The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) calls for papers for a Special Issue on Innovations in Online and Blended Education in Community Colleges. The intent is to collect short stories about innovative online and blended education practices in the nation’s community colleges. These stories should describe online and/or blended activities that illustrate how community colleges are using online/blended to further educational objectives and reach new populations including the workforce and ABE/ESL populations. Whenever possible, data should be included – for example, increases in enrollments, evidence of providing additional access to education, the effectiveness of the education delivered and especially interesting models that would be of interest to the entire Sloan-C community.

Co-editors for the issue are David Sachs, Associate Dean and Professor of Technology Systems in Pace University's School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and Maureen R. Bozell, Senior Associate, Workforce Strategy Center.

By May 15, 2010, please review JALN guidelines and submit papers to http://jaln.sloanconsortium.org/. Papers should be not more than 5000 words and 3 figures.

Brief submissions (3-500 words) on this topic are also invited to Sloan-C Effective Practices. Effective practices are automatically eligible for annual awards to be evaluated by innovation, replicability, impact, evidence and scope.