Submissions for Learning Tech

Teachers, researchers and lecturers are encouraged to submit manuscripts for publication in Learning Tech to the editorial team.

Please submit unsolicited manuscripts to LearningTech@ucl.dk.

The journal only publishes research-based articles of 6000-8000 words which have been subject to double-blind peer review. Every issue of Learning Tech contains a theme section and a section of articles outside the theme.

Article acceptance criteria

Manuscripts must be submitted in Learning Tech’s article template, meeting our guidelines, requirements and criteria. Use of references must follow the APA (American Psychological Association) referencing system, and all source references in the manuscript must be accompanied by a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if any.

Furthermore, Learning Tech has a set of quality criteria for content and form, which manuscripts are expected to meet:

1.     Relevance and new knowledge

The thesis must be relevant for the theme in question. If the article submitted does not relate to the theme in question, it must be relevant for the journal’s purpose. It is also important that the article contributes new angles and expands and analyses existing theses or contributes to theory and/or method development within the research field, which the theme in question and the journal as a whole wish to contribute to qualifying. Last, but not least, the article must include previous, relevant research on the article’s topic. 

2.     Methodical, methodological, theoretical and empirical transparency

Articles must include thorough explanations of methodical and methodological choices and approaches. The basis of the article’s analyses and interpretations should be stated, clearly emphasising which material or data (theoretical as well as empirical) is being analysed and interpreted – be it empirical observation or interview material, historical sources, pedagogical theories and tendencies, statistics, course descriptions, etc. Furthermore, consistency of applied methods and theories is emphasised.

3.     Purpose and presentation

The purpose of the article and thesis must be clearly presented, well-founded and defined using scientific angles. The argumentation must be clearly progressing with clear points and conclusions. The article should also contain a discussion of the results and conclusions presented related to relevant practice. For example in relation to primary and lower secondary education/private independent education, upper secondary education or university college education.