I went back to my desk in the graduate students' office and prepared a list of titles that included the International Journal of Educational Technology. When I met with Dr Hacker again later that day, we agreed that the best new title was the "International Journal of Educational Technology" [Brian Sova reflects on IJET's origins]

The key purpose underlying the proposed merger of IJET with AJET is to sustain the work of those who created and supported IJET. If a journal is discontinued... a duty to the authors, and the editors who worked with them, will be unfulfilled. Their work 'dies'. However, if their work is placed in a sustainable, open access archive associated with a closely related and actively growing journal, it has a much better opportunity to remain 'alive'. [About the IJET archive and the merger]

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