Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

Instructional Design and Ethical Pedagogy (IDEP) provides immediate and permanent open access to all published scholarly content. This policy is based on the principle that freely accessible research supports wider dissemination, scholarly collaboration, and the advancement of knowledge in instructional design, ethics, morality, character formation, and religious values in higher education.

All articles published by IDEP are freely available immediately upon publication without subscription fees, registration requirements, or reader access charges. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, and adapt published works in accordance with the journal's Creative Commons licensing terms.

Immediate and Permanent Access

IDEP does not impose an embargo period. Published articles become openly accessible immediately upon publication and remain permanently available through the official journal website as part of the scholarly record.

Creative Commons License

Articles published in IDEP are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Under this license, users may share and adapt published material provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the material is not used for commercial purposes, and any adapted material is distributed under the same or a compatible license.

BY · Attribution
Appropriate credit must be given to the original author(s) and source.
NC · NonCommercial
Published material may not be used primarily for commercial purposes.
SA · ShareAlike
Adapted material must be distributed under the same license terms.