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Terry Anderson, Editor summarizes, "In this issue we present the first article in a new IRRODL section, Leadership in Open and Distance Learning Notes. There is little doubt about the importance of leadership in all organizations in the complex and ever-changing context of the twenty-first century.
The cult of leadership is especially visible to us now as the Americans, the French, and the Russians crank up their respective presidential leadership campaigns. But closer to home and the workplace, it is easy to think about leadership as being something for which someone else, higher up, is responsible. Surely our problems exist because the president, the provost, my department head, or my colleagues just aren’t being effective leaders."
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| The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning |
With articles from Japan, USA, Nigeria, Switzerland, Spain, Catalonia (Spain), Turkey, Iran, Canada, and Malaysia, this issue continues IRRODL’s proud tradition of being the most international of the peer-reviewed distance education journals. We also hope you appreciate the wide range of topics and the underlying theme that unites them—continuing efforts to improve distance and open education practice. Enjoy!
Just look at this interesting line-up below.
Asian learners’ perception of quality in distance education and gender differences
By Insung Jung
Are online learners frustrated with collaborative learning experiences?
By Neus Capdeferro and Margarida Romero
Examining the reuse of open textbooks
By John Levi Hilton III and Neil Lutz, David Wiley
Conceptual framework for parametrically measuring the desirability of open educational resources using D-index
By Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena, S Raviraja and Choy Yoong Tham
Contradictions in a distance course for a marginalized population at a Middle Eastern university
By Irshat Madyarov and Aida Taef
The relationship between flexible and self-regulated learning in open and distance universities
By Per Bernard Bergamin, Simone Ziska, Egon Werlen and Eva Siegenthaler
“Everybody is their own island”: Teacher disconnection in a virtual school
By Abigail Hawkins, Michael K Barbour and Charles R Graham
Building an inclusive definition of e-learning: An approach to the conceptual framework
By Albert Sangrà, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos and Nati Cabrera
Determining the feasibility of an e-portfolio application in a distance education teaching practice course
By Ilknur Kecik, Belgin Aydin, Nurhan Sakar, Mine Dikdere, Sinan Aydin, Ilknur Yuksel and Mustafa Caner
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Source: The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
