Welcome to the New eLearn!

I’m thrilled to be coming on board as Editor in Chief.  We’ve worked hard to identify ways of keeping the best of the last 10 years while looking for new areas of focus and ideas for reaching a broader community of readers. eLearning has evolved so much since 2001, from “CBT” and the early days of “distance education,” through virtual classrooms and virtual worlds to, now, the brave new frontier of handheld devices and mLearning, in an age with so much being created, shared, and curated through the new channels provided by social media.

The eLearn reader we hope to reach is  interested in and willing to use new technologies and approaches in creating, delivering, and supporting instruction (both academic and organizational) and workplace performance improvement.  This reader sees him- or herself as an educator or workplace learning practitioner interested in professional development, improving practice, and learning more about learning regardless of the vehicle.  He regards professional development and lifelong learning as an obligation for any practitioner in any field.  She is not a schoolmarm with a ruler.

eLearn will continue to publish content for the higher ed audience but will expand material for  those involved in workplace training, instructional design, and performance support.   We’ve already begun this journey with Cammy Bean’s wonderful  “Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky-Bling-Bling”, Aaron Silvers’ review of Thomas and Brown’s New Culture of Learning, and Tracy Parish’s reportage from Learning Solutions 2011.

We welcome reader submissions:

-Case Studies, particularly the “how I overcame…” and “how I successfully used…”  variety.  We’d love to showcase positive deviants and those accomplishing objectives despite the usual organizational constraints.

-Research. We are very interested in pieces from academia that focus on technology implementation and integration, learning and teaching strategies, instructor roles, learner experiences, facilitating online communities and social networks, etc. We are open to graduate student work, including reviews of (especially) current literature; one of my own frustrations as a grad student was that so much supervised work was graded and just shelved.  We would love to hear more from faculty at universities, particularly those with technology education, HRD, and workforce development programs, and encourage them to submit their own work or encourage submission of student work.  As so much literature is inaccessible to the non-university-affiliated practitioner, reworking or summaries of previously published research pieces will be considered for publication.

-Reviews of books or other publications, including something like highlighting a particularly strong and prolific blogger. 

-Reviews of conferences and other events.

Have an idea for an article or review? Please review our Writer’s Guidelines.

We also welcome feedback about what you’d like to see in the future. Please leave a comment below.

We hope you share our eagerness to enter a successful second decade of eLearn.

Best,
Jane Bozarth