Editorial of the Special Issue

Welcome to the 2012 special issue “ICVL 2011 selected papers” of the International Journal of ComputerScience Research and Application. As you can see, this issue includes papers from the 6th InternationalConference on Virtual Learning (NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: ICVLProject – www.c3.icvl.eu) devoted to using ICT and social web technologies in e-learning and education. Withthe overall popularity of social web technologies and the increased interest of teachers and educationalresearchers in this area, more and more papers on this topic have been submitted to the International Journal ofComputer Science Research and Application.We realized that we had a large selection of high quality papers on social web accepted for publication.Collecting these papers in one issue provides a better value for our readers, since together these papers presenta good state-of-the-art picture of the current research on social web and e-learning. The set of papers includedin this special section is exactly as diverse as we would like an introduction to this research direction to be.Most important is the fact that the most popular social technologies currently explored in the area of e-learning,such as blogs, wikis, and social tagging, are addressed by one or more papers in this special section.