LDL Students and Alumni’s Updates

Career Dev: Be a part of the Journal of Learning Design and Leadership

As students and alumni, we are launching an online journal: The Journal of Learning Design and Leadership.

Something we have heard from many of you is that you are looking for opportunities to publish. As online students, and especially those pursuing the EdD, you may not have a relationship with faculty and/or be involved in faculty-led research projects. We hope that this journal will provide an opportunity to showcase your work. And this journal is open to Masters or Doctoral students and alumni.

The journal would be fully online through CGScholar. Because this will be online, we plan to have a rolling publication timeline, so this should give more people the opportunity to have their work published.

We are currently looking for 5-10 volunteers to help us get this going as soon as possible. Ryan Bartelmay had the idea back in 2018, so a few of us put together a proposal of what this might look like. At the time, we didn't get the buy-in we had hoped for. But now we are moving forward. The committee will refine and finalize the plan and execute on next steps.

Dr. Cope proposed the title of The Journal of Learning Design and Leadership. The title of this journal should not imply that it is limited to those in the LDL program, but rather that it can include articles across a variety of learning-related topics. But the name should bring visibility to our program.

Please comment on this post if you'd like to get involved.

Once the committee is established, we will finalize the types of works. the submission guidelines, and the review and editorial process. But here is an example of what we might be looking for:

  1. 3,000-5,000 word Literature Review
  2. 5,000-6,000 word Dissertation Synopsis
  3. 2,000-3,000 word Case Study
  4. 2,000-3,000 word Essay
  5. 2,000-3,000 word Technology Assessment
  6. 2,000-3,000 word Book Review

Many of these are examples of works that you may have written for one of your LDL classes or your dissertation. You will be encouraged to repurpose your existing work by aligning it with our submission guidelines.

Feel free to ask questions or share comments on this idea by commenting here.

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