The most recent issue of Educause Quarterly has an experiment in virtual participatory design, which leverages both crowd-sourcing and Web 2.0 technologies. This experiment brings in people with backgrounds in IT and entomology and other mixed backgrounds to contribute to the continuing design of a digital entomology lab at Kansas State University.

Librarians worldwide are increasingly adopting modern technologies to enhance the accessibility and reference value of their research collections.

Dr. Hai-Jew's newest publication, Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies, will become available this Winter. An excellent resource for any library, her edited research volume, Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies and Trends, is currently available in the IGI Global Bookstore.

Dr. Hai-Jew's newest publication, Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies, will become available this Winter. An excellent resource for any library, her edited research volume, Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces: Emerging Technologies and Trends, is currently available in the IGI Global Bookstore.

New technologies for higher education, when integrated properly into the classroom, have great potential for enhancing student-teacher interaction, whether done face-to-face or remotely.

Interacting with your professor remotely just got a little bit easier. And it works in the live classroom.

IGI Global would like to thank Shalin Hai-Jew for contributing this article outlining how faculty can use lecture capture tools to enhance their online instruction. Dr. Hai-Jew's newest publication, Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies, will become available this Winter.

IGI Global would like to thank Shalin Hai-Jew for contributing this article outlining methods for making multimedia web content accessible through several mediums. Dr. Hai-Jew's newest publication, Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies, will become available this Winter.

For years now, there's been talk of cobbling together a range of Web 2.0 technologies for a coherent learning experience. Some faculty have already done so—they've used wikis or blogs as a space for asynchronous interactivity and student sharing of work, and they just use a stand-alone electronic grading system.

Each issue of IGI Global's Quarterly Journal Newsletter will "Spotlight" a successful journal that adds to the surrounding scholarly debate and provides excellent research on a variety of topics.

The success of an online curriculum can depend heavily on the degree to which online faculty members create a culturally sensitive and consistent learning environment.

As incoming students become more and more reliant upon mobile technologies and web-based resources to accomplish their daily activities, established colleges and universities face new challenges as they try to accommodate student needs.

Every teacher, lecturer, or professor has had a class when it was difficult to get the students to participate in meaningful discussion.