期刊名称：JOURNAL OF COMPUTING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Journal of Computing in Higher Education, JCHE, publishes original research, literature reviews, implementation and evaluation studies, and theoretical, conceptual, and policy papers that contribute to our understanding of the issues, problems, and research associated with instructional technologies and educational environments. JCHE publishes well-documented articles and provides a comprehensive source of information on instructional technology integration. Priority is given to the publication of rigorous, original manuscripts concerning research and integration of instructional technology in higher education. JCHE provides perspectives on the research and integration of instructional technology in higher education.
Related subjects » Higher Education - Learning & Instruction
Impact Factor: 0.409 (2012) *
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Instructions to Authors
While computers are pervasive in most every aspect of higher education, the use of technology raises many questions. This journal will explore theoretical, research, application, and policy issues related to computing and the integration of instructional technology in higher education.
As individual faculty members innovate, adopt, adapt, and are encouraged to use technology for instruction, new questions need to be addressed. Is one technology more efficient than another? Are some instructional or management strategies more effective with different technologies and different students? Are unique or different policies needed for distance education? What ownership or royalties do faculty and institutions derive from the development of electronic materials including courses, courseware, and electronic books and study guides? Are new theories of instruction and learning needed to address new technologies used for instruction? How does technology affect the role of the instructor and the student? Does communication in an electronic environment differ than communication in a traditional classroom?
These questions, issues, theories, and policies require in-depth study, discussion, and analysis. The Journal of Computing in Higher Education provides a venue for exploring these ideas in a rigorous and scholarly manner. We invite the submission of research and scholarly papers from a wide range of disciplines in higher education that reflect different research, theoretical, and application perspectives concerning computing and technology integration in higher education.
Submission of articles dealing with a broad spectrum of topics will be considered. Particular themes in higher education of interest include:
- Basic and applied research with instructional technology
- Critical examination of issues related to technology integration
- Analysis and critical reviews of policies related to instructional technology and distance education
- Theoretical perspectives on instructional technology
- Diffusion and adoption studies
- Management of learning
- Innovative uses of instructional technology
- Trends in instructional technology
- Integrative literature reviews
Author instructions and a link for submission are provided in the side bar.
Editorial procedure
Double-blind peer review
This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to submit two documents at the time of their submission:
- A title page only, which includes:
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• A concise and informative title
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
• Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
• Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
- A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank.
Submission and inquiries
Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal’s online manuscript-submission and peer-review system: www.edmgr.com/jche. Inquiries should be sent to the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Gary R. Morrison (gmorriso@odu.edu).
The style of the manuscript should conform to APA style. In general, the journal follows the recommendations of the 2009 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.), and it is suggested that contributors refer to this publication when preparing the manuscript.
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Authors should submit their manuscripts to the journal’s online manuscript-submission and peer-review website: www.edmgr.com/jche. Authors may access this website directly or visit the journal homepage
(www.springer.com/12528) and click on “Submit Online.”
Title page
The title page should include:
• A concise and informative paper title
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail addresses and telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding contact author
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Biography
Please supply a short biography including institutional affiliation (1-2 sentences) for each author of the manuscript.
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be double-spaced and submitted in Word.
• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
Note: If you use Word 2007, do not create the equations with the default equation editor but use the Microsoft equation editor or MathType instead.
• Save your file in doc format. Do not submit docx files.
• PDF is not an acceptable file format. After uploading your manuscript, it will be automatically formatted as a PDF file.
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lowercase letters (or asterisk for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors’ names are not given numbers or symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section (so-headed) before the reference list.
References
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
• Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson, 1990).
• This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
• This effect has been widely studied (Abbott, 1991; Barakat et al., 1995; Kelso & Smith, 1998; Medvec et al., 1993).
Reference list
The list of references should include only works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should be mentioned only in the text.
The style and punctuation of the references should conform to strict APA style. In general, the journal follows the recommendations of the 2009 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.), and it is suggested that contributors refer to this publication.
Journal Article
- Journal Article
Plass, J. L., Homer, B. D., & Hayward, E. O. (2009). Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 21, 31-61.
- Article by DOI
Bulu, S. T., & Pederson, S. (2010). Scaffolding middle school students’ content knowledge and ill-structured problem solving in a problem-based hypermedia learning environment. Educational Technology Research and Development, doi: 10.1007/s11423-010-9150-9
- Book
Branch, R. M. (2009). Instructional design: The ADDIE approach. New York: Springer.
- Book Chapter
Morrison, G. R., Ross, S. M., & Lowther, D .L. (2009). Technology as a change agent in the classroom. In L. Moller, J.B. Huett, & D.M. Harvey (Eds.), Learning and instructional technologies for the 21st century: Visions of the future (pp. 151-173). New York: Springer.
Journal names, journal volume numbers, and book titles should be italicized.
Tables
- All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
- Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
- Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Artwork and Illustrations Guidelines
For the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you submit all of your artwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an electronic format. Your art will then be produced to the highest standards with the greatest accuracy to detail. The published work will directly reflect the quality of the artwork provided.
Electronic Figure Submission
- Supply all figures electronically.
- Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
- For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MS Office files are also acceptable.
- Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
- Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
Line Art
- Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
- Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
- All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
- Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
- Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftone Art
- Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
- If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
- Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination Art
- Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
- Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
Color Art
- Color art is free of charge for online publication.
- If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still apparent.
- If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
- Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).
Figure Lettering
- To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).
- Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
- Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
- Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
- Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.
Figure Numbering
- All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
- If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures, "A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.
Figure Captions
- Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
- Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
- No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
- Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
- Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
Figure Placement and Size
- When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.
- For most journals the figures should be 39 mm, 84 mm, 129 mm, or 174 mm wide and not higher than 234 mm.
- For books and book-sized journals, the figures should be 80 mm or 122 mm wide and not higher than 198 mm.
Permissions
If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that Springer will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your figures, please make sure that
- All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use a text-to-speech software or a text-to-Braille hardware)
- Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colors for conveying information (color-blind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements)
- Any figure lettering has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1
Electronic Supplementary Material
Springer accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author's article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.
Submission
- Supply all supplementary material in standard file formats.
- Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author names; affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
- To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may require very long download times and that some users may experience other problems during downloading.
Audio, Video, and Animations
- Always use MPEG-1 (.mpg) format.
Text and Presentations
- Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability.
- A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.
Spreadsheets
- Spreadsheets should be converted to PDF if no interaction with the data is intended.
- If the readers should be encouraged to make their own calculations, spreadsheets should be submitted as .xls files (MS Excel).
Specialized Formats
- Specialized format such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be supplied.
Collecting Multiple Files
- It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.
Numbering
- If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables.
- Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
- Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.
Captions
- For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.
Processing of supplementary files
- Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that
- The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material
- Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)
Does Springer provide English language support?
Manuscripts that are accepted for publication will be checked by our copyeditors for spelling and formal style. This may not be sufficient if English is not your native language and substantial editing would be required. In that case, you may want to have your manuscript edited by a native speaker prior to submission. A clear and concise language will help editors and reviewers concentrate on the scientific content of your paper and thus smooth the peer review process.
The following editing service provides language editing for scientific articles in all areas Springer publishes in.
Use of an editing service is neither a requirement nor a guarantee of acceptance for publication.
Please contact the editing service directly to make arrangements for editing and payment.
For Authors from China
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Offprints
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Color illustrations
Online publication of color illustration is free of charge. For color in the print version, authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra costs.
Proofreading
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After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Online First
The article will be published online after author corrections have been made. This is the official first publication citable by the DOI. After publication of the online or print issue, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Gary R. Morrison, Old Dominion University
Associate Editors
Gary Anglin, University of Kentucky
James D. Klein, Florida State University
Ginger Watson, Old Dominion University
Assistant Editor
Jennifer Maddrell, Old Dominion University
Editorial Board
Kumiko Aoki, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
Bob Bernard, Concordia University, Canada
Marci Driscoll, Florida State University, USA
Irina Elgort, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
D. Randy Garrison, University of Calgary, Canada
David Jonassen, University of Missouri, USA
Paul Kirschner, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands
Colin Latchem, Open Learning Consultant, Australia
Yiping Lou, Louisiana State University, USA
Richard Lowe, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Delia Neuman, Drexel University, USA
Jan Plass, New York University, USA
Nick Rushby, Conation Technologies, UK
Rod Sims, Capella University, USA
John Sweller, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jeroen J.G. van Merriënboer, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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