About the journal

Aims and scope

Reflecting Digital Learning is a peer-reviewed online journal which publishes the scholarly work of early career researchers (postgraduate Masters and Doctoral students) related to digital learning. Reflecting Digital Learning welcomes contributions which are evidence-based or innovative, and which show awareness of and critical engagement with current issues in digital learning. This may include online and blended learning, design-based research related to digital learning, critical analysis of learning technologies, artificial intelligence in education, entrepreneurship related to digital learning, social media analysis related to learning, and societal impact of digital learning.

The journal will provide opportunities for current students or recent graduates to publish as first authors alone or with collaborators who may include dissertation/thesis supervisory teams, collaborating students or citizen scientists. The journal welcomes contributions which are of relevance to all phases of education and all types of provision, to digital educational leaders at all levels, to school and community teachers, to further education and professional development practitioners, to higher education tutors including teacher educators, to learning technologists and learning designers, to digital learning entrepreneurs as well as to policy makers.

The aim of the journal is:

  • to create a resource for practitioners and students within the broad field of digital learning with emergent research findings
  • act as an interdisciplinary, international forum for evidence-informed discussion and debate about digital learning, for the showcasing of excellent practice as well as for stimulating think-pieces.

In addition to more traditional academic submissions, the journal encourages submissions in the form of case studies, reflective narratives or reports on digital learning practice related in a variety of digital formats. In addition, theoretically based reviews of digital learning tools, techniques and pedagogies are welcome.

Reflecting Digital Learning is a new journal launched in 2023. The journal follows in the tradition established by its predecessor, Reflecting Education (ISSN: 1746-9082), which ran from 2005 until 2016.


Indexing

The UCL Open Access Student Journals programme works with subject specific indexers to deposit published articles in relevant repositories and search databases. Articles published in are indexed in the following:

  • Google Scholar
  • OpenAIRE
  • Portico digital archive
  • UCL Discovery

Open access policy

All articles published in Reflecting Digital Learning are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 international licence agreement (read the licence here) and published open access, making them immediately and freely available to read and download. The CC-BY licence agreement allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of the work.

Further information regarding this can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 and licensing terms and conditions can be found in the UCL Open Access Student Journals Editorial Policy

Peer review

Reflecting Digital Learning operates double blind peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review. Authors should submit an anonymous version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review.

Further information regarding peer review can be found on the editorial policy pages.

Article publication charges (APC)

UCL Open Access Student Journals do not levy an Article-Processing Charge (APC) for submission or publication in Reflecting Digital Learning. Authors will not be required to make an APC payment for submission or publication of their article.

Journal information

ISSN: TBC

Mailing address:
Reflecting Digital Learning
UCL Knowledge Lab
Department of Culture, Communication and Media
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
23-29 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QS
UK

Contact: To contact the journal Editors, please fill out the contact form here.