Focus and Scope

MAKSIMA: Jurnal Teknologi Pendidikan dan Pengajaran is a platform for the range of debates and issues in the field of Computing Education as well as the many uses of information and communication technology (ICT) across many educational subjects and sectors. It probes the use of computing to improve education and learning in a variety of settings, platforms, and environments.

The journal aims to maintain and expand its international standing by careful selection on the merit of the papers submitted, thus providing a credible ongoing forum for debate and scholarly discourse. Special Issues are occasionally published to cover particular issues in depth. MAKSIMA invites readers to submit papers that draw inferences, probe theory, and create new knowledge that informs practice, policy, and scholarship. Readers are also invited to comment and reflect upon the argument and opinions published.

Relevant topics for articles include:

  • Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) domain
  • ICT deployment in education: policy, integration, extensibility, interoperability
  • Pedagogical theories/models, constructivist approaches
  • Collaborative/context-aware/personalized approaches
  • Communities of learners
  • Web 2.0, semantic web
  • Adaptive/personalized hypermedia, metadata/content standards
  • Free/open-source software, ubiquitous/pervasive/grid technologies
  • Intelligent agents, learning management systems, emerging technologies
  • TEL practices in different educational/learning contexts
  • Surveys of TEL adoption in education
  • TEL tools/emerging technologies, new generation TEL
  • Government policies for TEL promotion
  • Challenges, future of TEL, roadmaps for the future
  • Learning theory,
  • Pedagogy, and learning design,
  • The electronically-enhanced classroom,
  • Computer-mediated communications of all kinds,
  • Computer-aided assessment,
  • Learning models/theories,
  • ICT deployment in education:

and such other topics as the Editors may deem appropriate. Articles need to make a significant contribution to the theoretical and /or methodological literature on the subject and contain a strong strategic management component.