Call for Papers, January 2009 Issue

Journal of Educators Online (JEO) invites you to submit original papers in the areas of Professional Development, Research and Evaluation, Software Application, Commentary, and Review for the January 2009 issue.  Published biannually (January and July), JEO’s readership includes online educators, students, administrators and technical support personnel.  JEO is a completely online scholarly journal serving the needs of the online academic community world-wide.  The areas of pedagogy, content, technical and organizational issues are within the scope of the journal.

JEO’s  multidisciplinary scope offers authors the opportunity to submit papers that are highly focused or broad in scope.  Topics include methods to improve online instruction, cultural and other social barriers and opportunities for online education, online delivery methods, what works and what does not, financial issues, discipline specific issues, technical issues, online versus face-to-face issues, online content to enhance in-class instruction, instructor and student assessment methodologies, group versus individual online instructional issues, funding initiatives, book and software reviews, and accreditation issues.

Submission Instructions

  1. Submit via e-mail an MS WORD copy of your manuscript to the editor, Matt Elbeck, at melbeck@troy.edu.  Typical length of submission is twenty-five pages (A4 or Letter size with one inch margins), double spaced, including abstract, appendices, references, figures, and tables. Deadline for the January 2009 issue is November 30, 2008.

  2. Include a cover page with the paper's title and the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address of the contact person.

  3. For format, we require use of the American Psychological Association’s style guide.

  4. Papers will be reviewed using an external double-blind review process.  Names of author(s) should appear only on the title page. Authors should not identify themselves or their institution elsewhere in the paper.  Paper review and feedback from the editor typically takes 4 weeks from receipt of your paper.

  5. Submission indicates that the paper or a similar version of it has not been previously published, accepted for publication, and/or is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Thank you for your interest!
Matt Elbeck, PhD
Editor, Journal of Educators Online