OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION RESEARCH

ATTENTION- OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION RESEARCHERS

dehub website resources and call for papers

dehub, a research initiative sponsored by ICDE member the University of New England, Australia, works to nurture scholarship in open and distance learning. It provides resources and services to support educators, and following the relaunch of the dehub website, new reports, case studies, conference papers and monographs have been published. A call for papers on OER initiatives in Oceania has also been launched for the RUSC Universities and Knowledge Society Journal in collaboration with ICDE member Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.

Resources

dehub has announced the publication of the following new resources:

• Reports on five large research projects conducted by universities in Australia and New Zealand on
• • Learning interactions;
  • Managing Institutional change through distributive leadership approaches;
  • Distance learning at times and places chosen by the learner;
  • In their own words: Learning from the experiences of first time distance students
  • Contextualising virtual interaction opportunities in the health sciences.
• A book of case studies from the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group
• Two volumes of papers presented at the dehub Education 2011-2021 Summit
• Five monographs on:
• • Realising the full socio-economic promise of the National Broadband Network in preparing all regions of Australia for participation in the Digital Economy Monograph_1
  • Higher Education Capacity Building: Looking to the future Monograph_2
  • Social media-enabled learning and the curriculum in Australian higher education: A literature review Monograph_3
  • Teaching and Learning in Distance Education in the 21st Century: An Overview of Policies, Trends, Issues and Challenges in the Australian Context Monograph_4
  • Internationalisation and Globalisation of Higher Education: Implications for Africa’s Higher Education System Monograph_5

Call for papers

In an effort to provide more dissemination options for ODL researchers, dehub is collaborating with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC, www.uoc.edu) to co-edit and jointly publish the Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento (RUSC, Universities and Knowledge Society Journal, http://journals.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/rusc/index).
RUSC has well-established publication credentials and we hope to expand the readership of this quality, free, bilingual, open publication by opening a conversation between the northern and southern hemispheres.
To celebrate this collaborative agreement, dehub will oversee a special edition of Universities and Knowledge Society Journal (RUSC) that will focus on our immediate region in the southern hemisphere. We are interested in receiving papers on OER initiatives that address different perspectives of the changing 21st-century educational environment in broader Oceania and have identified eight thematic areas that could be addressed.
Call for Papers (closes 31 December 2013) [more]

About dehub

dehub operates under the sponsorship of the University of New England (UNE, located in Armidale, NSW, Australia) as a research initiative specializing in promotion of scholarship for innovation in online and distance learning (ODL). Since its establishment, dehub has strived to be a research and networking centre, connecting different stakeholders, with the aim of promoting and supporting collaboration in ODL research, innovation and other initiatives in education and lifelong learning. dehub’s aim is to inform and influence policy and improve practice in online and distance education based on evidence from national and international research outcomes.
dehub nurtures scholarship in ODL by

• promoting research activity and outcomes to influence practice and inform decision-making, strategic directions and policy trends
• evaluating and researching all aspects of e-learning, including policies and legislative frameworks, educational systems and software, quality assurance mechanisms, learner/teacher experiences and practices, and theoretical and pedagogical considerations
• providing resources and services to support ODE educators
• maintaining a global network of ODE scholars and other stakeholders