Publication Terms

• The journal receives original research that has not been published or submitted for publication before. The researcher submitting the paper is responsible for ensuring that the publication of the research is approved by all other researchers, if any. It is also the responsibility of researchers to ensure that the institution approves the research produced by that institution.
• The journal also welcomes the publication of translations and abstracts of university theses; reports of conferences, symposiums, seminars; and research of recent books in the field of Distance education, e-learning, blended learning and educational technology.
• Authors present an electronic version of the research as a single Microsoft Word file via the journal’s website Authors will need to anonymize their manuscript before submission by not mentioning author name or any proof of his/her identity in the document.
• Please note that individual form files above 10MB should be uploaded separately.
• Tables and figures with captions should be presented within the main text of the manuscript in a single Microsoft Word file.
• Please also make sure that numbers and tables in the individual file are placed next to relevant text in the manuscript, not at the bottom of the file or top of it.

Language

The journal welcomes the publication of original scientific researches and studies, in either Arabic or English and foreign languages. However, It is required that these researches and scientific studies to be accompanied by two abstracts, one in Arabic and the other one in English. It may be required from researchers who feel that their English abstract requires linguistic scrutiny to avoid any potential grammatical or spelling errors to use any English editing service.

• Plagiarisms and Scientific thefts

Plagiarism and scientific thefts are universally recognized as an extremely serious academic offense. It is the duty of the editorial board to assist and support the referees by ensuring in all aspects of publishing ethics that the paper submitted for publication is free from plagiarism.

Publishing Policies

• The research must include the information in ‎the following order in the research sections:‎

‎1.‎      Title in  English.
‎2.‎      Researcher’s name in English.‎
‎3.‎      The abstract in English and foreign languages‎
‎4.‎      Key words in English (five ‎keywords).‎
‎5.‎      Methodological introduction, findings and ‎discussions, references, figures, tables, and ‎appendices.‎

•        Registration on the title page include: the ‎research title in the middle, the name of the ‎researcher(s), followed by the of the ‎institution in which he/she (they) works, and ‎his/her (their) e-mail.‎
•        The abstract should be free of citations, ‎abbreviations, and references, and should not ‎exceed 200 words. It should clearly indicate ‎the research objectives, methodology, and ‎most important results.‎
•        Keywords mean the main terms mentioned in ‎the body of the research or the sub-sections ‎that were covered.‎
•        It has to be taken into account that the ‎introduction should provide adequate ‎background on the study and explain the ‎approach followed, data collection tools, ‎study procedures, statistical analyzes used, if ‎any, and previous studies.‎
•        After the methodological introduction, results ‎reached by the researcher are presented, then, ‎a discussion of these results and a discussion ‎of the validity of the study’s hypotheses and ‎the extent to which the results are related to ‎the published studies that dealt with the same ‎topic.‎

Table Settings

• Tables and figures are placed in the body of the research. Each of them should be on a separate page with the table number and title above, and the figure number and title below.
• It has to be taken into account not to put large tables, illustrations and large maps in the body of the research, but rather put them at the end so that the reviewers can control their size according to the size of the journal.

Numbers Settings

When submitting a research, researchers are supposed to include all research’s figures and tables in a Word file. Figures and tables should not be sent in separate files. All numbers on the paper must be listed in continuous order.

Fonts

• Trim size: B5 (JIS) 25.7 cm × 18.2 cm
• Font Type: Simplified Arabic
• Margins: 2 cm
• Line Spacing: Multiple: 1.3

References

• References are documented according to the American Psychological Association (APA) system, whether they are Arabic or English.
• The Body of the Research

Citations in the body of the paper should follow the reference method used by APA.

• Reference List
• References should be arranged first alphabetically and then, if necessary, chronologically. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be specified with the letters A, B, C, …etc. placed after the year of publication.
• It is preferable to use citation management programs that supports citation style such as Endnote, Mendeley, and Zotero.
• Endnote or Mendeley users can easily install the reference style of this journal by clicking on the following link:

Endnote

https://access.clarivate.com/login?app=endnote

Mendeley

https://open.mendeley.com/use-citation-style/social-science-research

• When setting up your research, you will then be able to select this style using Mendeley, Microsoft Word or LibreOffice.

Refereeing and Publication Fees

• Egyptian researchers inside Egypt

Refereeing

800 pounds for two referees.

If a third referee is needed, 400 more pounds are added as refereeing fees.

Publication

1000 pounds for the first 20 pages of the size B5 (JIS) with the specifications of the journal.

40 pounds are added for each additional page.

• Non-Egyptian Researchers

Refereeing

100 $  for two referees.

If a third referee is needed, 50 more dollars are added as refereeing fees.

Publication

200 $ for the first 25 pages of the size B5 (JIS) with the specifications of the journal.

10 $ are added for each additional page.

 

Copyright policy
Authors retain copyright and transfer the commercial rights only to The Journal of Distance Learning and Open Learning( jdlol) . All published articles are licensed under CC-BY-NC Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Authors can use a copy of his article in his research activities, own websites, institutional and/or funder’s web sites by providing full citation to version published in The Journal of Distance Learning and Open Learning( jdlol) . Authors have the right to transmit, print and share the first submitted copies with colleagues, professional positions, and career with citing to The Journal of Distance Learning and Open Learning( jdlol) publication.

Readers:

You are free to:

• Share  — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, andindicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. 

 

License

All content of The Journal of Distance Learning and Open Learning ( jdlol) are published under the open license CC BY-NC (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International) which grants immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.