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The feature article in this issue deals with an aspect of electronic texts that has not before been dealt with by this journal, although it is well within our mandate: community formation in on-line education.  The article represents a welcome departure from some earlier approaches to on-line education which ask the question, "How can on-line education duplicate the interactivity of face to face education."  Rather than making face-to-face education the standard to which on-line education must rise, Woods and Ebersole tear down the question to a more basic level: "What, in an environment built largely or exclusively through the interchange of electronic texts, is the scaffolding upon which learning can be erected?"  The answer -- "community" -- is not surprising, but the authors' model of what "community scaffolding" looks like, and their list of means to achieve it, will furnish EJournal readers will new insights into the process of building relationships among learners and educators in the networked environment.

This issue marks another milestone for EJournal.  As noted in the announcement in this issue, the journal is now informally affiliated with the National Communication Association.  It is our hope that this affiliation will rejuvenate the journal by linking its interests with those of the Human Communication Technology Division of the oldest and largest communication association in the United States.

With this linkage, we expect to see many more first-rate submissions like the Woods and Eberson article, allowing EJournal to explore fully the many new directions it has set for itself.

Doug Brent
Joanna Richardson