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Call for Papers: Technology & Society Special Issue
A forthcomoing special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Educational
Technology & Society (ISSN 1436-4522) will focus on the theme:
Curriculum, Instruction, Learning and the Internet. Here
is the call for papers:
While Internet access is growing in schools, universities and the corporate training arena at a geometric rate, a recent article related to Telematics and Internet based course development stated that every hour of web instruction was costing about 100 hours of preparation. There is an apparent need to harness the educational value of the Internet, as it is, without extremely time consuming authorship. Therefore, this special issue will focus on the curricular, instructional, and learning aspects of the Internet for professors, teachers and trainers who do not construct web courses or highly complex web creations.
The first term, curriculum, is basically defined as the subject matter content or body of learning objectives that the Internet has to offer for more or less direct import into the educational setting. The second term, instruction, is construed to be the ways and means that the Internet curriculum is strategically deployed in educational settings to promote learning. The third term, learning, refers to the unique characteristics of learning, in a theoretical and a pragmatic sense, as experienced in relation to the medium of the Internet.
We invite submissions covering these aspects that fall into the following categories:
- Full length articles describing research results, presented through discussion
and comparative analysis methods (about 5000 words);
- Short feature articles presenting case studies and emerging theories (about
2500 words);
- Critiques, reviews, individual experiences (about 1500 words).
** Submission procedure
Initial proposals (about 1000 words) should be concise and contain the main
these of the proposed paper. They should be forwarded to the guest editor by
email.
Please forward the following details with each submission:
-Author(s) full name(s) including title(s)
-job title(s)
-Organization(s)
-full contact details of corresponding author including email address, postal
address, telephone and fax numbers
On the basis of initial proposals, the guest editor will invite the submissions which should be sent to him as attached files (preferably in Word, HTML or ASCII) to mbetz@sosu.edu. Once accepted, the final submissions should follow the author guidelines, available at journal's website.
** Special issue guest editor
Muhammad Betz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Educational Instruction & Leadership
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
P.O. Box 4086, Station A
Durant, OK 74701
USA
Tel: +1 580 745 2262
Fax: +1 580 745 7508
Email: mbetz@sosu.edu
** Important dates
Friday, August 18, 2000 - Deadline for initial proposals
Friday, October 6, 2000 - Reaction/notification on initial proposals
Friday, December 15, 2000 - Deadline for full papers
Friday, January 26, 2001 - Reaction/notification on papers (with possible
rejections)
Friday, March 22, 2001 - Final versions of papers
To get familiarity with the style of the journal, please see a previous issue at: http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/ .
Free Instruction in Online Course Design
The following item comes from THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY GAZETTE, "A Readable Digest of New Programs & Pressing Issues In the Virtual University Movement," edited by Vicky Phillips (vicky@geteducated.com) - Vol. 3, #2, February 2000 (ISSN #1099-4262):
Faculty Members - Learn to Instruct or Design a Course Online
Penn State Offers Free Look at Faculty Development 101
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/facdev101/
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Penn State Universityâs World Campus Online has created an online course that teaches their faculty to instruct in cyberspace and design online courses. The course, Faculty Development 101, is now available free online for public browsers to visit. The course is divided into two modules: one teaches how to author a course; the other teaches how to instruct using the technology presented.
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