Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2012

After twelve editions - ICALT2001, Madison, USA; ICALT2002, Kazan Russia; ICALT2003, Athens, Greece; ICALT2004, Joensuu, Finland; ICALT2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; ICALT2006, Kerkrade, The Netherlands; ICALT2007, Niigata, Japan; ICALT2008, Santander, Spain; ICALT2009, Riga, Latvia; ICALT2010, Sousse, Tunisia; ICALT2011, Athens, Georgia, USA and ICALT2012, Rome, Italy - ICALT can be considered without any doubt the yearly event that allows at best understanding what is going on at the frontiers of the advanced learning technologies. ICALT2012 is a veritable "world championship" as evidenced by the 490 submissions from 51 countries, the full papers acceptance rate (19%) the increasing interest in all different forms of participation (PhD consortium, workshops), including the "European Project Track". Of course, as always, all submissions were peer-reviewed in a triple-blind review process by an international panel and decisions were taken based on the assessed research quality.