Welcome to the sixteenth issue! This issue contains two papers representing the areas of online student performance, and student teleconferencing preferences, all written in an easy to read style you will find useful.

• Alyse C. Hachey, Claire W. Wladis and Katherine M. Conway’s Is the Second Time the Charm? Investigating Trends in Online Re-enrollment, Retention and Success examine key student metrics of success and retention. Alyse, Claire and Katherine discover that prior online course experience correlates strongly with future online course success and retention, in turn suggesting that support services need to be targeted to new online students and those students with prior unsuccessful online course performance.
   
• Sharon G. Heilmann’s Can You Hear Me Now? Assessing Students’ Classroom Communication Preferences via a Telephone Conference Activity examines student project presentation preference between in-class versus telephone conference. Sharon’s work concludes that teleconference may be considered a practical alternative to face-to-face presentations, albeit heightened perceptions of discomfort by female students.
   

Journal of Educators Online 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 Journal of Educators Online 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 9, Number 1, January 2012