Submissions

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Author Guidelines

Authors can submit any form of writing that suits their work. We have no minimum word count but suggest to not extend above 8,000 words (excluding references).

While we expect you to adhere to academic standards like referencing, there is no rule which referencing system you ought to use as long as it is consistent within the text. Regarding ethics permission for any research involving humans, we advise you to adhere to good ethical guidelines e.g. those set out by BERA (follow link here).

If you are interested in submitting something more experimental please get in touch with the editors and the description of your idea. We would welcome visual or multimedia representations with accompanying critical narratives.

We would encourage authors to use inbuilt heading styles but otherwise not to include unnecessary formatting. Don't forget all figures and tables should have a title.

oSoTL is an online journal, so images used in figures don't need to be high resolution (a printed journal might ask for 300 dpi resolution, for example).  All images must be easily readable on a screen. Usually a resolution of 72 dpi is sufficient for display on screen, but factors such as the image dimensions and compression will have an impact on readability.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • All contributing authors have been added via the journal system. Note that it is not possible to add authors following publication.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.

Articles

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Advances in Learning Design for ESD

Special Issue: Advances in Learning Design for Education for Sustainable Development

Editors: Tünde Varga-Atkins, Norita Ahmad and Maria Toro-Troconis 

Copyright Notice

Copyright for papers and articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It is a condition of publication that authors license their paper or article under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0]

Privacy Statement

Your Personal Data

The University of Glasgow AND the University of Edinburgh will be what’s known as the ‘Joint Data Controllers’ of your personal data processed in relation to publishing your work in the Open Journal of Scholarship and Teaching. This privacy notice will explain how the University of Glasgow AND the University of Edinburgh will process your personal data.

Why we need it

We are collecting your basic personal data such as your name and email, and, optionally, your institutional address and phone number, and biographical information to publish your work in the journal. We will only collect the data we need to provide and oversee this service to you.

Legal basis for processing your data

We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance, the legal basis is:

Consent – by providing your personal data you are consenting to have your work published in the journal.

What we do with it and who we share it with

All the personal data you submit is processed by staff at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

In addition, personal data (for example, author names and email addresses) shared on an open website such as Open Journal of Scholarship and Teaching should be regarded as being shared worldwide.

How long do we keep it for

Your data will be retained by the University for as long as the journal remains in publication. After this time, your data will be securely deleted.

What are your rights?*

You can request access to the information we process about you at any time.  If at any point you believe that the information we process relating to you is incorrect, you can request to see this information and may in some instances request to have it restricted, corrected or erased.  You may also have the right to object to the processing of data and the right to data portability.  Where we have relied upon your consent to process your data, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please submit your request via the webform or contact dp@gla.ac.uk.

*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out. 

Complaints

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the University Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.  Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotectionofficer@glasgow.ac.uk

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/