Focus and Scope
The VARIDIKA Journal is an international electronic journal that aims to be a center for the dissemination of significant and innovative scholarly studies in the field of education that can be utilized by the research community both at the national and international levels. The journal welcomes research articles focusing on the following topics (but not limited):
1. Digital Technology in Education
Digital technology is essential in teaching and learning mathematics to understand the basic concept and the way of problem-solving technique, especially in the 21st century (NCTM, 2008). However, the application of digital technology in classroom activities is a challenge for education practitioners. For this reason, Jurnal Varidika has the intention to publish research related to the application of digital technology in the learning process such as the application of Social Media, Digital Games, Graphing Calculator, Virtual Reality (VR), Dynamic Mathematics Software, Augmented Reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), Android/IOS Based Application, or other technology devices and software.
2. Distance Education
Distance learning, also called distance education, e-learning, and online learning, form of education in which the main elements include physical separation of teachers and students during instruction and the use of various technologies to facilitate student-teacher and student-student communication (Simonson, 2021). The case of the Covid-19 Pandemic strengthens discussions related to this issue among researchers and practitioners in the field of education, especially on how to implement distance education effectively and efficiently. Therefore, the Jurnal Varidika focuses on publishing scholar studies that promote the application of distance learning models such as Blended Learning, Flipped Learning, Flip Flop Learning, Learning Management Systems, or any type of distance learning.
3. Character and Cultural Based Education
Character-based education focuses on building the foundational values that will shape the character of our students, rather than merely striving for temporal, performance driven results. It aims to help solve behavioral problems, as well as improve academic achievement by allowing positive values to influence a student's decision making process (Protos, 2014). While Culture-based education is an approach in which teaching and learning happen based on the values, norms, beliefs and practices that are the foundation of any culture (Chettinad, 2020). These two topics are important components of education that can determine the strength of a student's character and identity. So strengthening character and integrating culture in the learning process is important to always be discussed by both researchers and education practitioners. For this reason, the Jurnal Varidika focuses on publishing scholar studies related to character building in education, ethnomathematics, or any studies that strengthen students' character and integrating culture.
4. STEAM-Based Education
STEAM is an educational discipline that aims to spark an interest and lifelong love of the arts and sciences in children from an early age. Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math are similar fields of study in that they all involve creative processes and none uses just one method for inquiry and investigation (Lathan, 2021). In the 21st Century Education, STEAM Education is very important to be applied at various levels of education so that learning becomes more meaningful. However, the process and method of integrating STEAM in education is still an issue that is still often discussed for many practitioners and researchers in the field of education. Therefore, Jurnal Varidika focuses on publishing scholar studies related to the implementation of STEAM-based Education as an effort to improve the quality of education.
5. Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)-Based Education
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is a skill that involves three levels of cognitive abilities (based on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy), namely the ability to analyze, evaluate and create. In its application to the process of solving a problem, this skill also involves the ability to think critically which functions to parse all existing information and concepts, and use it in solving a complex problem. In the context of learning, HOTS-Based Education is important to be implemented, especially with the aim of improving students' critical thinking skills and the quality of learning that is more meaningful. However, there are still various issues related to the creation of HOTS-based questions and the application of HOTS-based instruction which are still a topic of discussion for researchers and education practitioners. Therefore, the Varidika Journal focuses on publishing scholar studies related to the application of HOTS-based learning in all learning subjects.
Section Policies
Articles
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Peer Review Process
All papers for publishing in Jurnal Varidika are fully peer-reviewed. We only publish articles that have been reviewed and approved by highly qualified researchers with expertise in a field appropriate for the article. We used a double-blind peer-reviewing process. Detailed information about the flow for the manuscript submission (author) to the acceptance by the editor is shown in the following figure.
The description of the review process flow is as follows:
- Authors submit the manuscript through an online journal system.
- The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) will check the feasibility of the topic for possible publication. The suitable manuscript will be submitted to the editors for further processing, whereas the unsuitable manuscript will be rejected.
- The Editor will check the completeness of the provisionally accepted manuscript based on the guideline for authors, adherence to the journal's template, adequacy of references, originality (check on potential plagiarism issues), and accuracy of language. The manuscript that meets the journal format and requirements will be forwarded to a minimum of two international reviewers under a double-blind process. The manuscript that did not meet the requirements will be sent back to the author(s) for revision. This process is estimated to take 1-2 weeks.
- The manuscript will be reviewed by at least two international experts. It takes within 4-8 weeks depending on the promptness of the reviewers in providing feedback.
- The EIC/Editors will notify the author that the manuscript may be published without revision, sent back to the author(s) to perform minor revisions or major revision, or may also be rejected based on reviewers' comments. For a minor revision, the author(s) are requested to submit the final version of the manuscript with the required changes. For a major revision, a final version of the manuscript will be resubmitted to the peer-reviewers for re-evaluation. In this case, the peer-review process begins anew (second round review). The EIC/Editors approve the manuscript for publication if no further changes are necessary.
- The accepted manuscript will be forwarded by Editors to the production division for editing, layout, and other requirements for publishing. The final version will be sent to the author(s) for proofreading. The manuscript will be published online as soon as no more changes needed and have been approved by the author.
Publication Frequency
Journal of Varidika: Varia Pendidikan is published twice a year, every June and December.
Every number contains approximately 6 articles.
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available to users or/institutions. Allowing open access to the journal's contents is based on the principle that making research results freely available to the public supports and enhances a global exchange of knowledge.
Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.
The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.
To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies.
I. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located in order to find and make use of their contents.
II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of the material they publish. Instead they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.
Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. They are not only direct and effective means to this end, they are within the reach of scholars themselves, immediately, and need not wait on changes brought about by markets or legislation. While we endorse the two strategies just outlined, we also encourage experimentation with further ways to make the transition from the present methods of dissemination to open access. Flexibility, experimentation, and adaptation to local circumstances are the best ways to assure that progress in diverse settings will be rapid, secure, and long-lived.
The Open Society Institute, the foundation network founded by philanthropist George Soros, is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal. It will use its resources and influence to extend and promote institutional self-archiving, to launch new open-access journals, and to help an open-access journal system become economically self-sustaining. While the Open Society Institute's commitment and resources are substantial, this initiative is very much in need of other organizations to lend their effort and resources.
We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.
February 14, 2002
Budapest, Hungary
Leslie Chan: Bioline International
Darius Cuplinskas: Director, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Michael Eisen: Public Library of Science
Fred Friend: Director Scholarly Communication, University College London
Yana Genova: Next Page Foundation
Jean-Claude Guédon: University of Montreal
Melissa Hagemann: Program Officer, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Stevan Harnad: Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Rick Johnson: Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Rima Kupryte: Open Society Institute
Manfredi La Manna: Electronic Society for Social Scientists
István Rév: Open Society Institute, Open Society Archives
Monika Segbert: eIFL Project consultant
Sidnei de Souza: Informatics Director at CRIA, Bioline International
Peter Suber: Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College & The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
Jan Velterop: Publisher, BioMed Central
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...