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= Asian Journal of Distance Education = Asian Journal of Distance Education (AJDE) is a double blind reviewed open access journal. The journal aims to disseminate scholarly works and information useful to researchers and practitioners in the growing field of distance education. The journal is founded in 2003 and being listed by many indexes including ERIC. The journal is currently being published twice a year, in July and December. As an open access journal, AJDE adopts CC-BY-SA licence and does not request article processing charge from the authors.

Aim and Scope
The main purpose of the Asian Journal of Distance Education is to disseminate scholarly works and information useful to researchers and practitioners in the growing field of distance education in Asia and all around the world. The Journal also aims to provide a forum for discussions within and directly relating to Asia, and so elicits Asian local theoretical and practical solutions to local concerns. Contributions are invited from around the world which meet these criteria of relevance to the Asian context or distance education.

Editorial Team
Ramesh C Sharma and Aras Bozkurt are the lead editors of AJDE. AJDE is supported by highly respected leading researchers in distance education. Editoral Advisory Board is composed by a large number of scholar across the globe with an intention to bring diverce voices.

Open Access Policy
This journal provides open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. In this regard, the following principles are adapted by the journal.


 * The journal allows author(s) to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights without restriction.
 * The work published in AjDE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY-SA).
 * The journal does not require article processing charge (APC) from authors or readers at any time.

Review Process
There are two stages of the review process:


 * 1) The first stage is an initial editorial review (also known as Desktop Review, Screening Review) by one of the lead editors, resulting in either a decision to send for peer review (stage 2) or an editorial rejection.
 * 2) In the second stage, a Lead Editor or an Associate Editor will be assigned to manage the review process.

All article manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by a minimum of two experts in the field. This means that neither the authors nor the reviewers are made aware of the identities of each other. It is, therefore, essential that authors remove all identifying information from their papers in the first instance. This includes removing references in the text that would enable reviewers to identify authors. Names, institutional affiliations and references can be added if the paper is accepted for publication.

Featured External Sources
Journal lists that feature AJDE:


 * Directory of Open Access Journals
 * Distance Education Journals
 * IRRODL Open Access Journals
 * Open Access Journals in Educational Technology

Articles that feature AJDE:


 * Eleven Years (1999–2009) of The Malaysian Journal of Distance Education: A Bibliometric Study
 * The geography of distance education-bibliographic characteristics of a journal network
 * The Growing Impact of Open Access Distance Education Journals: A Bibliometric Analysis