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Abstract
This issue of IRRODL marks a significant evolution in the development of your open access, peer-reviewed, international, online learning journal.Changes include new enhancements to our delivery model and some changes in the Journal's editorial personnel.However, rest assured that IRRODL remains committed to providing our distance education research community readers with a high quality, open access e-journal.This issue marks the first change in editorship of IRRODL since its founding four years ago by Peter Cookson.Although I have taken over as Editor and Publisher, I am happy that Peter will continue supporting IRRODL as a member of our editorial board.I want to thank Peter for his considerable contribution in setting the vision and policy that has defined IRRODL, and for successfully leading the editorial and administrative activities that have created what is likely the mostly widely read, peer reviewed, distance education journal in the world.This issue also marks the first in our new "continuous batch" publication model.Beginning this issue, IRRODL will be published when we have enough quality, peer reviewed main and research note articles, book reviews, and technical notes to compile an issue.This publication model allows for more issues, of reasonable size, to be published than the twice a year publication practice of the past.In addition, the new model will reduce the delay between submission, editing, and publication.Continuous batch production also allows us to retain the coherency of a complete issue, and yet also reduces an overabundant email "alerts" typical of publications that publish single articles as they are accepted.We anticipate publishing between three to five issues per year, but the exact number will depend on the number of quality submissions and our peer reviewers' availability and production capacity.We are also striving to increase the numbers of special issues, specifically those that focus on geographic regions (we expect to have an Australian special issue early next year) or on topical issues related to significant happenings in open and distance learning.New guidelines related to process for editing a special issue are available from the IRRODL website.Finally, although we continue to support full and open access to IRRODL, we now have paid subscribers to IRRODL.The reason why we have opted to solicit 'paid subscribers' is because the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has a program designed to support scholarly journals published in Canada.To be eligible to apply for this funding, however, IRRODL needs at least 200 'paid subscribers' per year.Our current 7050 unpaid subscribers were deemed insufficient to demonstrate community demand!Thanks to the 280 distance educators who feel strongly enough about the value of Open Access and this journal, to donate a $10.00 subscription fee, we met this arbitrary criteria for this year and have submitted our grant Terry Anderson~ Editorial Something Old -Something New Volume 5, No. 2, August 20042 application -though we are not at all certain how successful that application will be.The voluntary subscriptions also demonstrate our capacity to expand support for IRRODL beyond that generously provided by Athabasca University.However, we do not intend to compromise on policies or on practices that might restrict access to IRRODL.Indeed, we are very concerned that most other major distance education journals are now commercially published or published only in print format -thus restricting access to all and especially to those in developing countries.We do not intend to let this happen to IRRODL.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.330 | 0.248 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".