Educational Technology and Distance Education Journals

I had problems identifying quality, peer-reviewed journals in educational technology and distance education, so I compiled a list of the journals that meet the “peer-reviewed” criteria. These journals focus on the broad field of educational technology and distance education, and not all were created equally. I tried to avoid including any discipline specific journals. Please note that I purposefully only included specific educational psychology journals that have a flair for educational technology. If you have any journals I should add to my list, please contact me.

I have updated my list to include the organization from which the journals supported and/or the publisher, whether or not the journals are Social Science Indexed (SSCI), and the rank of the journals according to a dissertation I found. The dissertation ranked the journals across four measures. I used the overall ranking:

Bray, K. E. (2003). Perceived value of journals for academic prestige, general reading and classroom use: A study of journals in educational and instructional technology, (Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas).

Journal SSCI Organization/Publisher Rank
Association of the Advancement of Computing in Education Journal AACE 20, 21, 22
Australian Journal of Educational Technology ASCILITE
British Journal of Educational Technology Yes BECTA
Canadian Journal of Teaching and Learning AMTEC
Cognition and Instruction Yes Taylor and Francis 2
Computers and Education Yes Elsevier
Computers in Education Journal ASEE
Computers in Human Behavior Yes Unavailable
Computers in the Schools Haworth 20, 21, 22
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education AACE 18, 19
Distance Education: An International Journal ODLAA 10
Education and Information Technologies IFPF/Springer
Educational Media International ICEM/Taylor Francis
Educational Technology Research and Development Yes AECT/Springer 1
e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology USQ
Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education ISU
Electronic Journal of E-Learning ACI
Human-Computer Interaction Lawrence Erlbaum 14
Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdisipline ISI
Innovate: Journal of Online Education NSU
Instructional Science Yes Springer
Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects ISI
International Journal of Instructional Media ADPRIMA
International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning DonEl Learning Inc
International Journal on E-Learning Elsevier
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Unavailable
Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Sloan
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Yes Blackwell
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Blackwell
Journal of Computing in Higher Education NERCP/Norriss 12, 13
Journal of Computing in Teacher Education AACE 11
Journal of Computing in Teacher Education ITSA 7
Journal of Distance Education CADE
Journal of Education Technology Systems SALT 24
Journal of Educational Computing Research Baywood 5
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia AACE 12, 13
Journal of Educational Technology and Society Yes ITI
Journal of Educators Online Unavailable
Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems SALT 20, 21, 22
Journal of Interactive Instruction Development SALT
Journal of Interactive Learning Research AACE 23
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Open University
Journal of Interactive Online Learning VCOLR
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Merlot
Journal of Research on Technology in Education ITSE 4
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education AACE
Journal of Technology Education Virginia Tech
Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment Unavailable
Learning Technology: IEEE Computer Society IEEE
Learning, Media and Technology Taylor and Francis
Memory and Cognition Yes Psychonomic Society 9
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration UWG
Performance Improvement Journal ISPI
Performance Improvement Quarterly ISPI
Quarterly Review of Distance Education AECT 6
TechTrends AECT/Springer 18,19
The American Journal of Distance Education Unavailable 8
Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education Unavailable

Technology-Related Disciplines: Education Journals

These journals focus on educational problems related to the fields of information systems, computer science, and information technology. These journals focus on the application of technology in technology-related education.

  1. Computer Science Education
  2. Decision Sciences and Innovative Education Journal
  3. Information Systems Education Journal
  4. Journal of Computing in Small Colleges
  5. Journal on Educational Resources in Computing
  6. Journal of Informantic Education Research
  7. Journal of Information Systems Education
  8. Journal of Information Technology Education