[Air-l] FW: CALL FOR PAPERS: Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education

[Katy E. Pearce]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education (TOJDE)

(ISSN: 1302-6488; Vol. 8, No. 3)

"Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education"

 

Guest Editors:

Mark J. W. LEE, Charles Sturt University, AUSTRALIA

Hakan G. SENEL, Anadolu University, TURKEY

 

'Web 2.0' (O'Reilly, 2005
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.
html> ), epitomised by such nascent technologies as blogs, wikis, RSS,
podcasting, as well as tag-based folksonomies, social networking,
collaborative editing and peer-to-peer (P2P) media sharing applications, is
purported to be redefining the way we conceive and make use of the Internet,
and is enjoying considerable attention and popularity in both mainstream
society and in education spheres. Its advent and continued growth may have
specific implications for the field of online and web-based distance
education. Submissions are invited for an internationally peer-reviewed
Special Issue of the Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education (TOJDE) on
the use of Web 2.0 and social software in distance education. 

Questions/themes that are of interest in this Special Issue include but are
not limited to the following:

*	Does Web 2.0 represent a major conceptual or paradigm shift in how
we conceive and make use of the Internet as a means of delivering teaching,
learning and assessment? Are they the just the same old technologies in
shiny new wrapping, or do they actually have anything new to offer us in the
way of improving and/or enhancing the way we teach, learn and assess at a
distance? How to avoid coasting on fashion and falling prey to a
'technology-driven pedagogy' (Salaberry, 2001)? 
*	Is the emergence of Web 2.0 changing the culture of, and/or
redefining the competencies that are needed by, distance education teachers
and learners? 
*	Does Web 2.0 have the potential - more so than its predecessors - to
address the traditional issues/challenges faced by the field of distance
education, and if so, how can this potential be best harnessed? How can the
technology be used to capitalise on the unique strengths and opportunities
of distance education? 
*	What are existing examples of 'best practice' and 'good principles'
in this area, if any, and how can we learn from them? 
*	What are the major issues facing institutions in terms of strategy,
policy and infrastructure for Web 2.0-enhanced distance education? What are
the implications for teachers and learners? 

Scholarly articles in the form of reports of empirical/evidence-based
research are sought for publication in this Special Issue pending favourable
review. Meta-analyses, as well as case studies or reports of
works-in-progress supported by a sound theoretical foundation and
incorporating an extensive literature review, will also be considered. 

All articles will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity and
soundness. Successful contributions will not focus merely on the technology
or the technical aspects of Web 2.0-based distance education applications,
but rather will engage deeply with pertinent questions and issues from a
pedagogical, social, cultural, philosophical and/or moral/ethical
perspective. Approximately 7 to 11 articles will be selected for this 4th
Special Issue of TOJDE.

Paper Specifications and Submission Guidelines

For details, consult the TOJDE guidelines:
http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/callfp.html. 

Please note that since TOJDE is an online publication, there is no specified
word limit for submissions; however, authors are reminded that clarity and
succinctness of expression will be highly valued.

Key Dates

Article submission deadline: May 1, 2007

Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2007

Submission of final articles for publication: June 1, 2007

Publication of Special Issue: July 1, 2007

 

Guest Editors

 

Mark J. W. LEE is an Adjunct Lecturer with the School of Education, Charles
Sturt University, and an Honorary Research Fellow with the School of
Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat. He
was previously a Lecturer in Information Technology in the School of
Information Studies, Charles Sturt University. Prior to that he was Head of
the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Martin College, the
vocational education division of Australia's largest private education
provider, and national IT coordinator for the La Trobe University and Oxford
Brookes University programs offered by the Australian Campus Network in
Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Mark's research focuses on educational
technology and e-learning, in particular pedagogical uses of 'Web 2.0', as
well as in mobile learning and digital game-based learning. He formerly
served on the executive of the Open & Distance Learning Association of
Australia.

 

Mark J. W. LEE

Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

Email: malee at csu.edu.au 

Tel: +61 2 6933 2441, Fax: +61 2 6933 2888

 

Hakan Güray ŞENEL was born in Eskisehir, Turkey, in 1968. He received the
B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey, in 1990, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1991 to
1997, he was a Teaching Assistant with Vanderbilt University, studying image
processing. Since August 1997, he has been on the faculty of the Electrical
Engineering Department of Anadolu University, Eskisehir. From 2001 to 2005,
he held a position of assistant manager at the Computer Research and
Development Center (BAUM) of Anadolu University. He was promoted to manager
of BAUM in 2006. His current interests are software engineering, high
performance computing and image processing.

 

Hakan G. SENEL, 

Anadolu University, Eskisehir, TURKEY

Email: hgsenel at anadolu.edu.tr
<http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/hgsenel@anadolu.edu.tr>  

Tel: +90 222 335 0581 ext. 1361





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