Dear colleagues,
(Apologies for cross posting!)
It is with great pleasure that I write to you to announce that the long awaited and much anticipated inaugural issue of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning has now been published at
http://journal.elnet.com.au/impact. A copy of the issue's Table of Contents is included at the end of this message.
The inaugural issue, the theme of which is "Current issues and future directions in workplace e-learning: Mapping the research landscape", is a 'bumper' issue containing no less than 14 refereed articles written by authors from France, the UK, Ireland, the USA and Australia. The full text of all 14 articles is available to all those who register for a free account at
http://journal.elnet.com.au/index.php/impact/user/register.
The publication frequency of Impact will increase to bi-annual in 2010, followed by quarterly in 2011 and subsequent years. Manuscript submissions are now being accepted via the online submission system for the first regular issue of the journal (Vol 2, No 1 - to be published in July 2010) - Please see the "About" section of the journal's Web site for information about the journal's focus and scope as well as detailed guidelines for authors.
The second issue of Impact in 2010 (Vol 2, No 2), which will be published in December, is intended to be a special, themed issue on the topic of e-learning evaluation and transfer. More details, including a formal Call for Papers, will be made available in early 2010. Meanwhile, expressions of interest can be sent to
impactjournal@elnet.com.au.
Best wishes to all for the festive season!
Kind regards,
Mark J.W. Lee
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University
Editor-in-Chief, Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
Email:
impactjournal@elnet.com.au
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Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
Vol 1, No 1 (2009): Inaugural issue "Current issues and future
directions in workplace e-learning: Mapping the research landscape"
Table of Contents
http://journal.elnet.com.au/index.php/impact/issue/view/1
Editorial
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Vol 1, No 1 (inaugural issue) (pp. 1-4)
Mark J.W. Lee
Refereed articles
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Knowledge work in a connected world: is workplace learning the next big
thing? (pp. 5-11)
Richard Straub
Learning and technology - what have we learnt? (pp. 12-26)
Martyn Sloman
Whose context is it anyway? Workplace e-learning as a synthesis of
designer- and learner-generated contexts (pp. 27-42)
Andrew Whitworth
Heutagogy and e-learning in the workplace: some challenges and
opportunities (pp. 43-52)
Stewart Hase
Connectivism: a theory for learning in a world of growing complexity
(pp. 53-67)
Kay Strong, Holly Hutchins
Exploring corporate e-learning research: what are the opportunities?
(pp. 68-79)
Consuelo Waight, Barbara Stewart
Enhancing the experience of e-learning among working students: a systematic
review with thematic analysis (pp. 80-96)
Christopher Carroll, Andrew Booth, Diana Papaioannou, Anthea Sutton, Ruth Wong
The use of e-learning in the workplace: a systematic literature review
(pp. 97-112)
Miguel Nunes, Maggie McPherson, Fenio Annansingh, Irfan Bashir, David Patterson
E-learning maturity in the workplace - the benefits and practices
(pp. 113-136)
Laura Overton, Howard Hills
Optimising work-based e-learning in small and medium-sized enterprises:
contemporary challenges (pp. 137-153)
Ian Roffe
The Learn@Work Socrates-Minerva Research Project 2005-2007: what did it
do and what has happened with it since? (pp. 154-168)
Anne Murphy, Kevin O'Rourke, Pauline Rooney
Workers researching the workplace using a work-based learning framework:
towards an agenda for improving supervisory practice (pp. 169-182)
Jon Talbot
How do executives evaluate e-learning? A grounded theory study (pp. 183-204)
Paul Hardt
Case studies (Refereed)
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The evolution of the business case for e-learning at St George Bank
(pp. 205-219)
Colin Pitt, Andrew Heys
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