E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments

E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments

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Release Date: April, 2011|Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 452
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-983-5
ISBN13: 9781615209835|ISBN10: 1615209832|EISBN13: 9781615209842
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Description:

The emerging knowledge society places new requirements on the educational sector to support the needs of individuals and organizations. In the discipline of lifelong learning, which is one of the most important forces driving education in the 21st century, e-learning has become a collaborative and community-based process. This necessitates tools to support the autonomous and dynamic creation of lifelong learning communities and new distributed e-learning services.

E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art technologies for e-learning and lifelong learning, examining theoretical approaches, models, architectures, systems and applications. It addresses critical issues in the field, providing readers with insight on the various stages of the technological life cycle, as well as applications in real world settings. As a one-stop reference, this book provides a holistic view of the various issues in the area of advanced technologies for lifelong learning ranging from organizational issues to lifelong learning delivery issues.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Adult Learning
  • Digital Literacy
  • E-learning development and design
  • Game-Based Learning
  • Online Course Development
  • Personalized Learning
  • Social Media
  • Ubiquitous Learning
  • Virtual Worlds
  • Web 2.0 for lifelong learning
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George Magoulas is Professor of Computer Science and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a member of the London Knowledge Lab (www.lkl.ac.uk). The main thrust of his work is in the development of intelligent techniques for learner modelling and personalised learning environments. He was an invited speaker at the Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems 2003 (AH2003), part of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2003), and keynote speaker at the International e-Learning Forum 2007, Tokyo, Japan. He has secured 1.2m+ GBP funding from UK funding agencies as Principal Investigator or co-Investigator of research and development projects that have attracted a total of 3.5m+ GBP in competitive external funding. Within these and other projects he has worked closely with partners active in various areas of information technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and lifelong learning, and was involved in collaborations with public bodies, such as the Linking London Lifelong Learning Network, the UCAS and the learndirect. He was co-editor of the books: “Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems” (2005) and “Advances in Web-based Education: Personalized Learning Environments” (2006). George is currently working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) to scaffold teachers’ decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. He is leading the research on the intelligent components of the LDSE and the design and implementation of the interactive environment. Through an iterative research-design process the LDSE team hopes to address some important challenges in the area of learning design and build the means by which the teaching community can collaborate further on how best to deploy TEL.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Sara de Freitas, Coventry University, UK.
  • Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain.
  • Claude Frasson, Université de Montréal, Canada.
  • Michael J. Jacobson,  University of Sydney, Australia.
  • Nancy Law, University of Hong Kong, HK.
  • Robert D. Macredie, Brunel University, UK.
  • Toshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan.
  • Hokyoung Ryu, Massey University, New Zealand.
  • Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece.
  • Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  • Tsutomu Terada, Kobe University, Japan