Out Now: Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning

I am glad to announce the Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) which just came out today in Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) Vol 10, No 2 (2009)!

I co-editored it with Erik Duval and Nikos Manouselis. The following stuff's in it, enjoy!

Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning	HTML
Erik Duval, Riina Vuorikari, Nikos Manouselis

Articles

Identifying the Goal, User model and Conditions of Recommender Systems for Formal and Informal Learning	Abstract PDF
Hendrik Drachsler, Hans G. K. Hummel, Rob Koper

The Pedagogical Value of Papers: a Collaborative-Filtering based Paper Recommender	Abstract PDF
Tiffany Y Tang, Gordon McCalla

Lost in social space: Information retrieval issues in Web 1.5	Abstract HTML
Jon Dron, Terry Anderson

Exploratory Analysis of the Main Characteristics of Tags and Tagging of Educational Resources in a Multi-lingual Context	Abstract HTML
Riina Vuorikari, Xavier Ochoa

Visualising Social Bookmarks	Abstract PDF
Joris Klerkx, Erik Duval

A Special thank to people who participated in the PC:

• Alexander Felfernig, University of Klagenfurt, Germany
• Brandon Muramatsu, Utah State University, USA
• David Massar, European Schoolnet, Be
• Hendrik Drachsler, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
• Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
• Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany
• Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer, Germany
• Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, Spain
• Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
  
• Rick D. Hangartner, MyStrands, USA
• Salvador Sanchez, University of Alcala, Spain
  
• Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
• Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany