Journal of Interactive Journal of Interactive Media in Education Media in Education

An Interactive JournalAn Interactive Journalfor Interactive Mediafor Interactive Media

www-jime.open.ac.ukwww-jime.open.ac.uk

jime@open.ac.ukjime@open.ac.uk

Conventional e-journalsConventional e-journals

• main focus on automating main focus on automating traditional products of print traditional products of print publications…publications…– electronic distribution (PDF)electronic distribution (PDF)– maybe HTMLmaybe HTML– ... little innovation in the process, ... little innovation in the process,

or the products or the products

• few offer commentary on published few offer commentary on published work, even fewer with interactive, work, even fewer with interactive, open peer reviewingopen peer reviewing

• a few offer downloadable demosa few offer downloadable demos

• authors encouraged to back claims authors encouraged to back claims about interactivity with demonstrations about interactivity with demonstrations for readers to tryfor readers to try

• articles tightly integrated with reviews articles tightly integrated with reviews in a web interface (discussion not in a in a web interface (discussion not in a separate listserver)separate listserver)

• debating of submissions between debating of submissions between authors, reviewers and the research authors, reviewers and the research community at largecommunity at large

• seeking to embed multimedia inline on seeking to embed multimedia inline on the Web (and streamline the process) the Web (and streamline the process) for richer presentations of data and for richer presentations of data and interactive materialsinteractive materials

Co-evolving technology Co-evolving technology with policy and practiseswith policy and practises

Open peer review processOpen peer review process

Article under review

Peer review commentary

and discussion

JIME document user interface

Interactive demonstration of a CD-ROM

Readers can ‘play’ with the

construction of a painting, as

students were encouraged to do

Interactive demonstration (Java applet)

Readers can visualize the

execution of a program using the Java applet

tested with students

Audio-visual slide presentation

The author introduces the

multimedia system with a

series of slides and commentary

(streaming audio)

Video data

The authors include video clips showing

their work (children

programming a robot)

DD33E: Digital DocumentE: Digital Document

• Enables the rapid publication of Enables the rapid publication of link-intensive document-discussion link-intensive document-discussion sitessites

• Research goal: to explore new Research goal: to explore new forms of scholarly publishing and forms of scholarly publishing and discourse discourse

• Planning to release on an open Planning to release on an open source basis to educational and source basis to educational and non-commercial institutionsnon-commercial institutions

d3e.open.ac.uk

Discourse EnvironmentDiscourse Environment

D3E Publisher’s ToolkitD3E Publisher’s Toolkit (Publisher’s Tab)(Publisher’s Tab)

D3E Publisher’s ToolkitD3E Publisher’s Toolkit (Article (Article Tab)Tab)

Further ReadingFurther Reading

• Buckingham Shum, S., & Sumner, T. (In Buckingham Shum, S., & Sumner, T. (In Press). JIME: An Interactive Journal for Press). JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media. In R. Peek (Ed.), Interactive Media. In R. Peek (Ed.), Scholarly Publishing: From Frontier to Scholarly Publishing: From Frontier to FrameworksFrameworks. Boston: MIT Press.. Boston: MIT Press.

• Sumner, T., & Buckingham Shum, S. Sumner, T., & Buckingham Shum, S. (1998). From Documents to Discourse: (1998). From Documents to Discourse: Shifting Conceptions of Scholarly Shifting Conceptions of Scholarly Publishing. Publishing. Proc. CHI 98: Human Factors in Proc. CHI 98: Human Factors in Computing SystemsComputing Systems, (Los Angeles, CA), 95-, (Los Angeles, CA), 95-102. ACM Press: NY. 102. ACM Press: NY. D3E version: <d3e.open.ac.uk/general/d3e-chi98>D3E version: <d3e.open.ac.uk/general/d3e-chi98>

Journal of Interactive Journal of Interactive Media in Education Media in Education

An Interactive JournalAn Interactive Journalfor Interactive Mediafor Interactive Media

www-jime.open.ac.ukwww-jime.open.ac.uk

jime@open.ac.ukjime@open.ac.uk