Via my colleague KC, I learn this website that documents some research about online community of inquiry: Research into Online Communities of Inquiry (associated with University of Calgary).

Central to the research is the model of a community of inquiry that was developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer in 2000. The model has three elements: social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence. These three elements are essential to an educational experience and must be considered when planning and delivering an online learning experience. (more…)

I looked for some refereed academic journals on educational technology. My selection criteria was open-access, peer-reviewed, currently active, and publishing articles in educational technology and related areas. After some work of searching and filtering, here lists what I got.

(1) Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

Brief description: It is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas.

Publisher: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)

Others: Submission Guidelines ::Quick link to a sample paper

(2) Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology

Brief description: It is a peer-reviewed journal that welcomes papers on all aspects of educational technology and learning. Topics may include, but are not limited to: learning theory and technology, cognition and technology, instructional design theory and application, online learning, computer applications in education, simulations and gaming, and other aspects of the use of technology in the learning process.

Publisher: Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada

Others: Information for authors :: Quick link to a sample paper

(3) Educational Technology & Society

Brief description: It is a quarterly journal that seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems. The articles should discuss the perspectives of both communities and their relation to each other.

Publisher: Published By International Forum of Educational Technology & Society; Endorsed By IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (IEEE Computer Society)

Others: Authors Guidelines :: Quick link to a sample paper

(4) Journal of Interactive Media in Education

Brief description: It is an interactive journal for interactive media. One of its aim is to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education.

Publisher: Open University, Knowledge Media Institute, UK.

Others: Submission Guidelilnes :: Quick link to a sample paper

(5) e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology

Brief description: It is an International peer-reviewed electronic journal. The Journal is an multi-faceted publication with content likely to be of interest to policy makers, managers, investors, professional staff, technical staff, and academics within education and training.

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Others: Submission Guidelines ::Quick link to a sample paper

(6) Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Brief description: Articles should address educational technology and may address assessment, attitudes, beliefs, curriculum, equity, research, translating research into practice, learning theory, alternative conceptions, sociocultural issues, special populations, and integration of subjects.

Publisher: Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey

Others: Submission Guidelines :: Quick link to a sample paper

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Do you know some open-access refereed journals on educational technology that I do not list here? I appreciate it if you also let me know.

EduTools: Course Management Systems

Via my colleague Jason, I learnt this website. It provides comprehensive information and reviews on a lot of existing Course Management Systems. It can also let you compare products by product name, by features, and by preselected group.

The most recent product reviews is about Moodle 1.5.2.

In my previous post, I put down a number of my favorite weblogs about learning, technology and education. I continue to add more in the following.

Stephen’s Web by Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes is a leading voice in the areas of learning objects and metadata as well as the emerging fields of weblogs in education and content syndication. He is perhaps best known for his daily research newsletter, OLDaily (short for Online Learning Daily), which reaches thousands of readers across Canada and around the world.

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The following is a list of weblogs about learning, technology and education. They are my favorite weblogs on the topics. I just put the list here for sharing and for recording purpose. I plan to re-organize the outside links in my weblog.

Abject Learning

Reusable media, personal publishing, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
Person: Brian Lamb, Office of Learning Technology, The University of British Columbia, Canada.

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Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input. I found this article useful and will have a detailed read. I am planning to build a blog particularly for the teaching of one of my course.

This article was originally published in Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info/) as: Glogoff, S. 2005. Instructional blogging: Promoting interactivity, student-centered learning, and peer input. Innovate 1 (5).