IRRODL journal is out with rich online, #mobile and #eLearning articles

The latest version of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning has just been published and as always it is packed with online, mobile and eLearning wisdom.

There are a couple of OER related articles in this publication. One article that immediately got my attention was the OERscout technology framework by Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena, Chee Seng Chan, Choy Yoong Tham. They dare to tackle the relevant OER searching and finding challenge: as a major step towards solving this issue, this paper proposes OERScout, a technology framework based on text mining solutions. Just imagine finding the top-notch OER in a matter of minutes, what a wonderful world this would be. 

Table of Contents

Editorial

	Editorial: Volume 14, Number 4	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Dianne Conrad

Research Articles

	Distance and e-learning, social justice, and development: The relevance of capability approaches to the mission of open universities	HTMLPDF MP3EPUB
	Alan William Tait

	The extent of and reasons for non re-enrolment: A case of Korea National Open University	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Hyoseon Choi, Yekyung Lee, Insung Jung, Colin Latchem

	The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	John Levi Hilton III, Donna Gaudet, Phil Clark, Jared Robinson, David Wiley

	Making distance visible: Assembling nearness in an online distance learning programme	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Jen Ross, Michael Sean Gallagher, Hamish Macleod

	Evaluation of the Vocational Education Orientation Programme (VEOP) at a university in South Africa	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Lynette Jacobs, Corene De Wet

	Measuring use and creation of open educational resources in higher education	HTML PDF MP3EPUB
	Ross Charles McKerlich, Cindy Ives, Rory McGreal

	Comparison of course completion and student performance through online and traditional courses	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Thomas Wayne Atchley, Gary Wingenbach, Cynthia Akers

	Mobile app design for teaching and learning: Educators’ experiences in an online graduate course	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Yu-Chang Hsu, Yu-Hui Ching

	Learning in a small, task–oriented, connectivist MOOC: Pedagogical issues and implications for higher education	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Jenny Mackness, Marion Waite, George Roberts, Elizabeth Lovegrove

	Virtual worlds: Relationship between real life and experience in Second Life	HTML PDF MP3EPUB
	Scott P. Anstadt, Shannon Bradley, Ashley Burnette

	The influence of e-learning on individual and collective empowerment in the public sector: An empirical study of Korean government employees	HTMLPDF MP3EPUB
	Mann Hyung Hur, Yeonwook Im

	OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena, Chee Seng Chan, Choy Yoong Tham

	Power distance in online learning: Experience of Chinese learners in U.S. higher education	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Yi (Leaf) Zhang

	Assessment of the effectiveness of internet-based distance learning through the VClass e-Education platform	HTML PDFMP3 EPUB
	Chadchadaporn Pukkaew

Leadership in Open and Distance Learning Notes

	Editorial: Leadership in Open and Distance Learning Notes	HTML PDF MP3EPUB
	Marti Cleveland-Innes

	Leader-member exchange theory in higher and distance education	HTML PDF MP3EPUB
	Robert Leo Power

New issue of the free #eLearning journal #IRRODL is out - a great read

Below you will find the contents of the new issue of IRRODL, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. The issue contains 12 research articles and one field note, research note, and article reaction note.

The winners of last years Best Articles of the year in IRRODL for 2011, have also been selected by the Editorial Board. This is a new reward the IRRODL people launched and it comes with it the opportunity to have the work translated and published in a number of our partner educational journals that publish in languages other than English (great initiative!).

The winning articles and authors of 2011 are:

Vol 12, No 6 (2011)	Examining motivation in online distance learning environments: Complex, multifaceted and situation-dependent	ABSTRACT HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
by Maggie Hartnett, Alison St. George, Jon Dron

Vol 12, No 2 (2011)	A pedagogical framework for mobile learning: Categorizing educational applications of mobile technologies into four types	ABSTRACT HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
by Yeonjeong Park

And these are the articles of the new IRRODL issue:

Vol 13, No 1 (2012)

Table of Contents

Editorial

	Editorial Volume 13, Number 1	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Terry Anderson	i-v

Research Articles

	An open education resource supports a diversity of inquiry-based learning	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Catherine Anne Schmidt-Jones	1-16

	Toward a CoI population parameter: The impact of unit (sentence vs. message) on the results of quantitative content analysis	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Paul Gorsky, Avner Caspi, Ina Blau, Yodfat Vine, Amit Billet	17-37

	Pretesting mathematical concepts with the mobile phone: Implications for curriculum design	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Rita Ndagire Kizito	38-55

	Heutagogy and lifelong learning: A review of heutagogical practice and self-determined learning	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Lisa Marie Blaschke	56-71

	Science teacher training programme in rural schools: An ODL lesson from Zimbabwe	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Misheck Mhishi, Crispen Erinos Bhukuvhani, Abel Farikai Sana	72-86

	Investigating instructional strategies for using social media in formal and informal learning	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Baiyun Chen, Thomas Bryer	87-104

	An investigation of communication in virtual high schools	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Marley Belair	105-123

	Connectivism and dimensions of individual experience	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Carmen Tschofen, Jenny Mackness	124-143

	Online social networks as formal learning environments: Learner experiences and activities	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	George Veletsianos, Cesar Navarrete	144-166

	Rapport in distance education	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Elizabeth Murphy, María A. Rodríguez-Manzanares	167-190

	The implications of the local context in global virtual education	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Ståle Angen Rye, Anne Marie Støkken	191-206

	Challenges of virtual and open distance science teacher education in Zimbabwe	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Vongai Mpofu, Tendai Samukange, Lovemore M Kusure, Tinoidzwa M Zinyandu, Clever Denhere, Shakespear Ndlovu, Renias Chiveya, Monica Matavire, Leckson Mukavhi, Isaac Gwizangwe, Elliot Magombe, Nyakotyo Huggins, Munyaradzi Magomelo, Fungai Sithole, Chingombe Wiseman	207-219

Field Notes

	Learning management system migration: An analysis of stakeholder perspectives	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Thomas G Ryan, Mary Toye, Kyle Charron, Gavin Park	220-237

Research Notes

	Motivating factors that affect enrolment and student performance in an ODL engineering programme	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	Pushpa Ranjani Dadigamuwa, Nihal Saman Senanayake	238-249

Article Notes

	Article review - Social presence within the community of inquiry framework	HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
	D.R. Garrison