For instance: my first full read was an article entitled "Let's talk about digital learners in the digital era", an article reviewing all reference literature to 'digital natives' and concluding (not surprisingly, yet proving with fact and figures):
The so-called “Digital Native” literature demonstrates that despite students’ high digital confidence and digital skills, their digital competence may be much lower than those of their “digital teachers”.
Another read of this morning was entitled "Exploring intensive longitudinal measures of student engagement in blended learning" , where the following sentence from the abstract drew me into the full article: "We found that clarity of instruction and relevance of activities influenced student satisfaction more than the medium of instruction. Student engagement patterns observed in the log data revealed that exploring learning tools and previewing upcoming assignments and learning activities can be useful indicators of a successful learning experience."
And I have another couple of articles ready for reading... joy!
Here is the full list of articles of the new issue, all articles freely available and in HTML PDF MP3 EPUB formats... wonderful:
Editorial
Editorial: Volume 16, Number 3
Rory McGreal
Research Articles
Who studies MOOCs? Interdisciplinarity in MOOC research and its changes over time
George Veletsianos, Peter Shepherdson
Are the most highly cited articles the ones that are the most downloaded? A bibliometric study of IRRODL
Raidell Avello Martínez, Terry Anderson
Developing, using, and interacting in the flipped learning movement: Gaps among subject areas
Hsin-liang Chen, Kevin L. Summers
Exploring students’ intention to use LINE for academic purposes based on technology acceptance model
Willard Van De Bogart, Saovapa Wichadee
Learners’ goal profiles and their learning patterns over an academic year
Clarence Ng
The use of a mobile learning management system at an online university and its effect on learning satisfaction and achievement
Won Sug Shin, Minseok Kang
Exploring intensive longitudinal measures of student engagement in blended learning
Curtis R Henrie, Robert Bodily, Kristine C Manwaring, Charles R Graham
Let’s talk about digital learners in the digital era
Eliana Esther Gallardo-Echenique, Luis Marqués-Molías, Mark Bullen, Jan-Willem Strijbos
Roles of course facilitators, learners, and technology in the flow of information of a cMOOC
Oleksandra Skrypnyk, Srećko Joksimović, Vitomir Kovanović, Dragan Gašević, Shane Dawson
A paradigm shift: Adoption of disruptive learning innovations in an ODL environment: The case of the University of South Africa
Blessing Mbatha
University of Toronto instructors’ experiences with developing MOOCs
Hedieh Najafi, Carol Rolheiser, Laurie Harrison, Stian Håklev
Conceptualizing and investigating instructor presence in online learning environments
Jennifer C Richardson, Adrie A. Koehler, Erin D. Besser, Secil Caskurlu, JiEun Lim, Chad M. Mueller
Exploring the interaction equivalency theorem
Brenda Cecilia Padilla Rodriguez, Alejandro Armellini
In abundance: Networked participatory practices as scholarship
Bonnie E Stewart
Research Notes
Massive open online course completion rates revisited: Assessment, length and attrition
Katy Jordan
