[EN] Knowledge Society challenges and issues require of complex technological systems that may evolve and interoperate each other. This complexity means to reorganize
these systems as a set of components that may offer services,
interact and evolve in very different ways including capabilities such as adaptation and intelligent behaviors. Also, the users
should be considered as other important components of these so called technological ecosystems. The Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality – TEEM
Conference is an event that studies the most significant
advances in this research area, in which the Engineering approach is always a key factor. From the last edition of this
event, TEEM 2014, that was held in the University of Salamanca in October 1-3, 2014, were selected seven papers that have extended and reviewed again. Three of these papers were finally accepted for publication in VAEP-RITA / IEEE RITA journal

García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.

Ramírez Montoya, María Soledad

Journal of Cases on Information Technology

English

[EN] Knowledge Society challenges and issues require of complex technological systems that may evolve and interoperate each other. This complexity means to reorganize
these systems as a set of components that may offer services,
interact and evolve in very different ways including capabilities such as adaptation and intelligent behaviors. Also, the users
should be considered as other important components of these so called technological ecosystems. The Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality – TEEM
Conference is an event that studies the most significant
advances in this research area, in which the Engineering approach is always a key factor. From the last edition of this
event, TEEM 2014, that was held in the University of Salamanca in October 1-3, 2014, were selected seven papers that have extended and reviewed again. Three of these papers were finally accepted for publication in VAEP-RITA / IEEE RITA journal

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iv   Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 17(1), iv-vi, January-March 2015Copyright © 2015, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited.ABSTRACTTEEM (Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality) Conference has the aim to deal with cur-rent complex problems regarding the Knowledge Society from a technological-based multicultural approach. This event is organized in thematic tracks in which ones different approaches and solutions are discussed. Educational innovation has been presented in all TEEM editions as a very key topic related to the way teach-ing and learning is tackled at this moment. Specifically, this special issue gathers four selected and extended papers from TEEM 2014 that present success educational cases that fully involve the use of technology in the educational processes from a multicultural perspective.Educational Innovation with a Multicultural PerspectiveFrancisco J. García-Peñalvo, Computer Science Department, Research Institute for Educational Sciences, GRIAL Research Group, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, SpainMaría Soledad Ramírez Montoya, School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, MexicoKeywords: Educational Innovation, Multiculturality, Teaching Cases, Technology and EducationINTRODUCTIONThis special issue is linked to 2014 Technologi-cal Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2014) Conference (García-Peñalvo, 2014d). This event was born in 2013 (García-Pe-ñalvo, 2013b) with the aim of joining researchers from very different knowledge areas to discuss about the solutions for the complex problems that current Knowledge Society (García-Peñal-vo, 2014c) is presenting; problems that need interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to be solved (García-Peñalvo, 2013a, 2015). TEEM Conference is organized in thematic tracks that allow organizing the debates in a more suitable way. Innovation in education has been always present as a central topic at this Conference (Fidalgo & Sein-Echaluce Lacleta, 2014; García-Valcárcel, Iglesias Rodríguez, & Mena Marco, 2013) and has been the seed to organize different thematic special issues about it (Fidalgo Blanco, 2014; García-Peñalvo, 2014a, 2014b; Sein-Echaluce Lacleta, Fidalgo Blanco, & García-Peñalvo, 2014).Current special issue presents four papers with success educational cases that fully in-volve the use of technology in the educational processes from a multicultural perspective. In the first paper (Parra-Santos & Castro, 2015) a learning-by-doing approach (Thompson, 2010) through a workshop in which different scaled down projects are accomplished by students. Students improve their understanding of the strong and weak points of the numerical models and gain an insight into the very complex topic of the fluid dynamics processes.GUEST EDITORIAl PREfACECopyright © 2015, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited.Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 17(1), iv-vi, January-March 2015   vThe second paper (Orozco Rodríguez, Mo-rales Morgado, & Gonçalves da Silva Cordeiro Moita, 2015) is authored by a multidisciplinary and international research team that involves pedagogic and mathematics areas to develop learning objects (Berlanga & García-Peñalvo, 2005) to help students to understand geometry abstract concepts. This has been done under an open knowledge approach (García-Peñalvo, García de Figuerola, & Merlo, 2010a, 2010b; Ramírez Montoya, 2015).The third paper (González et al., 2015) is supported by an interdisplinary team composed by computer science and physicians researchers. It presents the use of smartphone apps to teach Physics. The mobiles are used with a double sense, first as mLearning approach (Sánchez Prieto, Olmos Migueláñez, & García-Peñalvo, 2014) to complement the traditional learning and help students learn anytime and anywhere, and second as measurement devices (Chen, Kao, & Sheu, 2003) in physics experiments.The last paper (Pinto Llorente, Sánchez Gómez, & García-Peñalvo, 2015) combines pedagogical and technological knowledge to develop a blended learning solution (García-Peñalvo & Seoane Pardo, 2015) to learn English. The paper is focused on the learners’ perspec-tive and the fundamental qualities that they must have to study English via a hypermedia modular model and get their goals.ACKNOWlEDGMENTGuest editors would like to take this opportunity to thank authors who have contributed to this special issue. We would also like to acknowledge the help provided by the reviewers.REfERENCESBerlanga, A., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2005). Learn-ing Technology Specifications: Semantic Objects for Adaptive Learning Environments. International Journal of Learning Technology, 1(4), 458–472. doi:10.1504/IJLT.2005.007155Chen, Y. S., Kao, T. C., & Sheu, J. P. (2003). A mobile learning system for scaffolding bird watching learn-ing. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19(3), 347–359. doi:10.1046/j.0266-4909.2003.00036.xFidalgo, Á., & Sein-Echaluce Lacleta, M. L. (2014). Educational Innovation. In García-PeñalvoF. J. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multi-culturality (TEEM’14) (pp. 65-67). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2669711.2669880Fidalgo Blanco, Á. (2014). Innovación educativa en la sociedad del conocimiento. Education in the Knowledge Society, 15(3), 1–3.García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2013a). Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches. Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2101-5García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2013b). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM 2013. New York, USA: ACM.García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2014a). Educational Innova-tion Successful Cases – Part 2. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 16(4), iv–vii.García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2014b). Educational Innova-tion Successful Cases – Part I. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 16(3), 1–3. doi:10.4018/jcit.2014070101García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2014c). Managing the Knowl-edge Society Construction. International Journal of Knowledge Management, 10(4), iv–vii.García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2014d). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM 2014. New York, USA: ACM.García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2015). Engineering contri-butions into a Knowledge Society multicultural perspective. [IEEE RITA]. IEEE Revista Iberoameri-cana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje, 10(1), 17–18. doi:10.1109/RITA.2015.2391371García-Peñalvo, F. J., García de Figuerola, C., & Merlo, J. A. (2010a). Open knowledge management in higher education. Online Information Review, 34(4), 517–519.García-Peñalvo, F. J., García de Figuerola, C., & Merlo, J. A. (2010b). Open knowledge: Challenges and facts. Online Information Review, 34(4), 520–539. doi:10.1108/14684521011072963Copyright © 2015, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited.vi   Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 17(1), iv-vi, January-March 2015García-Peñalvo, F. J., & Seoane Pardo, A. M. (2015). Una revisión actualizada del concepto de eLearning. Décimo Aniversario. Education in the Knowledge Society, 16(1), 119–144. doi:10.14201/eks2015161119144García-Valcárcel, A., Iglesias Rodríguez, A., & Mena Marco, J. J. (2013). Educational Innova-tion. In García-PeñalvoF. J. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Techno-logical Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’13) (Salamanca, Spain, November 14-15, 2013) (pp. 401-404). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2536536.2536597González, M. Á., González, M. Á., Martín, M. E., Llamas, C., Martínez, Ó., Vegas, J., & Hernández, C. et al. (2015). Teaching and Learning Physics with Smartphones. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 17(1).Orozco Rodríguez, C., Morales Morgado, E. M., & Gonçalves da Silva Cordeiro Moita, F. (2015). Learning Objects and Geometric Representation for teaching “Definition and applications of geometric vector”. Journal of Cases on Information Technol-ogy, 17(1).Parra-Santos, M. T., & Castro, F. (2015). Bench-marking for practical training in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 17(1).Pinto Llorente, A. M., Sánchez Gómez, M. C., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2015). To be or not to be successful? That does not only depend on technol-ogy, but also on human factors. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 17(1).Ramírez Montoya, M. S. (2015). Acceso abierto y su repercusión en la Sociedad del Conocimiento: Reflexiones de casos prácticos en Latinoamérica. [EKS]. Education in the Knowledge Society, 16(1), 103–118. doi:10.14201/eks2015161103118Sánchez Prieto, J. C., Olmos Migueláñez, S., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2014). Understanding mobile learning: Devices, pedagogical implications and research lines. Education in the Knowledge Society, 15(1), 20–42.Sein-Echaluce Lacleta, M. L., Fidalgo Blanco, Á., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2014). Buenas prácticas de Innovación Educativa: Artículos seleccionados del II Congreso Internacional sobre Aprendizaje, Innovación y Competitividad, CINAIC 2013. RED. Revista de Educación a Distancia(44).Thompson, P. (2010). Learning by Doing. In B. H. Hall & N. Rosenberg (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (Vol. 1, pp. 429–476). Oxford, UK: North-Holland. doi:10.1016/S0169-7218(10)01010-5Francisco J. García-Peñalvo holds a PhD in Computer Science (2000, University of Salamanca). He works as a Professor in Computer Science Department of the USAL. He is the GRIAL Group head. He was Technol-ogy and Innovation pro-Chancellor of the USAL in charge of the definition, planning and development of the USAL technical management strategy based on Open Source solutions. He has leaded MIH, TRAILER and VALS European projects. Now, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Technology Research and the Education in the Knowledge Society Journal. Besides he is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary PhD Programme on Education in the Knowledge Society.María Soledad Ramírez Montoya is Director of the Research Chair in the Group of Innovation in Technology and Education in Tecnológico de Monterrey x (ITESM). She majored in Elementary Education, earning a BSc in Education in the Technological Institute of Sonora in Mexico; and then graduating in Educational Technology with a PhD in Education and Educational Psychology: Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Salamanca (Spain), where she is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

Educational Innovation with a Multicultural Perspective

TEEM (Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality) Conference has the aim to deal with cur - rent complex problems regarding the Knowledge Society from a technological-based multicultural approach. This event is organized in thematic tracks in which ones different approaches and solutions are discussed. Educational innovation has been presented in all TEEM editions as a very key topic related to the way teach - ing and learning is tackled at this moment. Specifically, this special issue gathers four selected and extended papers from TEEM 2014 that present success educational cases that fully involve the use of technology in the educational processes from a multicultural perspective

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Ramírez Montoya, María S.

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