Closed RobinHankin closed 12 months ago
hi there 👋 Apologies that your scope-query got buried. If I understand the project, you have scripts to generate LaTeX-rendered tables of mathematical functions. I'm not sure this fits the JOSE scope. As you can read there, JOSE focuses on "computationally enabled teaching and learning." You'd have to make the case how your project aligns with that.
hello Lorena, thanks for this. I must admit that "computationally enabled teaching and learning" as it stands does exclude assessment. I would say that the production of hard-copy tables for use in written examinations [rather than photocopying tables from the back of a book, as many people do] should count as computationally-created educational resources.
But quite apart from that, I would argue that hardcopy log tables do have considerable intrinsic merit as a day-to-day educational resource:
There does not seem to be any open-source version of log tables available, surely an omission of interest to JOSE. From a research perspective, it turns out that there are non-trivial mathematical details in the creation of such tables and these are set out in exhaustive detail in the repo.
Have I made a more convincing case?
hello professor, can I enquire after my JOSE scope request about the possibility of discussing the use of log tables in education please? I made a justification for the alignment of such a work back in March.
Can you advise?
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hi there 👋 Apologies that your scope-query got buried. If I understand the project, you have scripts to generate LaTeX-rendered tables of mathematical functions. I'm not sure this fits the JOSE scope https://openjournals.readthedocs.io/en/jose/reviewer_guidelines.html#jose-aim-and-scope. As you can read there, JOSE focuses on "computationally enabled teaching and learning." You'd have to make the case how your project aligns with that.
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hello again, sorry to nag, and also I am not sure if I am asking in the right place (or indeed in the right way), but can you update me on my log tables suggestion for JOSE please?
Hi, and apologies for not replying to the previous comments. We discussed your enquiry with the members of the editorial board, and the consensus was that this work would not fit within the scope of JOSE. Thank you for your interest, but we are not able to accommodate the diversity of work that people contribute in the open. The editors limit the journal's scope with our best intentions to serve a subset of the open education community.
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Hi, and apologies for not replying to the previous comments. We discussed your enquiry with the members of the editorial board, and the consensus was that this work would not fit within the scope of JOSE. Thank you for your interest, but we are not able to accommodate the diversity of work that people contribute in the open. The editors limit the journal's scope with our best intentions to serve a subset of the open education community.
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Hi there, I have written a suite of software for creating high-quality mathematical tables (logs, antilogs, and various statistical functions) released on an open-source license. We use them for examinations (in preference to photocopying them from a book). Would this be of interest to JOSE?