%0 Journal Article
%T Introducing Educate~ online
%A Geoff Whitty
%J Educate~
%D 2006
%I University of London
%X In 2001, the first issue of a new journal was published that focused on disseminating the work of postgraduate researchers at the Institute of Education. This new journal was called: Educate ~ The London Journal of Doctoral Research in Education. It offered a new opportunity to the community of postgraduate researchers, whether full-time and part-time, home or international, undertaking professional doctorates or MPhil/PhD research, to publish and disseminate their research. Educate~ offers a publication outlet for this sizable and diverse group of doctoral researchers, enabling the publication of work-in-progress as well as fully-fledged papers. It also offers a starting point for conversations between the Institute¡¯s postgraduate researchers and its established academic staff, allowing each to learn from the other, thereby developing the Institute¡¯s research community. These conversations have continued to develop with the biannual Doctoral School conferences, now a well-established feature here at the Institute. Indeed, the abstracts for the Summer Conference are included in this issue of Educate~. The inaugural Editorial, back in 2001, stated that ¡°our success will depend on the continuing willingness of potential contributors to provide us with interesting, thought provoking and engaging material¡± and I encourage readers to look back through the online archives to see how successful Educate~ has been. The development of software to enable academic journals to appear online and, importantly, to manage the entire editorial process electronically, presented an opportunity for Educate~ that could not be missed. Educate~ has now successfully moved to an online format. Doing so allows Educate~ to integrate photographic materials, audio files and audiovisual files and even podcasts - like this one, into what it publishes. Indeed, Educate~ does not just contain abstracts from this year¡¯s Summer Conference, but also podcasts of a number of the presentations that will be streamed during the conference. Eduacate~¡¯s electronic presence also allows users of the site to post comments on the published work and for the authors to respond, making the journal a focus of the research community in the Institute. In that first Educate~ editorial, the Editorial Board expressed a hope that ¡°in time, [it would] include doctoral students and established academics who are not necessarily based here at the Institute¡±. That vision has now been realised through Educate~¡¯s move online, involving a name change that drops ¡®London¡¯ from its title, so that it is now simply: Educate
%U http://www.educatejournal.org/index.php?journal=educate&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=94