Social networks research for sustainable smart education

Social networks research has grown exponentially over the past decade. Subsequent empirical and conceptual advances have been transposed in the field of education. As the debate on delivering better education for all gains momentum, the big question is how to integrate advances in social networks research, corresponding advances in information and communication technology (ICT) and effectively employ them in the domain of education. To address this question, this paper proposes a conceptual framework (maturity model) that integrates social network research, the debate on technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and the emerging concept of smart education

Building a Community Memory in Communities of Practice of e-learning: A Knowledge Engineering Approach

The aim of this paper is to model the Community of Practice (CoP) to include a community memory in order to manage its knowledge. The members of the CoP interact, produce, share, exchange and adapt knowledge and resources to meet their needs and build best practices. In this paper, the CoP is considered as a learning organization whose memory is built on an ontology-based framework including several ontologies such as knowledge, domain and task ontologies. A CoP of e-learning is used as an example of learning organization and as an application for the proposed framewor