Contents

• Transition of academic journals in the Internet era

• Aims and scope of academic journals in Open and Distance Education

• The role of academic research and academic journals in the transition of The Open University of China

• Learner behavior analysis in a virtual simulation laboratory

• Interaction between learners' emotional aspects and search task type and its influence on online information search experience

• Factors affecting teachers' use of online training and research workshops

• Building capacity for open educational practices in Australian higher education

• Learning support system in The Open University of Japan (OUJ)

• Fiscal management in Athabasca University and its implications

• Digital creativity: influence of digital technology on creativity

• Design framework of personalized resource  recommendation system informed by big data
  in education: the case of the State Benchmark Courses

• Learning credit bank research: a bibliometric analysis

• Abstract