Hi all,Thanks John for circulating the call for proposals, and Robert and Maha for your comments.On behalf of my special issue co-editors Suzan Kozeoglu and Aras Bozkurt, as well as myself, I would just like to say we are delighted to have the opportunity to put together a special issue focused on OEP in the context of Open and Distance Learning, and consideration of critical perspectives. We believe that Distance Education is a great journal with a long history of publishing important work in this field and we are grateful to have this chance to define the topic for a special issue.We are also aware that some people will feel they would rather publish in OA venues and we respect that. Of course we agree it would be excellent if scholarly publishing in general had resolved the economics of publishing in favour of fully funded, Gold OA without article processing charges (APCs), and if this journal was OA, but at the current time it is a hybrid journal (in other words it offers the option to make articles Gold OA via APCs, which clearly is not affordable to all scholars), and supports Green OA for all other articles (in other words, authors can make a pre-print available via an institutional repository or personal website with no embargo period, which can then be discovered via the use of google scholar or the unpaywall extension, for example). This is less ideal than instant Gold OA and for this reason we have asked the journal about the possibility of making this an OA issue, and we are hoping it will be possible. Whether this request is successful or not, this time, we feel that it is worthwhile making it and putting the issue on the radar of the editorial board. Over time we hope to see many journals flip to OA but the societies which run them need to develop alternative revenue models to make this happen. In the meantime we believe it is important to adopt Green OA practices to ensure papers are available to the widest possible audience.Best wishesLeo HavemannDigital Education Advisor, UCL / Postgraduate Researcher, Open UniversityUnfortunately, at the moment, I was told it would not be OA but I think they are trying.It's really annoying that they even have to ask. It should be default: if you're having a special issue about open, the papers should be open.MahaMaha Bali, PhD
Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo
http://blog.mahabali.me--The $1000 question is of course: will this issue be published Open Access?----Dear Colleagues,Bea de los Arcos tweeted about this information piece which I found noteworthy to share in the community.Distance Education the official journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia Inc. (ODLAA) calls for proposal in this Special Issue on Open Education Practices.Read more about the call and the timelines here.With gratitude,JohnOKEWOLE, John Taiwo
Yaba College of Technology
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