Office of Academic Programs
Instructional Technology Journals
Online Journals
JOLT
http://jolt.merlot.org/
"The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education."
Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info/
"Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University . The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. Our basic assumption is that innovative uses of technology in one sector can inform innovative uses of technology in each of the other sectors."
Syllabus Magazine
http://www.syllabus.com/mag.asp
"Syllabus, the only monthly magazine that focuses exclusively on the use of high tech in higher education, provides a platform for advancing new IT solutions at the college level. Read by an audience of 156,000 and influencing decisions made across the higher ed enterprise -- from the classroom to the campus -- Syllabus has been a source of information for educators, administrators and IT professionals since 1988."
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
"The aim of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks is to describe original work in asynchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental results. Our mission is to provide practitioners in online education with knowledge about the very best research in online learning. Papers emphasizing results, backed by data are the norm. Occasionally, papers reviewing broad areas are published, including critical reviews of thematic areas. Entire issues are published from time-to-time around single topic or disciplinary areas. The Journal adheres to traditional standards of review and authors are encouraged to provide quantitative data. The original objective of the Journal was to establish ALN as a field by publishing articles from authoritative and reliable sources. The Journal is now a major resource for knowledge about online learning."
Print Journals
Quarterly Review of Distance Education
http://www.tresystems.com/publications/quarterly.cfm
"The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally based, formal education, where the learning group is separated and where interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group."
American Journal of Distance Education
http://www.ajde.com/
Published by the Pennsylvania State University, "AJDE is the internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education. Distance education describes teaching-learning relationships where the actors are geographically separated and communication between them is through technical media such as audio and video teleconferences, audio and video recordings, personal computer, correspondence texts, and multimedia systems. The principal technology of current research interest is the World Wide Web."
Journal Lists
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Distance Education Clearinghouse
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/journals.cfm
This site contains an alphabetical listing of annotated links about 40 journals and newsletters. It also contains annotated links to 7 collections of distance education articles. Some of these collections contain full text articles; others contain bibliographic citations. Finally, it contains an annotated listing of 7 other sites that contain lists of distance education books and journals.
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UNC-CH CIT Publications on the Web: Journals, Magazines, and Newsletters
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/journals.html
"A list of journals, magazines, and newsletters covering educational technology, multimedia development, computers and computer programming, the Internet, and related topics that can be accessed, in whole or in part, on the World Wide Web. Links are also included to newspapers and other publications that may be of interest to faculty and staff." This is a large, alphabetic, largely unannotated list.
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
http://www.irrodl.org/journalpg.html
An alphabetized, annotated list of journals from Canada's Athabasca University. They have been in the business of distance education for a long time.
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Virtual Teacher's Center (Maggie McVay Lynch) Journal List at Portland State
http://www.vtc.pdx.edu/journals.htm
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