Computer-based tutoring research is still alive

The Journal of Educational Technology & Society, Vol. 13, No. 1 has a new edition out on the topic of Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

From the editorial:

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are meant to provide useful tutoring services for assisting the student. These services include coaching, assisting, guiding, helping, and tracking the student during problem-solving situations. [...]

Authors wanted for two IRRODL special issues

Interested, have experience or done research on either:

education in the North/Arctic/Polar regions? or
prior, experiential, and informal learning in open and distance Institutions?

Then IRRODL is  requesting contributions for peer review and possible publication in two upcoming special issues.

The first is in IRRODL’s regional series issue and focuses on the North with a submission deadline of March [...]

Latest issue of IRRODL

Mea culpa, but in the preparations for the holiday season, I let slide by my report on the publication of the latest edition (Vol. 10, No. 6) of the always excellent International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. The December edition includes articles on the following:

Rory McGreal’s evaluation of the Commonwealth of Learning’s [...]

Tunisian e-learning

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For those interested in North African and Arab e-learning, e-Taalim is a useful site (in English)

Journal of Educational Technology and Society: Vol. 12, No.4

The latest issue of “Journal of Educational Technology & Society” is now available on the ETS Journal Web Site.

This issue contains 12 selected papers from the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, in the areas of personalized educational systems, computer supported collaborative and social learning and the new generation of educational technologies. In addition there [...]