In this work, Web 2.0 technologies in higher education are evaluated using students' perceptions, satisfaction, performance and behaviour. The study evaluates the Web 2.0 tools as stand‐alone entities as well in terms of their cross‐operability and integration (confluence) to synergistic contributions towards the enhancement of student learning. Significant correlations and interdependencies on the students' behaviour over the used platform and their performance in various time points within the course time line have been revealed.

In this work, a semantic web framework is proposed. The aim of the framework is to semantically process and link data from different sources. The proposed framework embeds multiple entry channels for different target groups and motivations to re-use, report, comment and share content. The implementation is built on top of a Content Management System. In this approach we are using Drupal but any other CMS can be used alternatively. Even though in our paradigm the sources are mainly from an institution's data, namely National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) digital library, the utilization of the proposed architecture can be directly extended to additional fields.

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Unisuite is an integrated suite of applications for the creation and management of e-learning. It consists of three stateof-the-art stand-alone entities, Unibook, Uniboard and UniPM, which communicate via smart interfaces. In this paper, the technical characteristics of Unisuite are presented. The technological and operational innovations are analyzed and potential extensions and improvements are presented.

In this paper, an integrated framework is proposed which covers synchronous and asynchronous education using several Web 2.0 tools and which takes into account several existing principles, views and strategies. Furthermore, this framework embeds self-evaluation mechanisms that are based on the performance of students, on answers to appropriately structured questionnaires and on the on-line monitoring of the supporting platform's parameters.