The International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2008) brings together people who are working on the design, development, use and evaluation of technologies that will be the foundation of the next generation of e-learning systems and technology-enhanced learning environments.

This year’s theme is “Learning technologies in the Information society”. It is unquestionable that technology is a useful tool to enhance the learning process and during the last ICALT conferences significant advances have been presented in this sense. Besides the usual topics of the conference, this edition of the conference aims to explore the role of learning technologies to step forward in the transformation from the information society to a knowledge society where everybody (independently of race, sex, abilities, capabilities, ...) can be benefit from technologies to enhance her learning process. This opens a world of opportunities for analysing the use of technology in inclusive learning environments that take into account the characteristics and expectations of different kinds of users and different kinds of learning experiences, whether formal or informal, individual or cooperative, life-long or short term. This year, the ICALT main conference received 395 papers from 44 countries (not counting the submissions received for various panels and workshops). All submissions were peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process by an international panel of at least two international expert referees. The only criterion that was used to accept or reject papers was that of quality. We are very pleased to note that the quality of the submissions this year turned out to be very high. A total of 102 papers were accepted as full papers in the main ICALT conference: a 29.65% acceptance rate. 113 papers were selected for presentation as short papers and 55 as posters. There are also four keynotes, four tutorials, four panels and five workshops in this years ICALT conference. We acknowledge the invaluable assistance of the program committee and the international referees, who are named on another page. Most reviewers opted to provide detailed comments to the authors, making it a valuable experience for the authors even if their submission was not selected for the conference. With all the effort that has gone into the process, by authors and reviewers, we are confident that this year’s ICALT proceedings will immediately earn a place as an indispensable overview of the state of the art and will have significant archival value in the longer term.