Adaptive learning environments with knowledge representation and social interaction

Web 2.0 technologies bring a shift in learning environments where different collaborative spaces are emerging. Unfortunately the abrupt spin-of web technologies don't have an immediate echo on the learning paradigm. Learning itself must modify, adapt and incorporate these technologies push-ups. Therefore this research project appears in order to grasp the emergent web based learning environments and thus project learning into a higher level, bringing the learner closer to the teacher. The idea is to complement the classroom activities with a web collaborative learning tool, which should bring some new added value to make it a competitive advantage idea. In fact, by combining learning material organized in topics, user personalization on each topic entrance and with the possibility of enabling users to interact among themselves through discussions, we hope to deliver a collaborative learning environment, where students and teachers will actively interact in a social network of knowledge.