Using EISCAT radar data, we find that electrons are strongly heated in the
magnetic field-line direction during high electric field events. The remote
site data show that the electron temperature increases in almost the same
way in the field-perpendicular direction: electron heating by E region plas
ma turbulence is isotropic. We discuss the implications of our observation
for the "plasmon"-electron as well as the wave Joule heating models of the
anomalous electron heating in the E region.