Open Education Studies

MANUSCRIPTS

Open Education Studies encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner. All submissions must be made via online submission system Editorial Manager

In case of problems, please contact the Managing Editor of this journal (Joanna.Kosinska@degruyter.com).

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS　

Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. Authors are strongly advised to submit the final version of the paper using the journal’s LaTex Template.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors 　

EDITORIAL POLICY　

Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.　

Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.

Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.　

Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish . Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.　

Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.　

Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.　

Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief:
Prof. Dr. Theo J. Bastiaens, University of Hagen, Germany; Open University of the Netherlands

Editorial Con​tact:
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

Senior Editors:
Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia, and Danube University Krems, Austria
Daniel B. Wright, University of Nevada, United States

Editorial Advisory Board:
Saul Carliner, Concordia University, Canada
Chun-Yen Chang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Geoffrey Crisp, University of New South Wales, Australia
Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers, University of South Alabama, United States
Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Lyn D. English, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Roland H. Grabner, University of Graz, Austria
Yishay Mor, Levinsky College of Education, Israel
Matthias Nückles, University of Freiburg, Germany
Marie-Christine Opdenakker, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Carla Pinto, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Christiane Spiel, University of Vienna, Austria
Martin Valcke, Ghent University, Belgium
Lieven Verschaffel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Richard Waller, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Richard E. West, Brigham Young University, United States

Editors:
Betul Babayigit, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Farshad Badie, Berlin School of Business & Innovation, Germany
Ana Barbosa, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Nicole Bianquin, Aosta Valley University, Italy
Małgorzata Bronikowska, Poznań University of Physical Education, Poland
Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Rawad Chaker, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
Jeremy Delamarter, College of Education and Counseling, Saint Martin's University, USA
Benjamin Fauth, Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Kristof Fenyvesi, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Ján Gunčaga, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Tomasz Kopczyński, University of Silesia, Poland
Lauri Lantela, University Lecturer, University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Sciences, Finland
Zsolt Lavicza, Johannes Keppler University, Linz, Austria
Victoria I. Marín, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Héctor Opazo Carvajal, Universidad Católica Silva Henriquez, Chile
Stefanie Panke, University of North Carolina, USA
Carla Pinto, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Theodosia Prodromou, University of New England, Australia
Víctor Hugo Perera Rodríguez, University of Seville, Spain
Melvin Vooren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kostas Zafiropoulos, Department of Educational & Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Greece

Managing Editor
Joanna Kosińska

Publisher
DE GRUYTER Poland
Bogumila Zuga 32A Str.
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 701 50 15

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