Scope Prior to Fall 2026

Prior to Fall 2026, the Journal of Educators Online (JEO) published theoretical and empirical research articles, critical reflections, case studies, and classroom innovations addressing technology-mediated learning in higher education. Topics included teaching and learning, assessment, pedagogy, course content, and organizational issues related to online and technology-enhanced education.

Scope and Focus — Updated Fall 2026

Beginning in Fall 2026, JEO focuses on empirical research that advances understanding of technology-mediated teaching and learning in higher education. Relevant areas include teaching and learning, assessment, pedagogy, course design and content, and organizational issues within online, digital, and technology-enhanced learning environments.

Manuscripts should be grounded in relevant literature and supported by an appropriate theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical foundation. JEO welcomes rigorous qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research.

The journal prioritizes studies that contribute insights with relevance beyond a single course, discipline, population, program, or institutional context. Research situated within a specific setting should clearly articulate the broader implications of its findings and their potential applicability or transferability to other higher education contexts.

Submissions should make a meaningful contribution to the broader understanding of digital pedagogy, online education, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning across diverse higher education environments.

Target Audience

Manuscripts published in JEO are relevant to a broad audience of higher education faculty and administrators. Our audience are educators, policy-makers and students interested in the development, delivery, and management of technology-mediated learning in the Arts, Business, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Sciences and Social Sciences. Readers benefiting from JEO include full-time, part-time, face-to-face, hybrid, and online faculty. As a cross-disciplinary journal, JEO emphasizes topics and articles that are generalizable across a range of disciplines.

Open Access

JEO is a Diamond Open Access journal, meaning that all content is freely available without charge to both users and authors. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.

Open Access Archiving Policy

Once an article has been accepted for publication, authors may post the accepted version of the article on their own personal website, department’s website or institution repository without any restrictions. When posting or re-using the article, authors must provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the article at JEO.

Copyright

JEO publishes only original manuscripts (i.e., manuscripts under review with another publication, previously published, or revised versions of previously published manuscript are not acceptable). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/int/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Indexing and Promotion

To facilitate article dissemination, JEO is indexed via:

• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• EBSCO host
• Scopus

In addition, JEO is included in the following journal databases:

• Cabell Publishing: Complete Business College Set, Educational Technology & Library Science Directories
• Elsevier
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Acceptance Rate

The acceptance rate for JEO is currently 30-35%.