The paper presents an approach to active learning facilitated by the use of semantic technologies. Some features of active learning and understanding of learning in humanities are discussed. The specifics of a well defined learning task - learner’s authoring of analytical materials, grounded by materials from a digital library - are analyzed to shape the functionality of experimental Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) environment with a built-in domain and pedagogical knowledge. The environment structure and realization are discussed and a learning example is presented.

The aim of the present paper is to give a brief information about the innovative functionalities and potential of the Digital Ecosystems for Cultural Heritage. The main features of digital ecosystems are shortly presented. A brief overview of some recent European projects dedicated to research and development of digital cultural ecosystems sketches their specifics, reveal some common characteristics and some development trends.

The paper deals with learning-by-doing activities through learner's authoring of analytical materials in well-defined learning situations, considering some specifics of education in humanities. These 'learning-by-authoring' activities are facilitated by Semantic Web techniques to support the learners in the access and filtration of necessary information objects to be analysed during the authoring process. The paper discusses a framework for Technology Enhanced Learning environment under experimental realisation for a concrete humanitarian domain -Bulgarian Iconography covered in a set of educational disciplines like iconography, arts, history, culture studies, theology, etc. The paper contains an example with structured formulation of a concrete learning task, used in the environment to help in the execution of the steps of collection development and in the evaluation of the adequacy of the selected representative subset of objects.