As online academic programs continue to become more common and grow in popularity, marketing of these programs is a necessity to inform potential students of their many educational options.

"Knowledge acquisition and sharing, or in short, learning, is going through dramatic changes because of rapidly emerging new information and communication technologies and the social transformation that they generate," asserts A. W., President of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University of Business, Bahrain, in the Foreword to one of IGI Global's latest casebooks, Cases on Innovations in Educational Marketing: Transnational and Technological Strategies.

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.

In many parts of the world today, a certain amount of education is seen as a necessity to become successful or to obtain even a mid-level job, while in other parts of the world, education is still not widely available to many people due to geographic or financial restrictions.

IGI Global would like to thank Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe for contributing this guest editorial post. His recent publication, "Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy" is now available.