Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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Author Guidelines

Submission guidelines

Please read these guidelines before submission.

To make a submission go to http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime/author/

Submissions should have a clear educational focus or application, and should illuminate the special contribution that digital media can make to learners' knowledge, understanding or skill. Submissions are expected to advance knowledge in the field in some way, by developing theory, or critiquing existing work, or providing an analysis or framework for understanding empirical findings.

Different kinds of submissions will be judged by different criteria. Ideally, we are looking for integrated submissions that present the theoretical basis for a technology, its design process and implementation, its evaluation, and theoretical implications. However, one or more these aspects may form the basis for a submission.

• Empirical Articles: describe the collection and interpretation of data concerning the design or use of an educational technology artifact. Data might include interviews, observations, surveys or experimental manipulations. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection are welcome. Quantitative analyses should include appropriate statistical tests. Authors should clarify and critique the theoretical basis for the technology being evaluated. Review criteria include the appropriateness and rationale for the methods of data collection and analysis, and the significance of the conclusions for practice or research in educational technologies.
• Experience Articles: describe the application of principled methods, theory, or tools to the design, development, and/or deployment of an educational technology artifact. Review criteria include the value of the reflections abstracted from the experience and their relevance to other designers, educators, or researchers working in the field.
• Systems Articles: describe the software and technology associated with a novel application, design, or development tool. Review criteria include the originality, preciseness of description and relevance to other educational technology designers or educators. Authors should be clear as to what extent the system has been implemented and evaluated, and should make explicit the theoretical basis for the technology if this is not the focus of the submission.
• Literature Reviews and Theoretical Analyses: characterise the literature relating to a particular issue; identify key theoretical issues that need to be resolved; propose ways forward. Review criteria include the conceptual framework (if any) used to characterise and structure the literature review, justification of the importance of a theoretical issue, and potential of the theoretical approach proposed.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, please follow the instructions for ensuring a blind review.  Submissions which do not follow these guidelines will be returned to authors before being sent for peer review.  This may delay the progress of your submission.

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