Professional Journal Reports--Part 2

TechTrends:  Linking research and practice to improve learning

• Association of Educational Communication & Technology
• Is designed for practitioners--How to apply instructional technology principles
• Short articles (more like a Trade Magazine than a research journal)

New Directions for Evaluation

• Published by AEA (American Evaluation Association)
• Available in HBLL
• Focuses on Technology rather than Science (Technology is not an applied science--they are two different fields and ask different questions--like Gibbons argument)

Open Learning:  The journal of open and distance learning

• What is the "Open University"?
• Contains both scholarly (research) and practical (case studies, etc.) articles
• "Predicting Success among Distance Learners"

Is this a different group than those that would not be successful in a traditional setting?

American Journal of Evaluation

• Mostly practical articles, often aimed at new evaluators
• Preparing students in graduate programs to make a meaningful contribution to the field

Computer Assisted Language Learning

• Very broad sampling of topics & articles
• Can be hard to navigate because of the wide variety of topics addressed

Educause Review

• Richard Light--Learning happens when the learner participates in the process (group learning)
• Decameron Web Project
• Bug Scope Project (students send bug to U. of Illinois and then can login to a site and view real time miscrope images of the bug they sent in to the lab