This sceptred ILE

We have enjoyed a very successful year at Interactive Learning Environments (ILE), the journal I took on as co-editor in January. I'm working alongside Piers Maclean and Joe Psotka who are hard working guys. We have managed to bolster our editorial board with some impressive new members, including John Cook (London Metropolitan University), John Traxler (University of Wolverhampton), Palitha Edirisingha (University of Leicester), Ingo Stengel (University of Applied Social Sciences, Darmstadt) and Nicola Whitton (Manchester Metropolitan University). We also have an army of excellent reviewers without whom we would not have enjoyed the success we have had this year. We were delighted to hear that ILE has jumped up to 40th place in the Journal Citation Reports index with an impact factor of 0.941. We have extended the journal from 3 to 4 issues a year, and in January we start full online submission using Manuscript Central.

The December issue of Interactive Learning Environments is now out and all 7 papers focus on how Web 2.0 tools can be used to promote and support interactive learning. From over 50 submissions, guest editors Yueh-Min Huang, Stephen Yang and Chin-Chung Tsai have gathered together an interesting set of articles and my thanks go to them for an excellent job well done. Below is an extract from their editorial detailing the paper themes:

The seven papers included in this special issue elaborate Web 2.0 from various perspectives. One paper considers the limitations of learning styles and cultural values imposed to the usage of Web 2.0; one paper illustrates various paradigms for providing semantic services from a social perspective; two papers illustrate the usage of blogs for identifying learner and teacher behaviour patterns; one paper discusses online recommendation of tutors and experts for enhancing online learning supports; and two papers explore knowledge building and sharing through integrated knowledge repository and concept maps.

We are planning more special issues for ILE in 2010 that will be at the very leading edge of learning technology, and in 2011 we will go to 5 issues a year. Looks like we are going from strength to strength!

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