SPeL 2011 - 4th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2011)

This workshop deals with current research on e-learning as an intelligent

e-technology, more specifically the challenges of social and

personalization aspects in Web-supported learning communities. Its aim is

to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area,

including research about the planning, development, application, and

evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn

together in a personalized way.

Topics of interest

The workshop welcomes submissions covering all aspects of Web Intelligence

related to social and personal computing in web-based learning

communities, including (but not limited to):

- Web 2.0 and social computing for learning

- Virtual spaces for learning communities

- Web supported ubiquitous learning

- Service-oriented computing for e-learning

- Ontologies and semantic Web for e-learning

- Mobile e-learning applications

- Intelligent learner and group modeling

- Adaptive and personalized learning environments

- Adaptive Web interfaces for learning scenarios

- Cognitive aspects in intelligent web-based learning systems

- Web mining in learning settings

- Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners

- Web-based cooperative learning

- Intelligent agent technology in web-based education

- Pervasive e-learning scenarios

- Knowledge community formation and support

- Lifelong learning networks

- Social software for collaborative learning

- Socially intelligent agents

- Semantic social networks

- Community discovering in social learning systems

- Social structure exploitation in e-learning

- Socially-inspired e-learning systems