On the Microsoft sponsorship of "Innovate", a journal for online education
由 李淑召 于 周日, 2007-10-07 18:25 提交。Dear Jim,
I've enjoyed reading the articles from Innovate, and really appreciate
this OA effort from the editors and sponsors. I'm glad to see Innovate
grow with corporate supports. From a reader's point of view, I'd like
to add some my own thoughts to this latest development.
I believe you all are aware of the fine line an academic journal walks
over commercial sponsorships. Any negligence might have damaging
consequences. The quality and reputation of a journal build on its
independent and fair editorial processes, in which vendor-neutrality
is a firm principle. Online education is a technology-intensive field.
A review of the technology is automatically disqualified if it fails
to focus on the technology itself. And it is simply a matter of
pedagogical and intellectual standard to distinguish a technology from
its vendors, and not to enslave ourselves to technologies.
Therefore it is critical for a journal to clearly separate its edited
papers from "branded marketing". A slight confusion will deeply hurt
both the authors and the readers.
I with the best to Innovate and its staff.
Sincerely yours,
Shuzhao
[From James L Morrison, Editor-in-Chief, Innovate]
We are delighted to announce that Microsoft is the first charter sponsor of
Innovate under a new program designed to build alliances with corporate
participants in the educational technology community. The sponsorship
program will widen Innovate’s scope while ensuring that Innovate will
continue to be available as an open access e-journal.
For the past three years, the Fischler School of Education and Human
Services at Nova Southeastern University published Innovate as a public
service to the community. In that time, Innovate has built a reputation as
a premier journal that offers fresh insights and innovative applications at
the intersection point of technology and education. With over 43,000
subscribers in 228 countries, Innovate has become a resource for the global
community of educators, administrators, and scholars.
The sponsorship program affords technology providers the opportunity to
partner with Innovate to help spread the word about creative new uses of
technology that will enhance educational effectiveness. In concert with
this effort, we are offering sponsors a voice on our Web site via a new
section, "From Our Sponsors." As described in the "About this Journal"
link, we will publish articles in this section that focus on (1) how
educators use our sponsors’ products to enhance teaching, learning,
and administration, (2) the services our sponsors have provided or intend
to provide to enhance educational effectiveness, and (3) how our sponsors
view the future of education and the role information technology tools will
play in addressing educational problems and issues. These articles will
meet Innovate’s high editorial standards; they will be rigorously
reviewed and edited to enhance their value to the global community.
As part of the sponsorship arrangement with Microsoft, we invite you to
submit manuscripts describing uses of Microsoft technology (e.g., Office,
SharePoint, WL@EDU) that enhance, extend, or in some cases replace
traditional pedagogical or research methods. Interested authors should
contact me with a brief description of the proposed article and an
approximate date of submission.
We also invite other technology providers to join us as charter sponsors in
this program.
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