Edutec - Education, Digital Technologies, and Teacher Education

Aims and scope

Edutec - Education, Digital Technologies and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary and scientific peer-reviewed editorial project that aims at the dissemination of previously unpublished scientific articles that present results of empirical research or theoretical essays and critical reviews, whose interlocutions are related to the themes of education, digital technologies, and teacher education.

Edutec welcomes originals in Portuguese, Spanish and English and is configured as a space for debate on issues that emerge from/in pedagogical practice, valuing the different theoretical and methodological approaches whose reflections are related to the following themes: use of technologies in pedagogical practice, digital literacy, distance education, blended education, media and informational education, gamification, computing applied to education, educational robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, digital culture, open educational resources, open education, pedagogical innovation, technological capital, design thinking, pedagogical design, active methodologies, among others.

 

Target Audience

Edutec aims at researchers, teachers, professionals, and students interested in the themes of education, digital technologies, and teacher education.

 

Section Policies

Scholarly articles
This section is designed to receive scientific articles related to the themes that constitute the aims and scope of Edutec, which present results of completed or ongoing research or theoretical essays. The submission guidelines must be checked in “Instructions for authors”.

Book reviews
This section is designed to receive reviews of works related to the themes that constitute the aims and scope of Edutec published up to three years before the submission date. The submission guidelines must be checked in “Instructions for authors”.

 

Peer Review Process

The articles received for eventual publication in the journal will undergo a preliminary analysis before being sent to the scientific editorial committee. Those outside the editorial criteria will be returned for adequacy.

The evaluators who are members of the Scientific Editorial Board and the consulted Ad Hoc reviewers will have a doctoral degree and belong to different scientific institutions.

The authors' names, reviewers, and institutions to which they belong will remain confidential during the entire evaluation process.

Edutec will annually publish the names of the Scientific Editorial Board and Ad Hoc reviewers on its website.

The aspects that guide the evaluation of the originals sent to the peers for analysis are theoretical and empirical content, mastery of scientific literature, the contemporaneity of the topic, contribution to the specific area of knowledge, originality of the approach, text structure, and quality of the essay. The evaluators may recommend full acceptance of the text, suggest modifications for a new evaluation, or indicate the text's rejection.

The evaluation is carried out by the double-blind system of Ad Hoc reviewer and the Scientific Editorial Board members. In case of discrepancy or divergence, a third referee will be consulted. The published texts express opinions, results, and assumptions of the exclusive responsibility of their authors.

The final editorial decision of the review process is made by the section editors, always guided by the recommendations of the reviewers, with the assistance of the calculation of the Parameters for the Editorial Decision.

 

Publication Frequency

2025-Current: Edutec - Education, Digital Technologies and Teacher Education adopts the Continuous Publication System (rolling pass) exclusively online, with the publication of up to two annual editions, each with up to 15 articles. If there are enough works to publish two editions in the year, the issues will be closed in June and December; otherwise, the annual edition will close in December. The estimated time for the editorial process, from manuscript submission to publication, is 4 to 10 months.

2021-2024: It has adopted the continuous flow of receiving submissions, exclusively online, with the publication of annual editions in December.

 

Ethical Principles
When the research presented involves human beings, it is necessary to inform compliance with the ethical procedures established for scientific research, sending evidence of these procedures as a supplementary document to the submission of the proposal, for example, approval by the Research Ethics Committee or Ethics Committee in Research, linked to higher education institutions. Except in cases where identification is allowed, anonymity must be guaranteed to the research participants and, if necessary, to the institutions; authorization or restriction on the identification must be informed in a note in the article's body. The same principle applies to the dissemination of images of people and institutions.

Access our statements of Ethics in Research and Publishing.

 

Anti-plagiarism Policy
Authors must respond to the originality and originality requirements of the article and guarantee the explanation of all sources and quotations that make up the manuscript, whether for direct quotations or paraphrases. Compliance with these requirements and conditions will be carefully checked with Edutec's plagiarism verification software tools, like Turnitin. If nonconformities are identified, the manuscript will be refused publication by the journal.

 

Conflicts of Interest
If the research developed or the publication of the work may raise doubts about possible conflicts of interest, the authors must declare in a final note that no links to funding agencies, as well as to commercial or political institutions, have been omitted. Whenever necessary, the authors can mention the liaison institution and other institutions that have collaborated in the study's execution, showing no conflicts of interest with the results presented.

 

Copyright Statement

Edutec uses the Creative Commons License - Attribution 4.0 International as a basis. It believes in the importance of the open access movement in scientific journals, such as the Open Archives Initiative.

By submitting a text to the journal, the authors agree to the following terms:

1. The authors agree to license works accepted for publication under the Creative Commons License - Attribution 4.0 International.
2. With CC-BY 4.0 licensing, authors maintain intellectual rights over the text and grant Edutec the right to first publication.
3. The authors authorize the sending and indexing of texts written by them in databases and academic and scientific information portals.
4. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online, in institutional repositories, on personal pages and academic social networks, after the editorial process, as long as the forms of licensing and presentation of the text are respected, in addition to the indication of the place of origin of the publication, in this case, the link to the Edutec.
5. The authors of the works published in the Edutec are expressly responsible for their content.
6. All works submitted to Edutec that have images, photographs, figures in which images of human beings are registered in their bodies must be accompanied by an Image Use Authorization Term by the member participating in the image and, in the case of children, family members of exposed children, with data and signature.

Privacy Policy
All data entered in the registration of this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

 

Open Access
This journal offers free access to its content, as we believe in the potential of open access to scientific knowledge as an act of citizenship and social responsibility.

Readers are asked to register with the system to comprehend the scope and impact of the journal.

 

Preservation policy

Edutec Journal adopts the publication preservation services of the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). Through a plugin integrated into the journal's management system, all published works are automatically sent for preservation at PKP PN. The preserved works may be used for recovery after the publication of this journal has ceased, according to the trigger event defined by PKP PN.

 

Interoperability Protocol

Edutec Journal uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol with metadata in Dublin Core format. Access here.

 

History
Edutec arose from a need for space for discussion on the various issues involving digital technologies and teacher education at all levels of education and in all areas of teachers' activity. The journal is linked to the Research Group on Education, Technologies and Teacher Education [Educação, Tecnologias Digitais e Formação Docente] from Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (Edutec/UFMS) and to the Research and Studies Group on Educational Technology and Distance Education [Tecnologia Educacional e Educação a Distância] of the Graduate Program in Education from the Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (GETED/UCDB). Edutec also has the technical support of the UFMS Special Secretariat for Distance Education.