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‚ÄãThis work focuses on the characterization of adult lifelong learners‚Äô Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)¬†by implicit and explicit tools of personalization.¬†It aims¬†aims toward creating a system for the development of a learning path for the characterisation of PLE for adult life learners. ¬†The synergy of formal and informal learning in the dynamic construction of a lifelong learner‚Äôs PLE¬†is fully¬†explored, with the recognition that the majority of¬†learning, especially for life long learners,¬†occurs outside traditional learning formats. Specifically, this volume discusses the design, implementation, and validation of the SSW4LL (Social Semantic Web for Lifelong Learners) format, and the¬†the SSW4LL system, built on Moodle 2.0 integrated with an adaptive mechanism (conditional activities) and some tools of Social Semantic Web (Semantic MediaWiki, Diigo and Google+).¬†With thoroughly grounded cases studies, this volume¬†makes the case that these systems¬†are suitable to provide a dynamically personalized learning environment to the lifelong learner. All of these environments are fully discussed and cases made for each as a tool for constructing adult learners’ PLEs.‚Äã