The economics of e-learning in the latest issue of RUSC
[30/04/2008]
The relationship between the economic value of the use of technology and university education and how ICT can help achieve the objectives set by distance education institutions form the basis for the latest issue of the journal.
The relationship between the economic value of the use of technology and university education and how ICT can help achieve the objectives set by distance education institutions form the basis for the latest issue of the journal.
Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento (University and Knowledge Society Journal, RUSC) issue is now available on this website with a monograph dedicated to “The Economics of E-Learning”. A number of experts have collaborated in this special issue, looking at the subject from a range of different points of view. Thus, the reader can find an introduction to the economics of e-learning, learn more about the impact of ICT on higher education students’ performance or find out about the links between distance education and the employment market.
Alongside the monograph, the journal also includes articles on other subjects, such as the links between intellectual property and knowledge management at universities by Aurora Anzola, Concetta Esposito and Nelly Cuenca, knowledge production and management at the University of the Andes, Venezuela, by Haydeé Rincón and Margally Briceño or an analysis of the move from the multilingual to the multicultural virtual classroom by Lourdes Salomón, Ana María Delgado and Rafael Oliver.
RUSC
RUSC is a free e-journal that is published twice a year. It aims to make available to a wider audience analysis and research work in fields such as university leadership in the knowledge society, change management in these institutions using e-learning, excellence and quality in e-learning, and new educational models and teaching profiles, among others. A publication of the UOC’s UNESCO Chair in E-Learning, the journal’s main language is Spanish and English, though articles may also appear in Catalan or Portuguese. Although RUSC comes out twice a year, it is periodically updated with the publication of new peer-reviewed articles.
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