Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012)

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Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012)

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EDITORIAL

Editorial
Changing models of learner support: the role and cost of online resources
Anne Gaskell
Pages: 99-102
Published online: 03 May 2012
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An evaluation of the use of voice boards, e-book readers and virtual worlds in a postgraduate distance learning applied linguistics and TESOL programme
Pamela Rogerson-Revell, Ming Nie & Alejandro Armellini
Pages: 103-119
Published online: 03 May 2012
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Successful and unsuccessful distance language learners: an ‘affective’ perspective
Junhong Xiao
Pages: 121-136
Published online: 03 May 2012
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Change and renewal: the role of a change team in improving student support
Charlotte Stevens & Patrick Kelly
Pages: 137-148
Published online: 03 May 2012
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Factors influencing student academic performance in online high school algebra
Feng Liu & Cathy Cavanaugh
Pages: 149-167
Published online: 03 May 2012
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CASE STUDY

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Understanding Chinese-speaking open courseware users: a case study on user engagement in an open courseware portal in Taiwan (Opensource Opencourse Prototype System)
Wen-Hao David Huang, Meng-Fen Grace Lin & Wendi Shen
Pages: 169-182
Published online: 03 May 2012
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Book and resource reviews

Book Review
Unlocking the gates: how and why elite universities are opening up access to their courses, by Taylor Walsh, 2011, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 296 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-69-114874-8
Helen Lentell
Pages: 183-190
Published online: 03 May 2012
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Instruction and technology, designs for everyday learning, by Brad Mehlenbacher, 2010, London, The MIT Press, 495 pp., (cloth) £25.95, ISBN 978-0-26-201394-9
Iain Doherty
Pages: 191-194
Published online: 03 May 2012
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