[AISWorld] Call for Articles: Special Issue of Progressio, South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice

[Jan Kroeze]

*Call for Articles: Special Issue of Progressio, South African Journal for
Open and Distance Learning Practice*



*Correspondence should be addressed to:*

Special Issue Editors: Dr Bruce Nduna and Hentie Wilson

University of South Africa

P O Box 392

UNISA

0003

South Africa

Contact details: Dr Bruce Nduna - +27 11 471 2234   ndunabv at unisa.ac.za


This special issue of *Progressio, South African Journal for Open and
Distance Learning Practice* is dedicated to showcase, and engage with
innovative research in the teaching of the Natural Sciences, Engineering
and Technology in open, distance and e-learning (ODeL) environments. We
invite practitioners and researchers in the fields of ODeL and blended
learning contexts within in the scope of the Natural Sciences, Engineering
and Technology to submit articles for consideration. This special issue
will include articles from the following disciplinary backgrounds:

•          Agriculture, Environmental and Life Sciences

•          Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Statistics and Computing

•          Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial and Mining
Engineering



Many of the current opportunities and challenges facing international
higher education institutions impact directly on the teaching of the
Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology. The higher education sector
has to deal with changes in student profiles, funding regimes, a dramatic
increase in the privatisation and internationalisation of higher education,
and increasing demand for evidence of the effectiveness and appropriateness
of teaching and learning. There is also evidence of the “unbundling” of
higher education with curriculum development, course delivery, teaching,
student support, assessment and accreditation being designed and often
delivered by different providers. This fragmentation of different elements
of higher education is not necessarily negative, but it does change our
assumptions and beliefs about knowledge production and knowledge
dissemination, it questions the traditional roles of faculty, interrogates
intellectual property regimes and challenges organisational structures and
funding hierarchies.

Curriculum development and tuition in ODeL and blended learning contexts
also pose some very specific challenges such as students *and* teachers’
under-preparedness to find a ‘middle ground’ where threshold concepts in
the Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology can be effectively
explored taking into account students’ academic and personal backgrounds
and access to resources, epistemological and ontological differences,
departmental and institutional capacities, employer requirements and the
affordances of a variety of technologies.

The broad theme for this special issue of Progressio is therefore
*“Opportunities
and challenges in the teaching of the Natural Sciences, Engineering and
Technology in open, distance, e-learning and blended learning
environments.”*

Submitted articles can be conceptual or empirical, focus on general issues
in teaching and learning in the broad scope of the teaching of the Natural
Sciences, Engineering and Technology or focus on undergraduate or
postgraduate teaching.

*Progressio: South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning
Practice*is a fully accredited journal that provides an opportunity
for researchers
and practitioners in open, distance and e-learning to publish their
articles. As the name suggests, *Progressio’s* focus is on research on the
phenomenon and practice of open, distance and e-learning. All articles are
refereed by experts in the field of open, distance and e-learning. The
journal has an international editorial board comprising of scholars and
practitioners in open, distance and e-learning, and enjoys the support of
the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) and the National Association of Distance
Education Organisations of South Africa (NADEOSA).

Articles published in Progressio: South African Journal for Open and
Distance Learning Practice are indexed by Sabinet.

*IMPORTANT DATES*

*First call for articles*

*Monday 7 April 2014*

*Second call for articles*

*Tuesday 29 April 2014*

*Last call for articles*

*Monday 12 May 2014*

*Final date for submission of articles*

*Monday 30 June 2014*

*Reviews sent back to authors as well as selection of accepted articles*

*Monday 28 July 2014*

*Final date for accepted articles*

*5 September 2014*

*Publication date*

*15 November 2014*


NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors should submit a letter requesting review, confirming that their
article is original work, does not violate any contractual agreement and
has not been published or is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. A copyright agreement must also be signed and returned to the
journal editor.
Presentation

Authors should submit their contributions as an electronic file (MS Word
format). The full *title* of the article should be supplied on the *title
page*. The article should be *typed* in Times New Roman in 11-point font
size, in double-spacing (including all notes and references), on one side
of the paper only. The *length* of an article should be between *5 000* and *6
000* words. Do not attempt *layout*. All *notes* should be kept to a
minimum and appear at the end of the article before the *list of references*.
*Figures and tables* should not be embedded in the text, but be saved as
separate files at the end of each article with their position clearly
marked in the text. Indicate clearly in which format they were generated.
Please supply typed *captions including sources and acknowledgements*.

A structured *abstract* of 200 words in length, covering the main points
and statement of objective or problem, method, results and conclusions,
should accompany an article plus a list of at least six *keywords* for
abstracting and indexing services.

All articles will be critically blind-reviewed by at least * two* referees.

Please supply short biographical *details of each author* on the title
page, as well as the name, mailing address, telephone and facsimile
numbers, e-mail address, and affiliation and country of each corresponding
author at the time of the work.

*WHERE TO SEND ARTICLES      *

Dr Bruce Nduna - +27 11 471 2234   ndunabv at unisa.ac.za
REFERENCE STYLE

The *Chicago manual of style* *author–date system* is used, that is,
references are cited in the text by the author(s) name(s), the year of
publication and the page number(s) in brackets, for example, (Apollonia
1973, 370), as a key to the full list of all references that appears at the
end of the article. The *list of references* should include every work
cited in the text. Ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the text
are accurate and consistent with those listed in the references.

*Examples:*

*In text:*

(Chambers 1983, 110--112) *book*

(Schellinger, Hudson and Rijsberman 1998) *three-author book*

(Secher et al. 1996, 243) (Note: first write out in full followed by et
al.: *et al.* is not italicised) *multiple-author book*

(Michelangelo 1999, 122--134) *a translated book*

(UNDP 2003, 14) *organisation as author*

(Anon. 1547) *anonymous author*

(Garcia 1987, vol. 2) *book volume*

(Johnson 1979, sec. 24) *section*

(Wiens 1983, 357--359) *chapter in a multi-author book*

(Weber, Burlet and Abel 1928)* edition*

(Bhabha and Viswananthan 2002, 45) *journal*

(Wright 1968--1978, 2:241)* multivolume work*

(Barnes 1998, 2:244--255, 3:29) *journal volume number with page reference*

(Tulchin and Garland 2000) *series*

(H. J. Brody, pers. comm.) *personal communication*

(Kurland and Lerner 2000, chap. 9, doc. 3) *part of a document*

(Fischer and Siple 1990, 212n3) *note*

(Mampuru 2003, 14) *unpublished thesis*

(*Sowetan* July) *newspaper article.*



*In reference list:*

Anon. 1547. *Stanze in lode della donna brutta.* Florence.

Bhabha H. and G. Viswananthan. 2002. Border crossings in education. *Cultural
Critique* 35 (2):34--48.

Chambers, R. ed. 1983. *Rural development: Putting the last first*. London:
Longman.

Ezedu, H. 2001. Cross-cultural learning. In *Co-operation in African
Education*, ed. S. Dlamini, 134--138. Pretoria: UNISA Press.

Kurland, P. B. and L. Lerner, eds. 2000. The founder’s constitution.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ (accessed 2 April 2004).

Mampuru, E. 2003. A sociological study of children’s games. M.Ed. thesis.
Pretoria: University of South Africa.

Michelangelo, 1999. *The complete poems of Michelangelo*. Trans. J. F.
Nims. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Schellinger, P., C. Hudson and M. Rijsberman, eds. 1998. *Encyclopedia of
the novel*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Secher, J. A., S. M. Pfaffilin, F. L. Denmark, A. Griffen and S. J.
Blumenthal, eds. 1996. *Women and mental health*. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press.

Sturkin, M. 1997. *Tangled memories*. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University
of California Press.

Tulchin, J. S. and A. M. Garland, eds. 2000. *Social development in Latin
America: The politics of reform*. Woodrow Wilson Center Current Studies on
Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

UNDP *see* United Nations Development Programme.

United Nations Development Programme. 2003. *The economic cost of AIDS*.
Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.

Weber, M. H., M. de Burlet and O. Abel. 1928. *Die Saugetiere.* 2nd ed. 2
vols. Jena: Gustav Fischer.

Wiens, J. A. 1983. Avian ecology: An iconoclastic view. In *Perspectives in
ornithology*, ed. A. H. Brush and G. A. Clark Jr, 355–403. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Wright, S. 1968--1978. Evolution and the genetics of populations. 4 vols.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.





-- 
Groete / Sincerely
Jan H. Kroeze
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