Welcome to the ninth issue! This issue contains four papers representing the areas of online course management, action research and intern management, all written in an easy to read style you will find useful.

• Yonghong Jade Xu, Katrina A. Meyer and Dianne Morgan’s Piloting a Blended Approach to Teaching Statistics in a College of Education:  Lessons Learned confirm concerns that adding technology to statistics course delivery may not return improved learning results, particularly for weaker students.
• Heidi Perreault, Lila Waldman, Melody Alexander and Jensen Zhao’s Comparing the Distance Learning-Related Course Development Approach and Faculty Support and Rewards Structure at AACSB Accredited Institutions between 2001 and 2006  longitudinal study highlight the limitations in training and compensation, noting a limited amount of team training.
• Ruth Gannon Cook and Caroline Crawford’s Combining Quality and Expediency with Action Research in ELearning Instructional Design promote action research as a viable qualitative method to discover subtle team collaboration issues useful for instructional design.
• Kelly Wilkinson’s Using Breeze for Communication and Assessment of Internships: An Exploratory Study encourages use of Adobe’s Breeze software to help interns visually communicate their experience with both site and internship supervisors.

The Journal of Educators Online (the JEO ) is published at www.thejeo.com in January and July of each year.  If you have a high quality paper you want considered for peer review publication, please contact the editor, Matt Elbeck at melbeck@troy.edu.  Committed to excellence, the JEO is disseminated online without charge as a high quality and useful resource for educators, students, administrators and policy makers in all disciplines.

The Journal of Educators Online, Volume 5, Number 2, July 2008