Continuous education is one of the big challenges for all countries around the globe.
We are heavily involved, e.g., in the development of the German national learning backbone L3 as part of a research lighthouse project. The Next Generation of Learning Platforms minitrack focuses on general requirements and novel approaches of learning architectures that support flexible delivery of learning content over both traditional networks and upcoming wireless infrastructures, aiming to reach any potential user. The accepted three papers for this year's minitrack provide a good overview on the work conducted in this research area. At least three reviewers from the different organizations refereed each of the submitted papers. The accepted papers are summarized below.