For anyone who is working on scholarship around online courses or MOOCs. > > Subject: Call for submissions - eLearning papers issue on MOOCs and Beyond - Deadline April 8th > Reply-To: Editorial Team eLearning <[log in to unmask]> > > > > We are contacting you to inform you about a call for contributions from eLearning Papers which, given your field of expertise, might be of interest to you and your colleagues. > > We are currently welcoming submissions which address the challenges and future of Massive Open Online Courses, a trend in education that has skyrocketed since 2008. Issue 33, MOOCs and Beyond, seeks to both generate debate, and coalesce a variety of critical perspectives into a fruitful body of research. > > Some suggested focus areas are listed below: > > - Experiences speaking to the design, implementation or assessment of a MOOC. > > - Empirical evaluation of MOOCs. > > - The impact of MOOCs within Higher Education. > > - Learning analytics and MOOCs. > > - Peer-to-peer learning and MOOCs. > > - Analyses of the impact and reach of MOOCs – considering course completion, global recognition. > > - Challenging the MOOC concept: how “massive” is massive, how “open” is open? > > - Possible MOOC off-line elements. Should we be talking about MOOLEs (Massive Open Online Learning Environments) and MOOLCs (Massive Open Online Learning Communities) instead? > > - Design patterns and principles of MOOCs. > > I would appreciate it if you could disseminate the Call for Submissions - MOOCs amongst your contacts and colleagues so that we receive as many articles as possible until the deadline, April 8th 2013. > > Kind regards, > > Laia Canals > Chief Editor > eLearning Papers > Held by P.A.U. Education > Muntaner, 262, 3rd, 08021 Barcelona Spain > Tel: (34) 933 670 407 > > [log in to unmask] > www.elearningpapers.eu > www.elearningeuropa.info > > If you do not wish to receive any more emails from this address, please click unsubscribe . > > > > Julie Libarkin Associate Professor, Director - Geocognition Research Lab Director for Educational Research - Center for Integrative Studies in General Science Michigan State University 288 Farm Lane, 206 Natural Science East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-355-8369 https://www.msu.edu/~libarkin Affiliations: Center for Integrative Studies in General Science, Department of Geological Sciences, Cognitive Science Program, Environmental Science and Policy Program