About the Journal

Digital Innovation in Special and Inclusive Education (DISIE) is a peer-reviewed, Gold open-access journal at the intersection of educational research and digital practice. The journal publishes work that advances understanding of how digital technologies, methods, and infrastructures can support learners with disabilities, learners with special educational needs, and inclusive educational settings more broadly.

DISIE is intentionally interdisciplinary. We welcome submissions from special education, rehabilitation pedagogy, educational technology, human-computer interaction, accessibility research, learning sciences, and adjacent fields, including international and comparative perspectives. We are equally interested in rigorous empirical studies, well-grounded theoretical contributions, structured practice reports, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

The journal is operated independently by its editor through no fluff (Inhaber: Dr. Jannik Nitz, Köln) and is not tied to a publisher. Readers face no paywall or subscription; all accepted articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 4.0), with copyright remaining with the authors. An article processing charge (APC) of 380 EUR applies on acceptance to cover editorial work, DOI registration, and platform operation. Explicit waiver categories ensure access is not limited to those with funding — see the Author Guidelines for details.

Editorial decisions follow the COPE Code of Conduct for journal editors.