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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become a widely recognized as a valuable form of informal learning. The task now at hand is to develop a rich body of research and documented practice so that educational institutions and learners can better benefit from this new form of education.
This issue of the eLearning Papers contributes to that body of knowledge with four in-depth research papers and six reports from the field
Via Peter B. Sloep
February this year, I reported in a scoop http://sco.lt/9LK4Sv ; about my attendance of the European MOOC summit that was held at the EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland.
The conference featured many lively discussions on policy and business models. but also on experiences with and research on MOOCs. A number of the research papers now have been published in this special issue of eLearning papers (issue 37). I will not comment on the individual papers and direct you towards the remarks I made in a blog post <http://pbsloep.blogspot.nl/2014/02/european-moocs-stakeholder-summit-2014.html>, in which I briefly discussed some. Please note that these remarks pertain to the unpolished versions of the papers that featured in the conference proceedings. May I add that the editor is to be commended on producing this collection in such a speedy fashion?
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