Personalization tools for active learning in digital libraries

The active learning of individual users can be supported in the personalized information environment of a digital library. With respect to digital materials, three main facilities are required when active learning tools are designed and developed, namely, active consuming, information gathering and information seeking. The architecture of a personalized information environment is divided into two schemas called collection personalization and material personalization. This article discusses how those tools are designed, developed and used to access digital text, audio and video materials. (author's abstract)