Editor’s Notes

It is a familiar story. A group of scholars go to a conference. They present. They meet. They talk. Someone says, “Hey, we should do a book.” And then, as if by magic, a book is born. So it was with this project. Amy, Jered, and I presented in the same session in the Online Teaching and Learning special interest group at the American Educational Research Association. We were interested in each other’s work and decided to do a project together. We were also interested in thinking about online learning as more than technological innovation, although technology is such an important part of learning in any context these days. It was educators, learners, and families engagement together online as the winds of policy blew in constantly changing directions that struck us particularly.