Until recently, few educators received scholarly recognition for developing innovative teaching resources. HEAL is proud to spearhead a process to provide academic recognition for digital scholarship. Now educators can submit teaching resources to HEAL for peer review.

HEAL employs a rigorous review process. Two reviewers who are content experts and/or experienced users of instructional technology systematically examine the quality and usefulness of the submitted resource. Review criteria include:

• Preparation and content quality
• Effectiveness of the material
• Presentation and ease of use
• Significance

Following standard academic practice, resources are either rejected, accepted conditionally, or accepted as-is. Reviewers can also accept outstanding resources "with acclamation."

Upon acceptance, resources are permanently published in the HEAL Reviewed Collection. Authors receive a certificate of publication describing the resource, the review process, and date of acceptance. Authors can choose to add these certificates to their faculty dossiers so that Promotion and Tenure Committees can appraise the quality of digital scholarship, for which they rarely received academic credit in the past.

How to get involved

• Resources can be submitted for peer review using the online Submissions Form (login required). You may wish first to review the instructions for authors.

More information

• Contact Sebastian Uijtdehaage, PhD (Editor) at submit@healcentral.org.