About this journal

Merger Announcement

Education, Communication & Information (ECi) is a major new journal dedicated to exploring the interaction of innovations in educational theory, practice and technologies. It will feature international research, theoretical debates, and analyses of effective practices. The Editors encourage critical and comparative analyses including paradigms and methodologies that cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contributions are welcome from a wide range of educators, including academics, students, teacher educators, policy makers, librarians and teachers from sectors including adult and non-formal education.

Dialogue will address the following sorts of questions of global concern:

• Is Information and Communications Technology (ICT) changing views of knowledge, learning and pedagogy?
• What do new theories of education and curriculum imply for the design of educational technology?
• What do we know about forming and sustaining learning communities?
• How are these ideas influenced by communications technology in different parts of the world?
• How do cultural, linguistic, philosophical and technical variables influence the development and integration of educational technology?
• How does ICT influence conceptions of orality, literacy, and other modes of meaning making?
• How will ICT affect the use of paper-based texts, and notions of copyright, authorship and censorship?
• What are the implications for education?
• Will ICT promote or inhibit equality in education and access to information, in terms of gender, ethnicity, disability and geographic location?
• What are the issues for educators?

Special Features:
In addition to major articles ECi includes updates of current trends, major reports, initiatives and research publications. There are reviews of online publications, websites, CD-ROMs and books. Following the first year of publication there will also be annual guest-edited, themed issues.

The ECi website is an important complement to the journal and provides an ongoing forum for debate. For more information about Education, Communication and Information please visit the Open University website dedicated to the journal at http://www.open.ac.uk/eci

Editors:

Jenny Leach - Open University, UK
Gill Kirkup - Open University, UK

Founding Editor:

Stone Wiske - Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

Associate Editors:

Richard Andrews - Department of Educational Studies, University of York, UK
Boris Berenfield - International Center, Concord Consortium, USA
Andrew Burn- London University Institute of Education, UK
Bob Moon - Open University, UK
Andrea Kárpáti- Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Wendy Morgan - Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Juana M. Sancho - University of Barcelona, Spain

Editorial Assistant:

David Harrison - Open University, UK

Project Assistant:

Katie Bell - Open University, UK

Reviews Editors:

Gajaraj Dhanarajan
David Eddy Spicer - Harvard University, USA

Research and Development Assistant:

Jae-Eun Joo - Harvard University, USA

Editorial Board:

Robert Baker - Institute for Educational Development, University of Aga Khan, Pakistan
Chris Bigum - School of Scientific and Developmental Studies, Australia
Elizabeth Burge - University of New Brunswick, Canada
Courtney Cazden - Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
John Collins - Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Kristi Rennenbohm Franz - Cambridge, MA, USA
Joachim Fronia - European Commission, Belgium
Howard Gardner - Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
John Gultig - South African Institute of Distance Education, South Africa
Nora Ghetea de Jaegerman - National Center for the Improvement of Science Education, Venezuela
Youngsoo Kim - Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Richard Lanham - University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Fredric Litto - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Marcelo - University of Seville, Spain
Robin Mason - Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK
Bob McCormick - Open University, UK
Kgomotso Motlotle - Commonwealth of Learning, Botswana
Hannele Niemi - University of Tampere, Finland
Tim O"Shea - Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Michael Potashnik - Human Development Network, The World Bank, USA
Margaret Riel - University of California at Irvine, USA
Mitchel Resnick - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Gavriel Salomon - University of Haifa, Israel
Marlene Scardamalia - Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Bridget Somekh - Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
András Szücs - European Distance Education Network, Hungary
Alan Tait - Open University, UK
Martyn Wild - Edith Cowan University, Western Australia