Posted in IRRODL, My Work on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
We are pleased to present this very topical issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) on openness. Notions of open scholarship, open access publication, open educational resources, tuition-free institutions, and open source software continue to gain popular, research, and commercial interest. Thus, I was very pleased to receive an [...]
Posted in IRRODL, My Work on Sep 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
I hope that readers will not be overwhelmed with IRRODL postings in this blog, as this is a record year for publication. We will likely have 6 issues, and 10(4) that went “to press” this week is our 4th regional special issue.
This special issue presents 9 peer reviewed research articles- each focusing on distance education [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, My Work on Sep 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
At least in North America, and in education domains, in which I am involved, The American Psychological Association calls the shots in terms of formatting and style for most education publications, student papers and thesis work. In addition it is the normal format required for many (most?) educational Journals including the one I edit IRRODL.
Thus, [...]
Posted in IRRODL, My Work on Jun 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
Thanks to our friends and publisher at Athabasca University Press, we have been experimenting with publishing IRRODL articles in epub format. Epub format is supported by the The International Digital Publishing Forum and was designed for reading books on portable and lother electronic readers. The Web-Books site explains that “the EPUB format can be viewed [...]
Posted in IRRODL, My Work on Jun 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
Issue 10(3) of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) was released a couple of hours ago. I take the liberty of reprinting my editorial here, but see below for hotlinked table of contents.
This issue is notable as it is the largest single issue ever published by IRRODL! The issue contains [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL on Apr 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
I am very pleased to announce the publication of Vol 10 (2) of the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL). This is the Middle East Regional Focus Issue: A Bridge over Troubled Waters.
Full text of all articles in HTML,PDF and MP3 audio is available at www.irrodl.org
The issue was co-edited by two [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, My Work on Mar 3rd, 2009 4 Comments »
We are pleased to release another fine issue of International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL). This issue marks our 10th year of publication and I am confident that IRRODL is now the most widely read and cited distance education journal in the world. We present in this issue 8 peer reviewed [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, PLEs on Jan 15th, 2009 8 Comments »
Defining terms like Open and Distance Education has consumed the interest, and resulted in many publications for vocabulary squabblers and some noted educational academics over the years. The rapid evolution of technologies and their adaptation and adoption within the learning and education communities provides opportunities for yet more of this discourse and this post, will [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2008 No Comments »
I feel less engaged in shameless self-promotion, with this announcement of the 9.3 issue of the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), as Jon Baggaley was the editor in charge of this fine issue.
The issue features a video as well as text editorial by Jon, neither of which should be [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, My Work on Jul 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Volume 9, No. 2 of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (www.irrodl.org) is now online.
I like this issue for a number of reasons:
I managed to twist the arm of a colleague, Jon Baggaley, to guest edit the issue, as I am still officially on sabbatical. Jon, with the usual able assistance [...]
