Quarterly Review of Distance Education

Volume 16 #2

Edited by:
Michael Simonson, Nova Southeastern University
Charles Schlosser, Nova Southeastern University

A volume in the series: Quarterly Review of Distance Education - Journal. Editor(s): Michael Simonson, Nova Southeastern University. Anymir Orellana, Nova Southeastern University.

Published 2015

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Technology Transience: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications, Ray J. Amirault and Yusra Laila Visser

ARTICLES

Technology Transience and the Challenges it Poses to Higher Education, Ray J. Amirault

Reframing the Role of Educational Media Technologies, Wim Westera

Distance Education Leadership in the Context of Digital Change, Michael F. Beaudoin

Technology Transience and Learning Data: Shifting Notions of Privacy in Online Learning, Vanessa P. Dennen

Assistive Technology Instruction Within a Continuously Evolving Technology Environment, George R. Peterson‐Karlan

The Uses (and Misuses) of Collaborative Distance Education Technologies: Implications for the Debate on Transience in Technology, YunJeong (Eunice) Chang and Michael J. Hannafin

Revisiting Teacher Preparation: Responding to Technology Transience in the Educational Setting, Lin Y. Muilenburg and Zane L. Berge

Designing Instruction in the Face of Technology Transience, Jennifer A. Linder‐VanBerschot and Laura L. Summers

Constant Change: The Ever‐Evolving Personal Learning Environment, Ricardo Torres Kompen, Josep Mª Monguet, and Miguel Brigos

In a World of Exploding Possibilities in Distance Learning, Don’t Forget About the Light Bulb, Andrea Bosch, Lisa Hartenberger Toby, and Abdul Rahman Alhamzy

Technology Transience and Distance Education in the Second Machine Age, Karen Swan