Digital Ecosystems in Higher Education

Dear Colleagues,

Natural ecosystems are a suitable metaphor to understand some digital environments. Thereby, a living natural ecosystem refers to a community of interactive organisms together with their physical environment.

In recent years, in the educational context, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have brought important changes to the educational field, generating the appearance of networks, applications and new tools, giving rise to true digital ecosystems. In this way, a digital ecosystem is a socio-technical system whose operation is based on the properties of self-organization, scalability, and sustainability to achieve greater traffic, interaction and user loyalty.

Likewise, a digital learning ecosystem refers to the open, wide, and dynamic interconnection environment, where individual users and intervening agents are the components that contribute to the creation and consumption of digital information. In other words, a digital learning ecosystem is linked to extended and interconnected environments in the field of education, in which its own components exchange information digitally.

Concisely, digital learning ecosystems based on various organisms that interact together in an environment are designed to respond to the different types of teaching supported by the student as the center of the process and where all the factors that affect the process converge teaching and learning.

The main objective of the Special Issue "Digital Ecosystems in Higher Education" is to publish high-quality articles covering all fields of Higher Education. Its scope includes the study and analysis of experiences and relevant contributions related to learning strategies in digital ecosystems, both from a theoretical and methodological point of view that define this field of research, in addition to the theories that describe it.

Dr. Mariana-Daniela González-Zamar
Dr. Emilio Abad-Segura
Guest Editors

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