Publisher: DeGruyter Brill
Expected Publication Year: 2026
Submission Guidelines
Proposal Length: 400-500 words (not including references)
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2025
Author Bios: 100 words per author
The editors invite contributions to an innovative edited volume addressing a critical yet under-explored dimension of online education: time-efficiency in practice in online education.
Online instructors face a persistent dilemma: promising pedagogical strategies and recommended practices often demand time investments that prove unsustainable in the long term. Well-intentioned techniques may sound compelling in theory but fail when instructors – whether tenured faculty, clinical educators, or adjunct lecturers – cannot efficiently implement them within workload-based time constraints.
This volume tackles the practical reality that even excellent strategies are often abandoned. This may be due to learning curves that are too steep, leading instructors to drop a new technique before attaining proficiency and realizing returns on invested time, or because a strategy’s ongoing demands are too burdensome. Inefficiencies affect more than individual courses; they contribute to instructor burnout and limit the time available for research, peer review, writing, and other essential academic pursuits.
Time-Efficient Practice will provide evidence-based guidance for making informed decisions about instructional investments. We seek chapters that balance pedagogical effectiveness with practical sustainability, helping educators choose strategies they can maintain long-term without sacrificing instructional quality, rigor, or personal and student well-being.
The target audience for this volume includes current instructors engaged in online teaching; instructional designers who work with faculty developing online courses; staff in centers for teaching excellence; students in teacher education programs likely to engage in online teaching; administrators, mentors, or senior faculty in a position to suggest instructional techniques or strategies; and researchers developing new techniques or strategies who have not previously considered required time investment as a necessary analysis point.
Important Dates
- June 2025: Call for Chapters
- September 15, 2025: Chapter Proposals due
- October 15, 2025: Chapter authors notified of proposal acceptance (or not) with feedback
- January 15, 2026: Chapters due from authors to editors
- January 30, 2026: Editors submit preliminary chapters to Brill, and Peer Review is organized
- March 1, 2026: Peer reviewers complete and submit feedback
- April 15, 2026: After peer review, authors revise and submit revised chapters to editors in Brill format
- May 2026: Revisions delivered to Brill
- Summer or Fall 2026: Brill publication date
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