Learners in the 21st century are diverse in their educational backgrounds,
learning goals and learning needs.  Semantic Web technology has the potential
to help address these varied needs by using semantic metadata describing
educational material in order to aid learners and instructors to locate
suitable learning resources, and also to share learning resources they have
discovered or authored with other people with similar needs.  The SeLeNe
project aims to elaborate new educational metaphors and tools in order to
facilitate the formation of learning communities that require world-wide
discovery, sharing and assimilation of knowledge.

A Self e-Learning Network offers services for the discovery and sharing of
learning resources, facilitating a syndicated and personalised access to such
resources.  In this deliverable we investigate what the user requirements of
such a system are.  We begin by looking at learners' expectations of
e-learning systems, and we identify where current systems can be improved.
This analysis leads us to define the functionality of a Self e-Learning
Network (SeLeNe), comparing it with traditional learning management systems,
intelligent tutoring systems, and other related research projects.  We
conclude with the identification of some deployment scenarios where a SeLeNe
would be more useful than existing systems.

The Appendix contains a review of a representative range of existing learning
management systems and learning object repositories.