E-Learning and Digital Media
ISSN 2042-7530

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E-Learning and Digital Media (formerly E-Learning) is a peer-reviewed international online-only journal directed towards the study and research of e-learning in its diverse aspects: pedagogical, curricular, sociological, economic, philosophical and political. A Policy statement is available. Articles accepted for publication become the copyright of the journal, unless otherwise specifically agreed. All contributions should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere. Authors should be aware that they are writing for an international audience and should use non-discriminatory language.

All submissions to the journal are peer-refereed (anonymously) so they are published in accordance with international academic standards for research publication. For those who are refereeing articles on behalf of the journal a Referee Report form is available here.

Articles for consideration should be sent by email attachment or on disk to the Executive Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters, E-Learning and Digital Media, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, PO Box 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand (mpeters@waikato.ac.nz).

Books for review should be sent to Michele Knobel & Dana Wilber, Department of Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education, College of Education & Human Services, 3173 University Hall, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA.

The journal publishes five kinds of submissions:

  • quality academic articles (generally 6000-8000 words);
  • national and international policy reports (unspecified length);
  • policy research notes (2000 words maximum)
  • reviews (1000 words maximum)
  • interchanges (interviews, right of reply etc.)

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Authors are welcome to deposit their original/personal manuscript files 'live' in their institution's archive (ideally with a link to the final version of the article as it appears on the journal's website) but the journal asks that authors do not deposit the final typeset version (i.e. the website version) until two years after formal publication. Please note that all articles published within Symposium journals automatically become free-access two years after publication, so authors are asked to respect that embargo period.

Manuscripts should be submitted as email attachments in RTF (Rich Text Format), but any major word-processor is acceptable. Please do not over-format the manuscript with the word-processor as this impedes the publication process.

The author's name and affiliation should appear at the beginning of the article, together with full postal and email addresses. This should be followed by a short description of their current position and research/teaching interests.

It is essential that an Abstract (100-200 words) be provided for each article.

Figures and tables should have their positions marked clearly and be provided on separate pages. Figure numbers should be shown as Arabic numerals, table numbers as Latin numerals.

Headings and sub-headings should be clearly distinguished.

References should be provided in the text with the authors name followed by the year in brackets, for example: Yelland & Grieshaber (1998). If a direct quote is used the page number will need to be added. For example: Yelland & Grieshaber (1998, p. 13).

All material/works cited in the article need to be included in an alphabetical reference list at the end. Please use the following style:

Book
Chartrand, L., Duchesne, R., Dubord, M. & Gingras, Y. (1987) Histoire des Sciences au Québec. Montréal: Boréal.

Chapter in a book
Härnqvist, K. (1997) Educational Research in Sweden: infrastructure and orientation, in K.E. Rosengren & B. Öhngren (Eds) An Evaluation of Swedish Research in Education. Uppsala: HSFR.

Article in a journal
Geiger, R.L. (1975) The Institutionalization of Sociological Paradigms: three examples from early French sociology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 11(3), 235-245.

Online documents
Lather, P. (2004) Getting Lost: feminist efforts toward a double(d) science. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 12-16 April. http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/plather/pdf/conferences/preface_aera%5B1%5D.doc.pdf

When first mentioned, acronyms should be preceded by the title in full. Journal titles should not be abbreviated.

Footnotes should not be used. Endnotes need to be located in the text by numbers within square brackets ([1], [2] etc) as normal-size numbers/brackets and not as superscripts.

Proofs will be sent in PDF format to the author designated to receive them, and should be corrected and returned immediately to the Editors. Contributors will be notified when the article has been published on the Journal's website.

Please contact our publishers (info@symposium-journals.co.uk) if you have any questions or need further information about the preparation of word-processed documents for publication.

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