Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All

1. Front Matter

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2. Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-Learning for the Knowledge Society

   1. Language Micro-gaming: Fun and Informal Microblogging Activities for Language Learning

      • Maria A. Perifanou

      Pages 1-14

   2. Appropriating Technologies for Contextual Knowledge: Mobile Personal Learning Environments

      • Graham Attwell, John Cook, Andrew Ravenscroft

      Pages 15-25

   3. Teachers Professional Development through Web 2.0 Environments

      • Cristina Costa

      Pages 26-32

   4. Using Web 2.0 Applications as Supporting Tools for Personal Learning Environments

      • Ricardo Torres Kompen, Palitha Edirisingha, Josep M. Monguet

      Pages 33-40

   5. An Infrastructure for Intercommunication between Widgets in Personal Learning Environments

      • Tobias Nelkner

      Pages 41-48

   6. Communities of Practice as a Support Function for Social Learning in Distance Learning Programs

      • Ashley Healy

      Pages 49-56

   7. Do Open Source LMSs Support Personalization? A Comparative Evaluation

      • Tania Kerkiri, Angela-Maria Paleologou

      Pages 57-66

   8. The Impact of Organizational Learning on Innovativeness in Spanish Companies

      • Jesús David Sánchez de Pablo González del Campo, Miha Škerlavaj

      Pages 67-76

   9. Educatronics, New Technologies and Knowledge Society: A Critical Approach

      • Olmo A. Moreno-Franco, Prudenciano Moreno-Moreno, L. A. Muñoz-Ubando

      Pages 77-86

   10. Effectiveness of Game-Based Learning: Influence of Cognitive Style

       • Miloš Milovanović, Miroslav Minović, Ivana Kovačević, Jelena Minović, Dušan Starčević

       Pages 87-96

   11. Goneis.gr: Training Greek Parents on ICT and Safer Internet

       • Nikos Manouselis, Katerina Riviou, Nikos Palavitsinis, Vasiliki Giannikopoulou, Panayotis Tsanakas

       Pages 97-106

   12. Educational Accountability and the Global Knowledge Society – What Can We Learn from the EU Experience?

       • Kornelia Kozovska, Rossana Rosati, Daniele Vidoni

       Pages 107-118

   13. Participatory Design of the Participatory Culture: Students’ Projections of e-Learning 2.0

       • George Palaigeorgiou, George Triantafyllakos, Avgoustos Tsinakos

       Pages 119-128

   14. Towards an “Intelligent” Tagging Tool for Blogs

       • Juraj Frank, Renate Motschnig, Martin Homola

       Pages 129-136

   15. ICT in the Classroom Microworld - Some Reservations

       • Ioannis Papadopoulos, Vassilios Dagdilelis

       Pages 137-145

   16. Quality Development in Education

       • Spiros Panetsos, Anastasios Zogopoulos, Odysseas Tigas, Albina Gubaidullina

       Pages 146-153

   17. Capitalizing Knowledge in Communities of Practice of e-Learning: Ontology-Based Community Memory

       • Akila Sarirete, Azeddine Chikh, Elizabeth Noble

       Pages 154-163

3. Information Technologies - Knowledge Management Systems - E-Business and Business, Organizational and Inter-organizational Information Systems for the Knowledge Society

   1. An Empirical Study on the Use of Web 2.0 by Greek Adult Instructors in Educational Procedures

      • John Vrettaros, Alexis Tagoulis, Niki Giannopoulou, Athanasios Drigas

      Pages 164-170

   2. Estimation for Up/Down Fluctuation of Stock Prices by Using Neural Network

      • Toyohide Watanabe, Kenji Iwata

      Pages 171-178

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer LNCS proceedings of the Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, organized by the Open - search Society, Ngo, http://www.open-knowledge-society.org, and held in Samaria Hotel, in the beautiful city of Chania in Crete, Greece, September 16–18, 2009. The 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009) was an inter- tional scientific event devoted to promoting dialogue on the main aspects of the knowledge society towards a better world for all. The multidimensional economic and social crisis of the last couple of years has brought to the fore the need to discuss in depth new policies and strategies for a human centric developmental processes in the global context. This annual summit brings together key stakeholders involved in the worldwide development of the knowledge society, from academia, industry, and government, including policy makers and active citizens, to look at the impact and prospects of - formation technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of l- ing, working, learning, innovating, and collaborating in today’s hyper-complex world. The summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research on new scientific ideas relevant to - ternational research agendas such as the EU (FP7), OECD, or UNESCO. We focus on the key aspects of a new sustainable deal for a bold response to the multidimensional crisis of our times.

• E-Government
• democracy
• e-democracy
• e-learning
• innovation
• knowledge management
• learning
• management
• organization

• Open Research Society, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

  Miltiadis D. Lytras

• University of Ovieto, Spain

  Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

• Department of Information Technology, University of Milan, Crema (CR), Italy

  Ernesto Damiani

• ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

  David Avison

• KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden

  Ambjörn Naeve

• The American College of Greece, Greece

  David G. Horner

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