Social Learning, Rich Media, and Games
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Nederlands
Fridolin Wild, The Open University, UK

In technology oriented research in general, and in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in particular, the use of buzzwords can be quite confusing and create the impression that the field suffers from waves of fashionable topics without making any real progress. “Social Learning”, “Learning 2.0” and similar such terms are certainly fashionable, but we do believe that there is also real substance behind these terms. The following chapters illustrate some of this substance.