This paper investigates learning in a lifelong context. Lifelong learning addresses situations in which a learner faces a whole stream of learning tasks. Such scenarios provide the opportunity to transfer knowledge across multiple learning tasks, in order to generalize more accurately from less training data. In this paper, several different approaches to lifelong learning are described, and ap...

Personalization approaches in learning environments are crucial to foster effective, active, efficient, and satisfactory learning. The focus of the PALE workshop series is on the different and complementary perspectives in which personalization can be addressed in learning environments (e.g., informal, workplace, lifelong, mobile, contextualized, and self-regulated learning) and offers an oppor...

The role of libraries in supporting learning is virtually unquestionable. Research indicates that much learning in life is often in informal settings. It is interesting to note that mobile computing affords a great opportunity for supporting such learning. Not only are we living in a "mobile age" or "ubiquitous age", but we are also living in a "digital age". Even as we acknowledge the window o...

Sensor networks that can support time-critical operations pose challenging problems for tracking events of interest. We propose an architecture for a sensor network that autonomously adapts in real-time to data fusion requirements so as not to miss events of interest and provides accurate real-time mobile target tracking. In the proposed architecture, the sensed data is processed in an abstract...

AN OPEN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT separation between the learner and the sources of learning Millions of people of different ages, all over the world, in This often involves the use of communication media developing and industrialized countries alike, remain Time deprived of the opportunity to learn. Some of them have Many people cannot learn because of time constraints. When never had the chance to...

The COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities to create innovative, robust services as libraries worked support residential-turned-online students. This paper situates the in broader context of challenges distance learners face, discusses opportunity for innovation that came a result at one university library, and considers lasting impact these changes may have on future library learners.