Journal of Online Learning & Teaching

The second entry into the list of open access journals dedicated to elearning is the Journal of Online Learning & Teaching (JOLT). It is a peer reviewed and open access online publication.

The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) aims to promote scholarship in the use of the Internet and web-based multimedia resources in higher education. The first issue appeared online in July 2005 and included a number of invited papers from various disciplines. The journal is now published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Its objectives are to:

• Enable faculty to develop effective, evidence-based practices in online learning and teaching by learning from a community of researchers and scholars;
• Enable academic programs to design and deploy academic technology to optimize online learning and teaching;
• Build a community around the research and scholarly use of web-based multimedia resources for learning and teaching in higher education.

The publisher of JOLT is MERLOT, an initiative of the California State University Office of the Chancellor that provides a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff, and students from universities and colleges around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.