Reading Room: Distance Education Journals and Publications
The publications listed here are available online to NDSU faculty and require no additional login or subscription fees in order access full-text articles.
AACE Journal: Current Issue
Formerly the Educational Technology Review. Designed to provide a multidisciplinary forum and focal point for AACE members to exchange information between disciplines, educational levels, and information technologies. Archived issues also available on the site.
http://www.aace.org/pubs/aacej/current.cfm
American Journal of Distance Education
The internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education from Penn State University. It is designed for use by teachers in schools, colleges, and universities; trainers in corporate, military, and professional fields; adult educators; researchers; and other specialists in education, training, and communications.
http://www.ajde.com
Campus Technology (formerly Syllabus)
Formerly titled Syllabus, and read by more than 300,000 educators worldwide, this magazine includes feature articles, case studies, product reviews, and profiles of technology use at the instructor, departmental, and institutional levels. http://campustechnology.com/index.aspx
Chronicle of Higher Education-Distance Education: Information Technology Section
Daily updates and archives of distance education news. Full articles require password for access. http://chronicle.com/infotech/
Journal of Educational Technology and Society
A quarterly journal with 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:
http://www.ifets.info/
Educause Review
Explores the impact of information technologies on higher education.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er
International Journal of Technology and Design Education: Current Issue
Seeks to encourage research and scholarly writing about any aspect of technology and design education. Critical, review, and comparative studies are particularly prominent, as are contributions which draw upon other literatures, such as those derived from historical, philosophical, sociological or psychological studies of technology or design, in order to address issues of concern to technology and design education.
http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/102912/
T.H.E. Journal
For educators involved in integrating technology on their campuses and into their curricula. http://www.thejournal.com/
Journal of Technology Education
Focuses on research, theory, philosophy, and the practice of teaching technology. Full isses of the publication are available in PDF format.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/
KAIROS
An electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/
Learning Technology
The Learning Technology aims to report the activities of the Learning Technology Task Force including various announcements, work in progress, projects, participation opportunities, additions/modifications to the website and so on. In short, it serves as a channel to keep everyone aware of Task Force's activities.
http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues.html
Sloan-C View: Perspectives in Quality Online Education
The intention of the Sloan-C View is to provide useful information about online learning, commentaries about the field and pointers to more details about the work of the Sloan Consortium. The Consortium currently has approximately 1834 active organizational members, including colleges, universities, consortia, and vendors.
http://www.aln.org/publications/view/index.asp
Techknowlogia: International Journal for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning
Publication of this journal is currently suspended, but past issues are available online for free. An international online journal that provides policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at the local, national and global levels with a strategic forum to: explore the vital role of different information technologies (print, audio, visual and digital) in the development of human and knowledge capital; share policies, strategies, experiences and tools in harnessing technologies for knowledge dissemination, effective learning, and efficient education services; review the latest systems and products of technologies of today; and peek into the world of tomorrow.
http://www.techknowlogia.org/
TECHNOS Quarterly
A forum for the discussion of ideas about the use of technology in education with a focus on reform. http://www.technos.net/
Virtual University Gazette
A free monthly newsletter covering the Internet University movement and serving over 30,000 distance learning professionals and students at the adult, post-secondary levels. http://www.geteducated.com/vug/index.asp
