%0 Journal Article
%T From Editor vol 11, No.3
%A Ugur Demiray
%J The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
%D 2010
%I Anadolu University, Eskisehir
%X Greetings Dear readers of TOJDE,TOJDE is appeared on your screen now as Volume 11, Number: 3. In this issue it is published 3 notes for Editor, 12 articles, 2 book reviews. And this time, 32 authors from 10 different countries are placed. These published articles are from Barbados, Ghana, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, UAE and USA.¡°Developing and Validation A Usability Evaluation Tools For Distance Education Websites:Persian Version¡± has sent as Notes for editor section of TOJDE from Iran and written by Soheila HAFEZI, Ahmad FARAHI from Payame Noor University and Soheil Najafi MEHRI, Hosein MAHMOODI from Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran.. Their paper involves that he content validity index was measured by set of ten experts, who evaluated each item individually. According to CVI, the final version of instrument was composed of 40 questions divided into 8 domains: Navigation, Functionality, Feedback, Control, Language, Consistency, Error prevention and correction, and Visual clarity. CVI score for each phrase was more than 0.75. According to our findings, this instrument has enough validity to apply in evaluation usability of educational websites of Persian distance education websites. However, instrument reliability can be measured in further study. The second notes for editor is titled as ¡°A Critical Analysis Of Managerial Skills Competencies Of Secondary School Heads Trained Through Distance Mode of Allama Iqbal Open University¡± which is written by Muhammad AKHLAQ from Preston University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN and SHAZIA MUNAWAR SULEHRI from Ministry of Education, PAKISTAN. They mentioned in their paper to analyze the managerial skills competencies of secondary schools heads trained through distance mode of education in Pakistan. For this purpose a sample 300 secondary school teachers and 100 secondary schools head-teachers trained through distance mode and working in the Federal Government Educational Institutions (FGEI) functioning under the administration of Pakistan army.¡°Are New Technolog es Influenc ng The Academ c Results Ach eved By Students? An exploratory study¡± is the third paper for ¡°Notes for Editor¡± section of TOJDE¡¯s in this issue. It has written by Ana GARGALLO-CASTEL, Luisa ESTEBAN-SALVADOR and M. MARZO-NAVARRO from University of Zaragoza, SPAIN. The purpose of this study is to analyze the application of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) within tertiary education in a Spanish University. The results of analyzes indicated that a new initiative developed by the University of Zaragoza th
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