EDITORIAL Aspects of openness in education

education and technology, which are the focus of our journal, provide us with an ever-changing environment for innovations, lessons learnt and prospective ideas for future exploration and development. As a result, we have a continuous flow of sub-missions for our reviewers to consider. To ensure submissions are reviewed as quickly as possible, we encourage authors to refer to the detailed guidelines on the journal’s website before sending in their work. It is extremely gratifying to see the commitment to quality shown by our reviewers. This is a pro bono task that takes concentration and time, whilst also being rewarding and stimulating to see emerging works from scholars around the world. Excellent review processes serve to make the journal Research in Learning Technology con-tinuously well subscribed and well reputed. Specific download data are available, just click through to the article of your choice and see the article metrics at the first screen. The collection of articles in this issue includes research, scholarly works and longitudinal studies that continue the theme of openness that was recently eviden