July 2004 issue of TOJDE is on your screen. This is a special issue on the theme of “Evaluation in Open and Distance Education: Retrospects and Prospects”. Preparing this special issue took nearly eight months, from the beginning to the arrival to your screen. A short story of this special issue is here if you are interested in. First idea and suggestion came from Dr. Patrick Danaher, an associate professor who is the Head of Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development (LEID) Centre, Division of Teaching and Learning Services, Central Queensland University, Australia, on Sunday, 19th Oct. 2003 via e-mail. I shared this suggestion with the Steering Committee of TOJDE; this discussion and decision making period took nearly more than a week and then I positively replied to Patrick on Monday, 10th Oct. 2003 and I asked him if he would accept guest editorship responsibility for this special issue. Patrick‘s respond was positive and he asked me to contact with his colleague Mr. Fons Nouwens from Development (LEID) Centre, Division of Teaching and Learning Services, Central Queensland University, Australia, to share this responsibility. Fons‘s decision was also positive. And then, I suggested as third colleague, Dr. Zeynep Erdinc, from Anadolu University, to share this responsibility and act as a communicator between TOJDE and other guest editors. We decided to publish this special issue at Volume: 5 Number: 3 in July 2004 issue of TOJDE. The special issue process has been started. Patrick, Fons and Zeynep had started initial contacts about “Call for Papers” with colleagues whom are known by them on the distance education field. Later on, abstracts of the manuscripts had arrived to them on determined deadline. A total of eleven abstracts were submitted. Three of them had been withdrawned by the authors due to time limitation. At the end, eight manuscripts were accepted for publishing.
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