Journals and Online Resources
This page is part of a bibliography/appendix for ‘The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age’ project. It is a work in progress. It is not meant to be an exhaustive or all-inclusive list but is instead a resource for educators and learners striving to make a difference in a digital age. It is also a collaborative effort and will constantly evolve to take into consideration suggestions and feedback. Please let us know what you think by using the comment tool located at the bottom of the page. For more information about this document please see the introductory page.
JOURNALS AND ONLINE RESOURCES
Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J) – http://www.alt.ac.uk/alt_j.html
• This is an international, tri-annual, peer-reviewed journal produced by the Association for Learning Technology. It is devoted to researching and exploring practical applications of learning technologies in higher education. The ultimate goal of this research is to facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers and policy makers in education. ALT-J was originally published by The University of Wales Press and is now published by the Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
The American Journal of Distance Education – http://www.ajde.com/index.htm
• AJDE is an internally distributed and peer-reviewed journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education. Articles address digital teaching techniques such as audio and video broadcasts, teleconferences and recordings, and multimedia systems. The principal focus of current research is the World Wide Web, and its related fields of on-line learning, e-learning, distributed learning, asynchronous learning and blended learning. AJDE aims to provide a solid foundation of valuable research-based knowledge about all aspects of pedagogy and resources in distance education.
First Monday – http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/
• First Monday (which is issued on the first Monday of every month) is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the internet. It was founded in May 1996 as a forum for discussion on the emerging technologies associated with the world wide web. The journal published on a range of topics, stipulating only that they be original research papers addressing the internet and related technologies.
Game Studies – http://www.gamestudies.org/
• Game Studies is a peer-reviewed journal whose primary focus is on the aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games. They publish articles on topics ranging from the nature of narrative in games to virtual economies and forms of interaction and communication in multiplayer games. It is a cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to exploring the cultural implications of gaming and to providing an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming.
innovate: journal of online education – http://www.innovateonline.info
• innovate is an open access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of digital technology to enhance learning processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. Their goal is to foster communication about innovative uses of technology across sectors and to encourage the sharing of ideas and resources.
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL) – http://ijcscl.org/
• ijCSCL is a new journal founded by the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). It is a peer-reviewed academic journal whose primary aim is to promote a deeper understanding of the nature, theory and practice of the uses of computer-supported collaborative learning. The goal of the journal is to facilitate an understanding of how people learn in the context of collaborative activity and how to design the technological settings for collaboration.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) – http://www.online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet
• The iJET publication is an international journal published out of Germany that promotes the exchange of trends and research in technology enhanced learning. It aims to bridge the gap between pure academic research journals and more practical publications meant for a general public. Thus it publishes interdisciplinary articles not only on research but also application development, experience reports and product descriptions.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) - http://jcmc.indiana.edu/index.html
• JCMC is one of the oldest web-based internet studies journals and has been published continuously (with one issue appearing every three months) since June of 1995. It is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on social science research on computer-mediated communication via the internet and wireless technologies. The journal was founded as an interdisciplinary platform for discussions on these subject and publishes work by scholars in communication, business, education, political science, sociology, media studies, information science, and other disciplines. In 2004, JCMC became an official journal of the International Communication Association.
The Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment (JTLA) – http://escholarship.bc.edu/jtla/
• JTLA is a peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal housed jointly in the Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative (inTASC) and the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy (CSTEEP) at Boston College. The journal’s goal is to address the intersection of computer-based technology, learning, and assessment. They publish articles that examine how teaching and learning are altered by new technologies and seek to measure the impact that this has through non-traditional assessment methods. The journal is currently supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Language Learning and Technology – http://llt.msu.edu/
• Language Learning and Technology is a refereed journal that was founded in July 1997 in order to disseminate research and pedagogical information to foreign and second language educators around the world. Articles specifically focus on the intersections between language education and the use of new technology. The focus of the publication is not technology in and of itself, but rather how technology is used to enhance and change language learning and language teaching. Language Learning and Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).
Learning Inquiry – http://www.springerlink.com/content/1558-2973
• Learning Inquiry is a new, refereed scholarly journal devoted to the exploration of ‘learning’ as a focus for interdisciplinary study. The journal’s goal is to be a forum for a dialogue on all types and manifestations of learning, including informal as well as formal environments. Contributors will come from business professionals, government organizations, institutions of education at any level, and life-long informal learners. The journal is intended to be of interest to the general public, or more specifically to anyone invested in learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future. Learning Inquiry strives to strike a balance between presenting innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster scholarly and informal dialogue on learning independent of domain and methodological restrictions.
Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular – http://www.vectorsjournal.org/
• Vectors is a peer-reviewed online multimedia journal that highlights the social, political and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence. The journal focuses on the way in which technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and /or impedes our social relations, both in the past and in the present. As such, the journal is inherently cross-disciplinary and accepts submissions from scholars and experts in any field. Vectors is also unique in that it is published as a multimedia production: its ‘articles’ are made up of moving and still images, sound, computational structures, software, and of course, text. The goal of the journal is to fuse the old and new in terms of media, subject matter and style.
