Those Barcelona PLE papers
I(n the concluding session of the PLE conference last year in Barcelona I made a rash promise. We would go through all the papers submitted to the conference, I said, and for those authors that wished, we would seek to publish the papers in a series of special editions of journal. We had no shortage of journals, with four editions offering us space. then the problems started. it is much, much more work than I had anticipated to select appropriate papers for journals with differing foci, to organise peer reviews, to contact authors and get them to undertake the revisions requested and to finally edit and format the different contributions.
I still am not sure how I feel about the academic publishing industry (for that is what it is). I am much happier with publishing in online and open journals. But I wonder if the traditional journal format best serves knowledge development. However I recognise the i9mportasnce for individual researchers in publishing their work. And although laborious, most of the reviews we received were thoughtful and helpful, although there still remain widespread discrepancies over perceptions of academic quality.
Anyway, here is the first of our edited journals, published by the online and open journal, the Digital Education Review (the second will be in International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments – to be published this Spring.
The papers in this edition are all from authors working in Spain and the journal was edited by Ricardo Torres and myself
Strategy approach for eLearning 2.0 deployment in Universities
Oskar Casquero, Javier Portillo, Ramón Ovelar, Jesús Romo, Manuel Benito
| Building Personal Learning Environments by using and mixing ICT tools in a professional way | |
| Linda Castañeda, Javier Soto |
| El diseño de Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje y la formación de profesores en TIC | |
| Julio Cabero Almenara, Julio Barroso Osuna, M.Carmen Llorente Cejudo |
| Ventajas pedagógicas en la aplicación del PLE en asignaturas de lengua y literatura de educación secundaria. Análisis de cinco experiencias | |
| Rafael Martín García |
| Evolución y desarrollo de un Entorno Personal de Aprendizaje en la Universidad de León | |
| Fernando Santamaria |
Spanish articles on PLEs http://bit.ly/e70zXR