The idea behind this first book stemmed from a combination of ideas about e-learning and personalisation together with adopted concepts from a research initiative about crowdsourcing. E-learning has long been a domain which attracted my attention as I professionally chose to work within the areas of education at the outset of my career and eventually switched to computer science as personal computers made their public appearance in the late 80s. Applying information technology to education brought together both interests into one focused domain
that turned out to be a vibrant and flourishing domain that required further research, experimentation and development.