Editorial — Volume 26, Issue 2

This is our second issue of IRRODL after celebrating our silver (25th) anniversary.It is notable how the field of open and distributed learning (ODL) has evolved.ODL was once a peripheral branch of education.Now open, distance, online, and distributed learning is increasingly a part of mainstream education.IRRODL has benefited from, and been means to, this mainstreaming.As the profile of IRRODL has grown, so have the number of submissions.We are happy to have such strong interest from researchers and practitioners.We do want to clarify that IRRODL is a journal for open and distributed learning.We are highly interested in furthering research and discussion on open education, distributed learning, online, and distance education across the globe.But we are not an educational technology journal.Though ed tech and