We are extending the deadline for manuscript submission to two Innovate
special issues: ee-Learning and Building an Evidence Base Supporting K-20
Online Learning.
1. ee-Learning
We have become familiar with "e-learning," which uses communication
technologies to connect students and instructors separated by distance
and/or by time, and to provide students with access to learning resources
and interaction. And there is a long history of (e)xperiential education,
where learning takes place in the "real world" of work and service and
governing and the other institutions we create to organize our encounters
and interests.
Historically, electronic and experiential learning have been unique and
separate domains of study and practice. The joining of the two e's in
"ee-learning" provides an opportunity to define and organize an emerging
pedagogy that brings together these two domains.
ee-Learning offers the possibility of ending (or at least dramatically
reducing) the distance between the academic disciplines and the practices
they are designed to inform and illuminate. ee-Learning allows the settings
of the world-businesses, service agencies, government offices, or community
centers-to be the primary scene of instruction, making it possible for
students to learn by applying theory to practice in these settings.
Communication technologies allow students engaged in such settings to act
as a learning community by engaging with each other as well as their
teachers and colleagues, and to reflect on their experiences. Instructors
help students relate their experiences to the bodies of knowledge of the
curriculum, and to extend their learning by use of the rich resources found
on the Internet as well as books and the older media of instruction. The
combination of real-world experience and communication technologies can
provide learning opportunities not available in the traditional classroom
setting.
If you would like to submit a manuscript on this topic, please review our
submission guidelines at
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit and send your
manuscript to me and to the guest editor of this issue, Steve Eskow
(
drseskow@cox.net) no later than June 15, 2007.
2. Building an Evidence Base Supporting K-20 Online Learning
Online learning is a growing phenomenon in education that provides
increased access for educational opportunities for students regardless of
where they live, their background, their family level of income, or how old
they are. While online learning is growing, a number of educational
researchers are examining online learning as a new delivery model that can
stimulate established education models and ensure that data is available to
support innovative and best practices. Exploration and building modern
foundations in online learning are key to growing a body of evidence to
highlight how this modern vehicle is advancing educational practice.
We seek research-based manuscripts that cover the following topics: (1)
innovations in education through online learning, (2) stimulating K-20
learning environments through online learning, and (3) assessments, policy,
funding, and governance models that can advance the ability to innovate
with online learning.
We expect authors to take full advantage of Innovate's multimedia
capacity; supplementary files that illuminate the text are encouraged, and
we are especially interested in the possibility of featuring "Try it!"
sites that would offer readers hands-on experience with particular online
learning features.
If you would like to submit a manuscript on this topic, please review our
submission guidelines at
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit and send your
manuscript to me and to the guest editors of this issue, Cathy Gunn
(
c.gunn@moreheadstate.edu) and Susan Patrick (
spatrick@nacol.org), no later
than June 30, 2007.
Thanks!
Jim
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James L Morrison
Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info
Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership
UNC-Chapel Hill
http://horizon.unc.edu