The Need for Recipes
As an online journal, Journal of Interaction Recipes serves as a bridge between the academic and practical worlds, with information of interest to educators, non-profit project managers, designers, students, policymakers, and anyone else who is seeking concrete solutions to the challenges posed by using technology to disseminate information.
IDEA strongly believes in the principle of open access journals. By offering Journal of Interaction Recipes free of charge to anyone with an Internet connection, we hope that people working in a variety of fields will be able to find practical solutions to common problems and find a forum to share their own "recipes" for successfully overcoming obstacles while furthering dynamic education.
The Range of Articles
Journal of Interaction Recipes is not intended to be a scholarly journal, a journal of case studies, or a textbook. Instead, this journal of recipes has a straightforward Problem-Solution-Discussion format that presumes that readers are experts in their own fields and simply need practical advice for specific problems. This isn’t to say that Journal of Interaction Recipes doesn’t discuss issues in depth; rather, it isn’t necessary to read the entire journal to find a concrete solution to the problem at hand.
The solutions discussed in Journal of Interaction Recipes aren’t the only possible answers to the problems posed. Indeed, just as you might adjust the ingredients in a cookbook recipe to suit your taste, the solutions offered in Journal of Interaction Recipes are meant to be adapted to your individual circumstances. At the same time, we hope that finding your secret ingredients will be an enjoyable journey, rather than a cumbersome chore.
The Articles’ Origins
The first volume of Journal of Interaction Recipes grew organically out of the IDEA team’s curiosity about and research into the ways people learn and the promising role of technology in enhancing and enriching the education. Our own experience taught us that technology can help overcome the barriers that many educational projects face in disseminating information, but that it can also create new challenges. We attempted to codify the most common problems, offer solutions, and discuss the rationale for the answers we had developed.
The second volume of Journal of Interaction Recipes was written by invited contributors who shared valuable insights into effective project management. Our third and subsequent volumes will be comprised of submissions from readers who have developed their own Journal of Interaction Recipes.
