INFORMS Transactions on Education

Abstract

As I assume the position of interim Editorin-Chief of INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE ) for 2008, I am pleased to nd a journal that is healthy and enjoying steady growth in its ninth year. ITE is a rigorously refereed electronic journal on management science and operations research education that is published three times annually by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). ITE strives to achieve its mission to foster the advancement OR/MS education at all levels worldwide by publishing high-quality articles in a variety of areas related to the teaching of OR/MS cases, spreadsheet applications, review and opinion articles, resource reviews, and discussions of the impacts of new technologies and new methods of assessment on OR/MS education. The electronic format of ITE supports innovations in content and reader involvement not possible in a print journal, such as immediate electronic access to data sets, software, Java applications, interactive graphics, multimedia applications, hypertext links, and full-text searching. ITE is an open access journal, so anybody interested in OR/MS education may read the articles in the twenty-four past issues or the current issue of ITE at no cost. I invite you visit the ITE website (http://ite.pubs.informs.org/) to browse through the journal's current and past issues; you likely will nd several articles that will help you sharpen your teaching skills and improve you performance as an instructor. I am very excited about the opportunity to serve as Editor-in-Chief of ITE. While the journal has achieved a great deal in its relatively brief life, ITE is poised to accomplish a great deal more. During my term as Editor-in-Chief of ITE, I plan to work with the Editorial Board (and others, including you) to expand awareness, readership, authorship, and editorial contributions to a wider audience. I hope to accomplish this by attending international conferences and large regional conferences in targeted geographies and through outreach via email and the Internet to promote ITE and recruit authors, referees, and Editorial Board members. My recent experiences co-organizing and cochairing the INFORMS/IFORS/EURO series of OR education workshops (2006 in Montevideo, 2007 in Cape Town, 2008 in Cartagena, 2009 in Nairobi) have reinforced my beliefs that i) a very large potential worldwide audience for ITE exists and ii) every culture can learn a great deal about e ective pedagogy and instruction from other cultures. My goal is for ITE to become a worldwide facilitator of such exchanges. Also note that ITE produces an annual special issue. Topics of these issues and the years in which these issues have been published to date include: • SpORts in the OR Classroom Volume 5, Number 1, September 2004 • Integrating OR in Teaching Supply Chain Management Volume 6, Number 3, May 2006 • E ective Use of Software in the MS/OR Classroom Volume 7, Number 1, September 2006 • Educational Games Volume 8, Number 1, September 2007 • Teaching Revenue Management Volume 9, Number 1, forthcoming in September 2008 These special issues have been extremely popular and successful, and they are generally published in conjunction with special sessions at INFORMS conferences that feature presentations by authors who have written articles for the special issue. This coordination provides readers/session participants with the unique opportunity to discuss a paper with the author(s) within a few weeks of the publication of the paper. Topics under consideration for future special issues include: • unique challenges of hybrid OR/MS-Statistics classes (now common in American MBA programs); ∗Corresponding Author. E-mail: jcochran@latech.edu

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