Wednesday, November 12, 2008

More Journal Presentations

TechTrends- Carry
  • Lots of short articles
  • Each issue has a theme
  • Gaming-TechTrends Sept./Oct.

New Directions for Evaluation- Bryan
  • Free for AEA members
  • Nonprofits and evaluation
  • Scriven, Patton are frequent contributors
  • Article that refers to research and development of technology; do not combine research of evaluation and technology as entirely different or entirely the same.

Open Learning: The Journal of Open Distance Learning- Aaron
  • Going since 1986
  • 3 issues per year
  • 8 articles per issue
  • about 90 pages per issue
  • initial editor screening
  • $104 for personal use
  • Access, Success, and Retention (June 2006)- dealing with different access to different internet

American Journal of Evaluation- Sarah
  • Reflects diversity of field of evaluation
  • Teaching evaluation to future evaluators
  • Evaluation Practice
  • Evaluation Ethics
  • Book Reviews
  • Issues: Pedagogy of graduate courses in evaluation, program implementation
  • “Using Problem-Based Learning to Train New Evaluators”

Computer Assisted Language Learning- Robert
  • Published in England
  • Very broad scope: Language Courseware Development, Research Methodologies, etc.
  • Corpus linguistics

Educause Review- Daryl
  • Current improvements in technology that help in education
  • More on Daryl’s blog
  • Themes: Web 2.0, virtual worlds, distance learning, e-Books, cyberinfostructure
  • Decameron web project www.handsonuniverse.org , telescope project, Carnegie foundation

No comments: