Mesquita, AnabelaPeres, PaulaMoreira, Fernando2019-10-212019-10-212017http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/14734The educational model based on fixed time, place, curriculum, and pace is not enough in today’s society and knowledge-based economy. The education system needs to address the diversity of students’ backgrounds and needs. Furthermore, educational equity is not about equal access and inputs, but ensuring that a student’s educational path, curriculum, instruction, and schedule is developed in order to meet students’ needs. Finally, personalized learning requires a leveraging of modern technologies enabled by smart e-learning systems, developed to track and manage the learning needs of all students, and to provide access to learning content, resources, and learning opportunities which areengSocial networksCustomized X-learning environment: social networks & knowledge-sharing toolsjournal article10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.025