Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Defining the scope, purpose and objects of social information retrieval in TEL
* Recommender systems and collaborative filtering in educational settings
* Novel ways of generating input for recommenders (explicit and implicit methods)
* Ranking of search results to support individualised learning needs
* Integrating SIR services in existing learning management systems
* Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based information retrieval systems
* Social navigation processes and metaphors for searching information related to teaching and learning
* Analysing social interactions in learning communities and social networks on the Web to facilitate information sharing and retrieval
* Approaches to TEL metadata that reflect social ties and collaborative experiences in the field of education
* Interoperability of SIR systems for TEL
* Visualisation techniques to support social navigation in learning and teaching
* Semantic annotation and tagging for social information retrieval purposes
* Evaluating the performance of SIR systems in educational applications
* Measuring the effectiveness of SIR systems in supporting learning and teaching
* Evaluation the user satisfaction with SIR systems in supporting learning and teaching