"As a result of the growing openness of the curriculum and the abundance of
learning materials, navigation --- or the creation of one's own learning
trails --- has become an important issue in education, " said Schoonenboom,  "So much so, that we
distinguish it as a separate stage in our Trails' cycle of learning. To
make navigational learning possible, learners have to be supported and
empowered. In this book we show the role of inferring peoples' interests and
what they have learned; personalisation and advise based on these
inferences; and visualisations that learners can understand in the process
of both individual and collaborative navigational learning."

The publication results from the Kaleidoscope activity Personalised and
Collaborative Trails of Digital and Non-Digital Learning Objects, which
sought to apply new technologies to the challenge of trail-support in
eLearning.  As users navigate through a learning environment, they follow
prescribed trails and create personal trails through their interactions. In
digital learning environments, these trails can be stored, evaluated and
accessed in a structured manner.   This book is about sequences of learning
objects ordered according to time or according to the demands of given
learning materials.  It is written by an interdisciplinary team that
investigates how trails can be used to support curriculum development, and
examines the importance of trails within the context of personalised and
collaborative learning. 

Trails in Education:  Technologies that Support Navigational Learning is published this month by
Sense Publishers.