Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning: Collaborative Methods and Human Interaction

by Niki Lambropoulos, Margarida Romero (Editor)

The emergence of Web 2.0 has triggered a trend towards global online social interactions and has brought sociology into the global interactive picture, creating educational issues relating to individual and social learning for the internalization and externalization of information and knowledge. Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Collaborative Methods and Human Interaction examines socio-cultural elements in educational computing focused on design and theory where learning and setting are intertwined. This advanced publication addresses real-life case studies where evaluations have been applied and validated in computational systems.

310 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

Niki Lambropoulos Ph.D. is an academic author and screenwriter, PRINCE2-certified Project Manager and a Human Computer Interaction Education researcher. She holds a BA and a Diploma in Education at the University of Athens in Greece, an MA in ICT in Education at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), a Ph.D. and Marie Curie post-doctoral research at London South Bank University in the UK. She is a PADI-certified diver and ecological initiatives supporter and activist.