This paper presents the results of a study evaluating student perceptions of online assignment submission. 47 students submitted assignments and received feedback via features within the Virtual Learning Environment BlackboardTM. The students then completed questionnaires comparing their experience of online submission and feedback with traditional methods. Results indicated that 88% of student...

welcome to 2012. i hope this year will provide us with interesting innovations in both science and technology, which will affect our lives and practices in very significant ways. this has been a fantastic year for drj and certainly for me. as i look back at the previous year, there is much to be proud of. we increased the journal frequency from biannual to quarterly, and now it is bimonthly. we...

I am writing this editorial to share with you, readers of the FEMS group of journals, our plans for the introduction of a modern, easy to use online submission and peer review system from 1 January 2002. The introduction of this system is part of a series of measures that we, in FEMS, are taking to modernise and update our journals. Many of these measures are of course being taken in concert wi...