VOL. 13, No. 2, 79-80
Over the last six months, we have received copies of a number of new journals.
The OUSL Journal is published yearly by the Open University of Sri Lanka. An English-language journal, its first issue was published in 1997, and the Journal provides a forum for previously unpublished articles on theory, research, and pedagogy relating to teaching at the university level, and in particular to distance education. The 1997 issue includes articles on OU student profiles on their proficiency in English, the use of diaries/journals as a research tool in estimating credit in a distance education course, a process for assessment of the credit ratings at OU:SL compared with OU:UK, and a survey of student characteristics at the OU compared with those of students in conventional universities. One interesting addition was a set of thesis abstracts that give a good indication of students’ research interests. The articles are of a high quality and the journal would be a useful resource in particular for those in distance education institutions.
This is a new journal published by the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid. Its editorial board includes representatives from UNED, Spain; UNED, Costa Rica; UNIVERSO, Brazil; UNISUR, Colombia; Universidad La Habana, Cuba; SUA-UNAM, Mexico; and UNA, Venezuela. Published in Spanish, the articles include papers on the quality of education at university and the peculiarities of the distance model; the European model of quality management in a distance university; indicators of the evaluation of teaching in a distance university; a plan for quality enhancement of the UNED; and achievements, perspectives, and critical aspects of distance teaching degree programs in economics at the FernUniversität Hagen.
Istruzione a distanza, an International Journal of Distance Education, has published a monograph, Serie monografica, 2 on Individualization at a Distance. The monograph contains articles in English, French, German, and Spanish and provides translation for every article into Italian. Articles include Fritsch on Individualization; Holmberg on Individualized distance education; Holtzer on Individualiser la formation: Problèmes et questions; Keegan on Individualization of learning: A trump card for distance systems; Montero on Individualization of distance learning: A challenge; Peters on Die Autonomie der Lernenden und ihre Bedeutung für das Fernstudium (Student Autonomy and what it means in distance teaching), and Vertecchi on A new frontier in distance education: Individualized educational messages.
OUSL Journal Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Open University of Sri Lanka
Post Office Box 21
Nawala
Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Foreign US$10.00 (inclusive of postage).
Ried(Relint@bm.uned.es.)
Istruzione a distanza(I.acciaroli@educ.uniroma3.it.)