Distance Education is the journal of ODLAA Inc. It is edited by Associate Professor Som Naidu and published by Taylor & Francis. The journal is managed by a sub-committee of the ODLAA Executive and ODLAA members receive it as a part of their membership.

Distance Education is a peer-reviewed journal. It publishes research and scholarly material in the fields of distance, open and flexible education. It was one of the first journals published to focus exclusively on this area of educational practice, and it remains a primary source of original and scholarly work in the field for practitioners, teachers and students.

Submissions for publication

Distance Education is published in May, August and November of each year. Submissions for publication in the journal are considered throughout the year. For author guidelines see Taylor & Francis.

Subscriptions

Individual subscriptions to Distance Education are available online. For institutional subscriptions contact the publisher:

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Access

Electronic copies of papers from volume 23 are available for those who have purchased an individual or organisational subscription to the journal, outside of their ODLAA membership.

Executive editor

Som Naidu, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia

Deputy editor

Alistair Inglis, Curtin University, Sarawak, Malaysia

Editorial assistant

Antonina Petrolito, Melbourne, Australia

Founding executive editors

Ian McD. Mitchell and Desmond J. Keegan

Editorial board

Roger Azevedo – McGill University, Canada
Jon Baggaley – Athabasca University, Canada
Tony Bates – Tony Bates Associates Ltd, Canada
Zane Berge – University of Maryland, USA
Bob Bernard – Concordia University, Canada
Ulrich Bernath – Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenberg, Germany
Niki Davis – University of Cantebury, New Zealand
Barney Delgarno – Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia 
Aaron H. Doering – University of Minnesota, USA
Terry Evans – Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Anne Gaskell – Open University in the East of England, Cambridge, UK
Peter Goodyear – University of Sydney, Australia
Wallace Hannum – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Barry Harper – University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
John Hedberg – Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia
Jan Herrington – Murdoch University, West Australia, Australia
Thomas Huelsmann – Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenberg, Germany
Olugbemiro Jegede – African Association of Universities, Ghana
Kemi Jona – Northwestern University, USA
Insung Jung – International Christian University, Japan
Mike Keppell – Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia
Colin Latchem – Perth, Western Australia
Fred Lockwood – Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Mary Jane Mahony – University of Sydney, Australia
Don Olcott, Jr – United States Distance Learning Association
Ron Oliver – Edith Cowan University, West Australia, Australia
Rod Sims – Cappella University, USA
Peter Smith – Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Michael Spector – University of Georgia, USA
Elizabeth Stacey – Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Olaf Zawacki-Richter – Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany