CAL-laborate International is devoted to research into science education at a university level. It aims to publish papers that meet the needs and intellectual interests of tertiary teachers of the physical and life sciences, with some emphasis on the educational use of Information and Communication Technologies. It gives academics the chance to share ideas, thoughts and experiences concerning research work they carry out in their own teaching. This is an area in which there are relatively few technical journals, so academics often find it difficult to publish their work with the proper peer reviewing. This is where CAL-laborate International comes in.

Its main aims can be found in the name of the journal.

Contributions to this journal should be of value and interest to university science teachers and students. Of particular interest are papers which can be used to bring contemporary educational research (or indeed mainstream science research) into the classroom. Papers describing novel approaches to laboratory and classroom teaching, especially if involving the use of ICT, are appropriate, provided the new methods are of general interest and can be successfully transferred to other settings. But they should not be merely descriptions along the lines of "how I taught my last class and what the students thought of it".