Came to find out about the journal through my Google Scholar alerts which brought up the article on digital pedagogy and safety in the Australian construction industry.
The journal's page has video interviews from the editors of the journal, Michael Peters, Jayne White and Tina Besley - all from University of Waikato. Michael Peters has a further website on the philosophy of education and published two books I will need to follow up - See to Play - to role of visual literacies in sports and Showing and Doing.
The videos cover a
range of interesting viewpoints on the increasing ubiquity of digital culture
and the challenges to education and research. These include moving from a
pedagogy of one to many to a culture of many to many – a co-constructive
ecology with peer to peer ‘informal’ and mobile participants. Research changes
due to access to a range of data, not possible before, exampled by big data and
learning analytics.
Examples of visual
pedagogies include pedagogies sensitive to diverse cultures and multimodal
media. Visual literacies are perhaps not well-developed and only recent
developments.
Articles have video
content hyperlinked in. Most of the article has a traditional format with video
content and ‘discussion’. In the future, video from artist, performers, film
makers etc. will also be disseminated through the journal. The interest areas
include teaching demonstrations, performances (esp. from indigenous research),
interviews etc. Encouraged submissions from a wide range of discipline areas
within and outside academia.
Peer review is
double-blind review through Springer’s ScholarOne journal submission platform.
Good on Springer for
supporting a new approach.
