Important Dates
| Item | Due Date |
| Chapter proposals are due | March 15, 2023 |
| Chapter authors are notified of proposal acceptance (or not) with feedback | April 15, 2023 |
| Chapters due from authors to editors. Submit your chapter to this folder. If you emailed it already to your editor that’s fine. No need to submit it again. | July 1, 2023 |
| Editors send chapters to peer reviewers. | July 15, 2023 |
| Peer reviewers complete and submit feedback into this folder. Feedback for chapter authors. | August 15, 2023 |
| After peer review, authors revise their chapter and submit revised chapters in Brill format to editors using this folder. | September 25, 2023 |
| Complete handbook due to Brill. | November 1, 2023 |
| Brill publication date. | Spring 2024 |
Instructions for authors writing original chapters
- Download and complete this Consent to Publish form and complete it. Upload the completed form to this Dropbox folder by May 21st. Each author and co-author should submit a Consent to Publish form.
- Write your chapter. Use this Brill-Sense Style Template (a Word doc) which includes all the styles and formatting required for the handbook.
- Your chapter should be 4000 to 7000 words, not counting references. The abstract should be 150 to 250 words. Here is a Sample chapter in Brill format (PDF). Here is the Brill Author’s Guide (a lengthy PDF). This is a comprehensive guide about Brill’s publishing procedures.
- View this draft version of our Table of Contents for the Handbook. You should see your chapter title there, along with your assigned editor’s last name.
- Work with your assigned Editor to get feedback on your work. Your Editor will assist in getting peer review feedback as well. Submit your chapter to your editor (for peer review) by the deadline in the table above. Submit your initial chapter to this folder.
- The editor(s) will email you peer review(s) of your chapter as we receive them.
- Revise your chapter based on tbe peer reviews and advice from your assigned editor, and submit your revised chapter to this folder.
Instructions for authors submitting previously published works
- Download and complete this Consent to Publish form and complete it. Upload the completed form to this Dropbox folder by May 21st. Each author and co-author should submit a Consent to Publish form.
- Complete this Publication permission request form. (yes, an additional, different form). This form from Brill is for authors of previous published articles. The author must secure permission for their works to be published in our Handbook. Upload the completed form to this Dropbox folder as soon as possible.
- View this draft version of our Table of Contents for the Handbook. You should see your chapter title there, along with your assigned editor’s last name.
- Format your article using this Brill-Sense Style Template (a Word doc) which includes all the styles and formatting required for the handbook. Here is a Sample chapter in Brill format (PDF). Here is the Brill Author’s Guide (a lengthy PDF). This is a comprehensive guide about Brill’s publishing procedures.
- Work with your assigned Editor to get any feedback on your previously published article.
- Submit your revised article to this folder.
Instructions for Peer Reviewers
The deadline for submitting your peer review feedback is August 15th, 2023.
- Evaluate the chapter’s contribution to the field of online learning research, considering its significance.
- Evaluate the overall writing style, language, and readability of the chapter.
- Identify areas for improvement or suggestions for further development of the chapter’s content, methodology, or theoretical framework.
- Provide constructive feedback to the chapter author, offering specific recommendations for enhancement. Consider giving specific feedback or adding comments via “Track Changes” in Microsoft Word. This is often very useful for the author. Note these instructions on how to make your notes in Word anonymous (so the notes don’t have your name attached to each one).
- Complete the Peer Review Form.
- Submit the revised chapter and the peer review form into this folder.
Editors
Trey Martindale, EdD
Professor and Chief Online Learning Officer
Middle Tennessee State University
treymartindale@gmail.com
Tonya B. Amankwatia, PhD
Assistant Vice Provost, Distance Education and Extended Learning
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
tonya.lehigh@gmail.com
Lauren D. Cifuentes, PhD
Professor, New Mexico State University
laurenci@nmsu.edu
Anthony A. Piña, EdD
Chief Online Learning Officer
Illinois State University
aapina@ilstu.edu