EDITOR’S EPILOGUE
his edition might just be our biggest yet,
with contributions internal, external, staff and
student, events, conferences and research all
making an appearance. Whilst as managing
editor I am very pleased with this growth in
diverse submissions to JADE, I do sometimes reflect on
why this might be the case and what I keep coming back
to is that good practice takes many forms. It`s easy to
see under the current HE system how for example, a
peer-reviewed educational research publication might be
a solid metric of a person’s scholarship but what about
the reflective pieces? What about the creative pieces?
What about gamification? I feel the main strength of
JADE is that it continually captures good practice in all
its forms, sharing these widely and as such, I thought it
was about time to share a mini-report of sorts with you to
let everyone know how JADE is being perceived beyond
Keele.
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Selfishly, with this information I`m hoping to convince
even more of our readers that they should be contributing
to JADE but also to bolster our regular contributors to
continue supporting us by giving us their work. Also, I
thought I would try my hand at some very simple learner
analytics to go with this edition.
So, to get us started…a little trivia for you…did you know
that JADE is currently being accessed in over 10 countries
right now? Not bad for a small journal, don`t you think?
JADE has been developing year on year since its first
edition in 2013 and you are currently reading our sixth
normal (“vanilla”) edition (but don`t forget our special
international edition earlier this year too). The graph
shown in the next page shows the increase in impact and
exposure over the last three years, with the Y axis being
number of visitors and the X axis showing each year in
turn. I like that it starts small but gets big quick and most
importantly….stays there.