October 2006 Volume 9 Number 4

Educational Technology & Society
An International Journal
Aims and Scope
Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly journal published in January, April, July and October. Educational Technology &
Society seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such
systems. The articles should discuss the perspectives of both communities and their relation to each other:
• Educators aim to use technology to enhance individual learning as well as to achieve widespread education and expect the technology to
blend with their individual approach to instruction. However, most educators are not fully aware of the benefits that may be obtained by
proactively harnessing the available technologies and how they might be able to influence further developments through systematic
feedback and suggestions.
• Educational system developers and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are sometimes unaware of the needs and requirements of typical
teachers, with a possible exception of those in the computer science domain. In transferring the notion of a 'user' from the humancomputer
interaction studies and assigning it to the 'student', the educator's role as the 'implementer/ manager/ user' of the technology has
been forgotten.
The aim of the journal is to help them better understand each other's role in the overall process of education and how they may support
each other. The articles should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to
Educational Technology & Society and three months thereafter.
The scope of the journal is broad. Following list of topics is considered to be within the scope of the journal:
Architectures for Educational Technology Systems, Computer-Mediated Communication, Cooperative/ Collaborative Learning and
Environments, Cultural Issues in Educational System development, Didactic/ Pedagogical Issues and Teaching/Learning Strategies, Distance
Education/Learning, Distance Learning Systems, Distributed Learning Environments, Educational Multimedia, Evaluation, Human-
Computer Interface (HCI) Issues, Hypermedia Systems/ Applications, Intelligent Learning/ Tutoring Environments, Interactive Learning
Environments, Learning by Doing, Methodologies for Development of Educational Technology Systems, Multimedia Systems/ Applications,
Network-Based Learning Environments, Online Education, Simulations for Learning, Web Based Instruction/ Training
Editors
Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada; Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus & ITI-CERTH, Greece; Ashok Patel, CAL
Research & Software Engineering Centre, UK; Reinhard Oppermann, Fraunhofer Institut Angewandte Informationstechnik, Germany.
Associate editors
Alexandra I. Cristea, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands; John Eklund, Access Australia Co-operative Multimedia
Centre, Australia; Vladimir A Fomichov, K. E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Tech Univ, Russia; Olga S Fomichova, Studio "Culture,
Ecology, and Foreign Languages", Russia; Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands; Chul-Hwan Lee, Inchon National
University of Education, Korea; Brent Muirhead, University of Phoenix Online, USA; Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland;
Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA.
Advisory board
Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Sherman Alpert, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; Alfred Bork,
University of California, Irvine, USA; Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Mark Bullen, University of
British Columbia, Canada; Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan; Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University,
Taiwan; Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA; Brian Garner, Deakin University, Australia; Roger Hartley, Leeds
University, UK; Harald Haugen, Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund, Norway; J R Isaac, National Institute of Information Technology,
India; Paul Kirschner, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands; William Klemm, Texas A&M University, USA; Rob
Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands; Ruddy Lelouche, Universite Laval, Canada; Rory McGreal, Athabasca
University, Canada; David Merrill, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, USA; Marcelo Milrad, Växjö University, Sweden; Riichiro
Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan; Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan; Toshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-
Communications, Japan; Gilly Salmon, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan;
Yoshiaki Shindo, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan; Brian K. Smith, Pennsylvania State University, USA; J. Michael Spector,
Florida State University, USA.
Assistant Editors
Sheng-Wen Hsieh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan; Taiyu Lin, Massey University, New Zealand; Kathleen Luchini,
University of Michigan, USA; Dorota Mularczyk, Independent Researcher & Web Designer; Carmen Padrón Nápoles, Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Ali Fawaz Shareef, Massey University, New Zealand; Jarkko Suhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland.
Executive peer-reviewers
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Institutions: NZ$ 120 (~ US$ 75) per year (four issues) including postage and handling.
Individuals (no school or libraries): NZ$ 100 (~ US$ 50) per year (four issues) including postage and handling.
Single issues (individuals only): NZ$ 35 (~ US$ 18) including postage and handling.
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Fax: +1 780 675 6148. E-mail: kinshuk@ieee.org.
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