Apostolos Koutropoulos, a University of Massachusetts Boston PhD student, is launching a Call for Chapters & Illustrators for “The Great Big MOOC Book”, which he aims to publish in Open Access by December 2014.
The book will explore the various aspects of Massive Open Online Courses (cMOOCs and xMOOCs) and it will serve as a primer into the MOOCs field for professors, instructional designers, educational technologists, project managers and educational administrators, among others.
The chapters will revolve around the issues associated with MOOCs in Higher Education, K-12, corporate learning, and other formal and informal learning environments.
Chapter contributors are invited to submit their proposals by 1 October, 2013. The proposal, a 2-3 page manuscript, should include the chapter summary, table of contents, and authors’ contact information.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for the project.
For more information and contact details visit the project’s webpage.
New Director for Cedefop
James Calleja was selected by the European Commission as new Director of Cedefop. Mr Calleja has been involved in vocational training since 2001 and is currently Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Employment in his native Malta. He has also served as Chief Executive of the Malta Qualifications Council (2005-10) and the National Commission for Higher Education (2009-10).
Mr Calleja is a graduate of the Universities of Malta, Padua (Italy) and Bradford (UK), where he obtained his PhD from the Department of Peace Studies, Political Philosophy and Education. In 2001, he was appointed Administrative Director of the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology and in 2004, he moved to the European Training Foundation as Administrator.
A prolific writer, Mr Calleja has published books and articles and has edited various publications. He is the co-author of the Malta Referencing Report of the Malta qualifications framework to the EQF and the QF-EHEA. He has chaired, participated in and presented several papers at international seminars, conferences and workshops and conducted training in various countries in Europe, North America, South-East Asia, Australia, South Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region.
Mr Calleja will take up his duties on 16 October 2013.
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