Here is some more detail on the new journal I described recently.
Pitch ? A new journal facilitating discussion of open, sustainable learning opportunities
What?s the Pitch?
?Pitch? is a free, online, peer-reviewed journal focusing on facilitating discourse related to free and open access to learning opportunities for all. The goal of the journal is to provide a forum for discussion that will lead to better understandings of the problems and solutions associated with providing broadly available, freely available educational opportunity.
Submissions to the journal should concentrate on one or more of the following four key areas, and the difficulties and opportunities presented by reconsidering them in the context of broadly, freely available learning opportunity:
When writing about one or more of the core areas, it is critical to cast them in the context of providing and /or supporting free and open educational opportunities.
How do I Pitch in?
Although Pitch will provide a peer-reviewed publishing outlet for research and theoretical articles relating to open, sustainable learning opportunity, Pitch will not run like a traditional academic journal. Pitch specifically takes advantage of some affordances of the medium.
I've invited some individuals to fill "editorial" roles over the four main content areas. So far, the incomparable "Janette Hill":http://it.coe.uga.edu/~janette/ from UGA has accepted for pedagogy, "Erik Duval":http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~erikd/ has accepted for technology, and
"George Siemens":http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/ has accepted for morality. I'm still awaiting a final response.
So, since supporting infrastructure is still being developed (trans. there's plenty of time for formative feedback) what do you think?
