Guest Editorial: Special Section on Social Computing and Social Knowledge for e-Learning

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Social Computing and Social Knowledge for e-Learning

NEW web technologies and especially social networks enable users to share and discuss common interests and provide infrastructures for integrating various user experiences: synchronous and asynchronous communication, game-playing, sharing links and files. Social network and social interaction using mobile and cloud platforms capture vast amounts of data that can be mined to discover implicit kn...

Editorial: Special Section on Social Web Technologies in E-Learning

Welcome to the last 2011 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. As you can see, this issue includes a special section devoted to using social web technologies in e-learning. Unlike other special sections, which were scheduled in advance and managed by guest editors, this section was not planned. Yet, with the overall popularity of social web technologies and the increased inte...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Clouds for Social Computing

IN recent time, two complimentary Internet based research areas are emerging: social computing and cloud computing. On the one hand, social computing empowers individual users with relatively low technological sophistication to use the web to engage in social interactions, contribute their expertise and share their content, experiences and opinions. On the other hand, cloud computing offers eve...

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Learning Analytics

Guest Editorial Special Section on Soft Computing for Space Autonomy

Robotic and human exploration of our solar system requires space missions to be designed with high levels of autonomy for dealing with hostile environments and restricted communication links. Researchers are discovering new solutions to associated problems using fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation and probabilistic reasoning, some of the principal elements of soft ...