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 [...]

New edition of the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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The TOJDE is always an interesting compilation of papers by researchers mainly from outside the Western Anglo-Saxon culture. Volume: 11 Number: 1 can be visited by clicking http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr

It contains articles from authors from Serbia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, USA, and Ireland.

It includes an excellent review by Desmond [...]

Multi-tasking vs focusing: which is best?

And the answer is: it all depends! As usual with human behaviour, it depends on the context.

Ophir, E., Nass, C., and Wagner, A. (2009) Cognitive control in media multitaskers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 37

I don’t want to oversimplify the results from this careful [...]

The Millennial Muddle

Hoover, E. (2009) The Millennial Muddle Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11

This very LONG article looks ostensibly at the business that discussing millennials has led to for consultants (quoi, moi? Absolutement, non!), although in reality it is a wonderful unconscious description of the culture of the United States and the recent fads in their higher [...]

The learners' experience of e-learning

From ‘Key messages’ in the JISC Responding to Learners Pack

JISC (2009) Responding to Learners Pack Bristol, UK: Joint Information Systems Committee.

From the JISC site:

JISC is an independent advisory body [in the United Kingdom] that works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use ICT to [...]