Editors’ Note

This is the third issue of International Journal for Educational Media and Technology, as a collaborative work among scholars of Japan Association for Educational Media Studies (JAEMS) and Korean Association for Educational Information and Media (KAEIM). As a pair of close friends, JAEMS and KEAIM started official exchanges of having annual international conferences, International Conference for Media in Education (ICoME) in 2003 in Seoul. ICoME was continued in Osaka in 2004 and in 2008, in Pusan in 2005 and 2007, and in Tokyo in 2006. It was during our meetings that an idea of jointly publishing an international journal was proposed and the decision was made to do so.

This volume contains a revised version of concurrent session papers at ICoME 2008, which were recommended by multiple members of the board of editors. Calls for Paper were announced for the authors of recommended papers, by invitations only, and six of 13 recommended papers, out of 51 concurrent session papers, were submitted for this volume. Three editors, including one from the third country, reviewed each of the submissions, and further revised versions of the papers were accepted for this publication. Thanks to all the effort by our editorial board members, this third issue of the international journal was born with peer reviewed excellent pieces of scholarly works. In this issue, for the first time, we are honored to have two invited papers submitted from two distinguished scholars, who were invited to give keynote presentations at ICoME 2008. As Co-Editors-in-Chief of this Journal, we thank all the contributors to the journal to enable us to continue our effort to the third year.

Insook Lee
Katsuaki Suzuk

Editors’ Note

It is a pleasure to publish the second volume of IJEMT with a collaborative effort between KAEIM and JAMES. IJEMT has produced its first issue under the co-editorial team between JAEMES and KAEIM in 2007. We are fortunate to have stable numbers of submissions from ICoME (International Conference for Media in Education) each year.

Educational media and technology is experiencing continuous changes today due to the influence of new technology and changes in society in general. Technology and society play key roles in shaping education in many senses: There are increasing needs for more collaborative, more learner-centered, more flexible, and more on-demand learning and education. Eventually, those needs demand both macro and micro changes in education. The articles in the current issue reflect these needs and trends successfully by dealing with such topics as augmented reality, mobile learning, blended learning, affective communication, quality in distance education, instructional reform, or collaborative learning.

As co-editors-in-chief of IJEMT, we aim to provide rich resources on theory and practice in educational media and technology. We are extremely pleased with abundant evidences of enthusiasm for trying meaningful new ideas in manuscripts submitted for the year of 2008 issue. We anticipate an exiting future of IJEMT.

Insook Lee
Katsuaki Suzuki
Editors-in-Chief, IJEMT

Editors’ Note

This is the first issue of International Journal for Educational Media and Technology, as a collaborative work among scholars of Japan Association for Educational Media Studies (JAEMS) and Korean Association for Educational Information and Media (KAEIM). As a pair of close friends, JAEMS and KEAIM started official exchanges of having annual international conferences, International Conference for Media in Education (ICoME) in 2003 in Seoul.  ICoME was continued in Osaka in 2004, in Pusan in 2005, and in Tokyo in 2006. It was during our meetings that an idea of jointly publishing an international journal was proposed and the decision was made to do so.

This volume contains a revised version of concurrent session papers at ICoME 2006, which were recommended by multiple members of the board of editors. Calls for Paper were announced for the authors of recommended papers, by invitations only, and eight of 14 recommended papers were submitted for this volume. Three editors, including one from the third country, reviewed each of the submissions, and further revised versions of the papers were accepted for this publication. Thus comes a birth of an international journal with peer reviewed excellent pieces of scholarly works. As Co-Editors-in-Chief of this Journal, we thank all of the editors who dedicated themselves in recommendation and reviewing process in making the first issue of high quality by their insightful suggestions.

Insook Lee
Katsuaki Suzuki