The great evolution of the online world effects many domains, mainly education and
knowledge management era. The new trend in educational institutes moves towards online …

Today's students, being used to constant activity and multitasking in their everyday life, need
a high level of social and creative engagement in order to learn; for them, highly interactive …

Educators have been calling for reform for a decade. Recent technical breakthroughs have
led to various improvements in the semantic web-based education system. After last year's …

Over the past years, the Internet witnessed the widespread use of social network sites
(SNSs) that saw their number of subscribers soar to unprecedented levels. Yet, until …

In this chapter the authors analyze issues and ideas regarding the next generation of e-
Learning, which is already known as e-Learning 2.0 or social e-Learning. They will look at …

The widespread use of computing and communications technologies has enabled the
popularity of social networks oriented to learn. In this work, we study the nature and strength …

With the increasing popularity of social networking services like Facebook or Twitter, social
network analysis has emerged again. Discovering the underlying relationships between …

The development of Web 2.0 and social software applications was not initially aimed for
education, but its influence in this field, especially in e-learning, is recently recognized as …

It is commonly accepted that contemporary cohorts of students witness and experience the
benefits of information technologies in their learning processes. The so-called``digital …

Within the new vision of teaching focused on student's learning, the Learning Object concept
acquires an important role in instructional design, development, and adaptive delivery of …