About the Journal

Aim and Scope

International Journal of Designs for Learning is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing descriptions of artifacts, environments, and experiences created to promote and support learning in all contexts by designers in any field. Published biannually, the journal provides a venue for designers to share their knowledge-in-practice through rich representations of their designs and detailed discussion of decision-making. The journal supports the production of high-quality precedent materials and promotes and demonstrate the value of doing so. Audiences for the journal include designers, teachers, students of design, and scholars studying the practice of design. The IJDL Library of Congress ISSN is 2159-449X.

Unique Aspects of IJDL Submissions

IJDL publishes text and hybrid text/multimedia scholarly cases. All submissions to IJDL are reviewed in text format before they are accepted for publication.

Cases typically include primarily text, but image and multimedia assets embedded in the document (which will later be stored in archival form by IU Libraries, if the article is accepted) are permitted. The layout of the manuscript will be indicated by the author in the initial reviewed document. After the article is accepted for publication, the assistant editor will work with the author to format the document into the required layout for publication, including the journal logo, article abstract, and author bios. Text articles are generally between 5000 and 9000 words, and contain a number of illustrations or other multimedia assets.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts are reviewed by at least one of the editorial team members (desk-accept/reject process) to determine suitability to enter the anonymous peer-review process. If a manuscript is deemed out of scope or not formatted as a design case, the editorial team may desk-reject a manuscript with feedback to the author to either support a subsequent submission or to identify another relevant venue. During the desk-accept/reject process, the editorial team follows a developmental approach to help you improve your manuscripts to fit the requirements of a design case for IJDL, which may mean that you will receive feedback prior to the anonymous review.

IJDL expects reviewers to give constructive, unbiased evaluations of your manuscript. They should consider your manuscript as objectively as possible and without regard to your race, gender, religion, nationality, sexuality, seniority, or institutional affiliation if these are revealed throughout the manuscript. The editorial team reserves the right to edit or fully reject any review containing biased content and to end a biased reviewer’s association with the journal if they see fit.

For manuscripts deemed appropriate for the IJDL, design cases are assigned to two peer reviewers. Please allow a minimum of six weeks for the completion of the first review. After the conclusion of the first review round, you will be notified with an editorial decision: minor revisions, major revisions, accept, or reject. If the author chooses to make revisions, a detailed revision table must be provided. The review process is the same for both text and hybrid text/multimedia articles. Once your article has been reviewed, revisions have been completed on the manuscript, and the article has been accepted by the editor, the editorial team will work with the corresponding author to prepare the article for publication. If the Editor-In-Chief requests revisions, these will be communicated to the author(s), who may choose to make those revisions or withdraw the manuscript.

The estimate average number of weeks between initial article submission and final publication is as long as 40 weeks.

The preparation of text articles for publication requires the use of the IJDL template, provided here in Microsoft Word 2007 format, and should be used to submit your manuscript for review. Styles and formatting suggestions are provided, but the document will be formatted by the assistant editor prior to publication if accepted. For review purposes, include all images as "inline" with an appropriate caption. All figures will be requested as separate, high-quality files (e.g., PDF, JPG, PNG) if the article is accepted for publication. Authors' names and affiliations, as well as any reference to authors' names throughout the manuscript, need to be removed, to ensure an anonymous review process.

Please note that this is an online journal with a significant amount of multimedia content, so publisher run-offs are not available.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. IJDL permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. Except as otherwise noted, the content published by IJDL is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Long-term Preservation

This journal utilizes the CLOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

CLOCKSS system has permission to ingest, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.

Repository Policy

Authors may deposit a copy of their published IJDL submission in their affiliated institutional repository immediately upon publication. While any version of your work (1. Submitted version, 2. Accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript), or 3. Published version) may be deposited without embargo, we recommend using the final publication version (Version of Record). The repository version should link back to the original IJDL landing page for the submission.

Publisher

Association for Educational Communications & Technology / Indiana University Bloomington