About the Journal

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Brazilian Journal of Computers in Education (RBIE)

  • Print ISSN: 1414-5685
  • Online ISSN: 2317-6121

The Brazilian Journal of Computers in Education — Revista Brasileira de Informática na Educação (RBIE) — founded in 1997, is a publication maintained by the Special Committee on Computers in Education (CEIE) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), in partnership with researchers and universities in Brazil and abroad. It was the first journal created within SBC. From 1998 to 2001 it published two volumes per year; from 2002 to 2004, two issues per year (one volume per year); from 2005 to 2019, three issues per volume (per year). Since 2020, publication has followed a continuous flow.

Objectives and scope

RBIE seeks to gather and publish works of excellence produced by professionals and researchers in the fields of Computers in Education and Computer Science Education. It aims to disseminate tools, methods, and practices that support the effective use of technology in the teaching and learning process, as well as the improvement of the teaching and learning of Computing as a science.

The journal's main objectives are:

  • To disseminate the scientific production of national and international research groups linked to educational institutions that work with Computers in Education and Computer Science Education;
  • To provide a space for reflection on the everyday issues of computer-mediated teaching practice and of the practice of teaching computing;
  • To deepen knowledge of topics related to the research lines of Postgraduate Programs linked to the field;
  • To stimulate scientific production at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
  • To disseminate computer products applicable to education.

Publication and access

RBIE is an open-access journal. All its content is freely available to the public at no cost: readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking the publisher or the authors for prior permission. RBIE does not charge submission or article processing charges (APC), nor any fees for authors or readers.

Published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. The journal is classified as Qualis A3 by CAPES (2021–2024 period).

Target audience

Researchers in the fields of Computers in Education and Computer Science Education, interested in the advances and innovations of technology for education and in the teaching and learning processes of computing.

Keywords

Computers in Education; Computer Science Education; Educational Technology; Computers in Schools; Computing; Education; Learning; Teaching; Cognition.

Submission

Authors are invited to submit original contributions — written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish — presenting experimental or theoretical results, case studies, surveys, as well as new ideas and applications advancing a broad spectrum of technical areas.

As of 2026, submissions use RBIE's official LaTeX template (class rbie2026); see the Author Guidelines for the complete instructions. RBIE operates in continuous flow: when an article is accepted and the Editorial Committee approves its final version (camera-ready), it receives a DOI and is published online. ORCID registration is mandatory to authenticate the authors' identity; authors retain copyright under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Contributions

Contributions are accepted in different formats:

  • Completed scientific works, presenting experiments, experience reports, or scientific discussions;
  • Ongoing research, presenting new ideas with preliminary results and critical discussions, addressing relevant problems, describing system implementations, etc.;
  • Surveys with a critical view of a specific area, including a complete review of the state of the art and rigorous methodology (such as systematic reviews);
  • Essays, position papers, or tutorials that deeply explore a specific topic from a theoretical or practical point of view.

Ethics and editorial best practices

RBIE adopts editorial best practices, valuing open, inclusive, democratic, and free science, aligned with the guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and with the SBC Code of Conduct. Authors are encouraged to share research data and materials to complement their publications, adding rigor and reproducibility.

Authors are also encouraged to critically examine their references, rationale, and methods, striving to avoid and combat different forms of bias in science (such as gender, race, ethnicity, social class, or disability bias, etc.).

RBIE has specific processes and instructions for handling post-publication matters and reader communications.

Back issues and archiving

Since June 2021, new submissions have been made exclusively through this portal (SBC-OpenLib/SOL). Previously published back issues are available at this link and are being migrated to SBC-OpenLib.

Advertising

RBIE does not produce or allow the publication of paid or free advertising on its website or in its publications.

RBIE reserves the right to occasionally publicize calls for special issues on Brazilian Computer Society mailing lists or similar channels. RBIE does not carry out any direct marketing activities, including the solicitation of manuscripts conducted on behalf of the journal.