Guide for Authors
Who Can Submit
All instructors and instructional designers across higher education institutions are invited to submit their successful strategy to TOPR.
What to Submit
The goal of this repository is to have an open collection of practical teaching strategies for online and blended teachers in higher education. Each entry offers a tight focus on a practical strategy that has been actually carried out in an online or blended setting, complete with a description, artifacts, and reflection.
When to Submit
While submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, there will be 1-2 calls for submissions each year. Submissions will be reviewed and published in relation to the timeline of the calls for submissions.
How to Submit
Before submitting, visit the Author Corner to review the submission guidelines.
Use of AI
If AI was used in any way to craft the submission, briefly note this in the Acknowledgements section within the entry. Include the name of the AI tool(s) used, why it was used, and how it was used.
Accessibility
Content, including artifacts, must be made accessible to all readers before it is published in TOPR. Source documents: When creating a Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet improve accessibility with the built-in accessibility checker for the source software and keep the accessibility panel open to promptly recognize issues as you create the file. PDFs: To create an accessible PDF, it is crucial to begin with an accessible source document and use Adobe Acrobat Pro to create and verify PDF accessibility. Videos: Videos must have captions where text is shown in real time on the screen and is synchronized with audio content. Audio: Audio files must have an accompanying transcript that contains the text version of speech and non-speech content in the audio content. Images: Alternative text that is accurate, equivalent, and succinct must be provided to convey the meaning of an image.
Removal
An entry may be updated or removed from public view by sending a request to the editors at topr@ucf.edu.
Rights and Permissions
Before submitting an entry to the repository, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared. You retain the copyright to your entry and grant us the nonexclusive right to publish this material, meaning that you may also publish it elsewhere. Submitting this entry indicates that you agree to share your content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
Peer Reviews and Editorial Decisions
All submissions will undergo a peer-reviewed process. The TOPR Editorial Board has final authority on all submissions that are accepted, rejected, and/or revised. Authors cannot review their own submissions. If reviewers use AI for the review process, they should declare this upon submitting their feedback. However, reviewers should preserve the confidentiality of the peer review process by not putting unpublished submissions that they are reviewing (or information about them) into publicly available AI tools.