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PREFACE

The benefits of the personalization and adaptation of computer applications to each
user have been widely reported in recent decades. Educational applications are not an
exception, both in e-learning, i.e. the use of electronic media to teach or assess, and in
b-learning (blended learning), i.e. to combine traditional face-to-face instruction with
electronic media.
     The International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning
Environments (PALE) is the result of merging the experience and background of
three workshops focused on applying user modeling, personalization and adaptation
in learning environments. Each of them has been organized as a learning café
following the corresponding methodology and aiming to provide an answer to the
question “Which approaches can be followed to personalize learning environments?”
from different perspectives, as follows:
     • APLEC: Adaptation and Personalization in E-B/Learning using
          Pedagogic Conversational Agents. It is focused on the open issues in
          interactive learning environments that build the knowledge with the student
          through a set of interactions, such as in natural language by using animated
          Pedagogic Conversational Agents (PCAs).
     • ROLE: Personalizing Responsive Open Learning Environments. It is
          focused on the open issues in responsive open learning environments that
          permit personalization of the entire learning environment and its
          functionalities, i.e. individualization of its components and their adjustment
          or replacement by alternative solutions.
     • TUMAS-A: Towards User Modeling and Adaptive Systems for All. It is
          focused on the open issues in inclusive learning environments to provide a
          personalized, accessible and ubiquitous support for their users (learners,
          facilitators, professors) using the appropriate technologies and standards as
          well as the evaluation procedures that can measure the impact of the
          personalized and inclusive support for all, but considering their individual
          and evolving needs, in their particular context.
    The workshop will take place on 15th of July 2011, in Girona, Spain in conjunction
with the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
(UMAP). A blind peer-reviewed process by at least two reviewers with expertise in
the area has been carried out. As a result, 12 submissions have been accepted. This
volume contains the proceedings of the workshop organized according to the different
learning cafés. We would like to thank the authors for their submissions, our
Programme Committee members for their reviews and the UMAP workshop chairs
for their advice and guidance during the PALE workshop organization.

                                                                               June 2011

                                                                  Dr. Diana Pérez-Marín
                                                                      Dr. Milos Kravcik
                                                                      Dr. Olga C. Santos
                                                                                 Editors

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