Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management

In the last years, knowledge and learning management have made a significant impact on the IT research community. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management: Strategies Beyond Tools presents learning and knowledge management from a point of view where the basic tools and applications are provided by open source technologies. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management: Strategies Beyond Tools explains an intense orientation to the critical issues of the open source paradigm: open source tools, applications, social networks, and knowledge sharing in open source communities. Open source technologies, tools, and applications are analyzed in the context of knowledge and learning, and this convergence formulates a challenging landscape for the deployment of information technology.

Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras earned his Ph.D., MBA, and B.Sc. from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He is a faculty member in both the Computers Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) and the Department of Business Administration at the University of Patras. He s also a faculty member in the Technology Education and Digital Systems Department at the University of Piraeus. Since 1998, he has been a research officer in ELTRUN, the research center in the Department of Management Science and Technology at AUEB. His research focuses on Semantic Web, knowledge management and e-learning, with more than 50 publications in these areas. He has co-edited nine special issues in international journals and has authored/edited six books. He is the founder of the Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Interest Group in the Association for Information Systems (http://www.sigsemis.org) as well as the co-founder of AIS SIG on Reusable Learning Objects and Learning Design (http://www.sigrlo.org). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for three international journals, while acting as an associate editor or editorial board member in seven other journals. Dr. Ambjörn Naeve (www.nada.kth.se/~amb) has a background in mathematics and computer science and received his Ph.D. in computer science from KTH in 1993. He is presently coordinator of research on Interactive Learning Environments and the Semantic Web at the Centre for user-oriented Information technology Design (CID: http://cid.nada.kth.se) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH: www.kth.se) in Stockholm, where he heads the Knowledge Management Research group (KMR: http://kmr.nada.kth.se).