The rise of the Web had a tremendous impact on how learning and knowledge acquisition takes place, specifically in social environments such as LinkedIn or Slideshare, where exchange of knowledge or resources are among the key motivations for interaction

Learning Analytics (LA) as a key aspect of Learning Process Management (LPM) supports the measurement, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs

The interdisciplinary project SALIENT researches methods to detect learning intents and aims at improving retrieval performance accordingly during multimodal (learning-related) Web search