Online Journals in Educational technology: state and directions

Artículo escrito por Michael Molenda y Sung Pil Kang en 2004
APCJ. Asia-Pacific Cybereducaction Jouurnal. Vol 1 No. 1
Artículo en Inglés

Resumen

In anticipation of starting a new online journal in the field of educational technology, we conducted a review of existing journals, dividing them into two categories—online-only and online + print. The 30 journals in the review were analyzed with respect to: frequency of publication; their content emphases, goals, and audiences; policies on subscription and copyright; and technical functions, such as search and discussion. We were looking for the features that made the online journals distinctive from the others, which were based in the print paradigm. The aspects that yielded significant differences were subscription policy, redistribution policy, and search function. The online-only journals were more liberal in their subscription and redistribution policies, but the online + print journals had more extensive search capabilities. In addition, we identified gaps in the topical coverage of the existing journals, in the areas of educational technology management, educational systems design/reform, policy issues, and cultural issues.