs generate high levels of cognitive activity, at least equal to, and in some cases superior to, the cognitive processes in the FTF classroom.

Translating Constructivism into Instructional Design: Potential and Limitations
Journal of Educational Technology & Society
Discusses the basic principles underlying constructivism, particularly active, collaborative and authentic learning, and describes the implications and challenges for instructional design.

The Adoption of Open Sources within Higher Education In Europe and A Dissemination Case Study
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
Outlines the development of open-source software for teaching and learning and discusses the reasons for its spread in higher education across Europe and Central Asia.