Presentation of the paper “Learning services-based technological 
ecosystems” 
Francisco J. García-Peñalvo 
Departamento de Informática y 
Automática, Universidad de 
Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain 
fgarcia@usal.es 
 
 
Ángel Fidalgo-Blanco 
Departamento de Matemática 
Aplicada y Métodos Informáticos, 
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 
Madrid, Spain 
angel.fidalgo@upm.es 
 
 
Faraón Llorens-Largo 
Departamento de Ciencia de la 
Computación e Inteligencia 
Artificial, Universidad de Alicante, 
Alicante, Spain 
faraon.llorens@ua.es
Ángel Hernández-García 
Departamento de Ingeniería de 
Organización, Administración de 
Empresas y Estadística, Universidad 
Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 
angel.hernandez@upm.es 
 
María L. Sein-Echaluce 
Departamento de Matemática 
Aplicada 
Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 
Spain 
mlsein@unizar.es 
 
 
 
Santiago Iglesias-Pradas 
Departamento de Ingeniería de 
Organización, Administración de 
Empresas y Estadística, Universidad 
Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 
s.iglesias@upm.es 
Miguel Á. Conde 
Departamento de Ingenierías 
Mecánica, Informática y 
Aeroespacial, Universidad de León, 
León, Spain 
mcong@unileon.es 
 
 
Marc Alier 
Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis 
i Sistemes d’Informació, Universitat 
Politècnica de Catalunya,  
Barcelona, Spain 
marc.alier@upc.edu 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Abstract 
This is the presentation of the paper entitled “Learning services-based technological 
ecosystems” in the TEEM 2015 International Conference held in Porto (Portugal) in 
October 7-9, 2015. 
 
The gap between technology and learning methods has two important implications: on 
the one hand, we should not expect the integration of technological advances into 
teaching to be an easy task; and there is a danger that mature educational technologies 
and methods might not give an adequate answer to the demands and needs of society, 
underusing their transforming potential to improve learning processes. This study 
discusses the need for a new technological environment supporting learning services, 
and proposes the concept of the technological learning ecosystem as a solution to both 
problems. Educational ecosystems should be able to break the technological constraints 
of existing learning platforms and achieve an effective improvement in learning 
processes. Our proposed educational ecosystems pivot around five specific lines of 
action: 1) a framework architecture that supports learning service-based ecosystems; 2) 
learning analytics for educational decision making; 3) adaptive knowledge systems; 4) 
gamification of learning processes; 5) semantic portfolios to collect evidence of 
learning. 
 
The presented paper may be cited as:  
 
García-Peñalvo, F. J., Hernández-García, Á., Conde-González, M. Á., Fidalgo-Blanco, 
Á., Sein-Echaluce Lacleta, M. L., Alier-Forment, M., Llorens-Largo, F., & 
Iglesias-Pradas, S. (2015). Learning services-based technological ecosystems. In 
G. R. Alves & M. C. Felgueiras (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International 
Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality 
(TEEM’15) (Porto, Portugal, October 7-9, 2015) (pp. 467-472). New York, 
USA: ACM. 
 
Link to the presentation 
http://www.slideshare.net/grialusal/learning-servicesbased-technological-ecosystems  
 
Keywords 
Educational ecosystems; Technological learning ecosystems; Learning services; 
Learning analytics; Knowledge management; Gamification; Informal learning; 
Semantic portfolios; Cloud computing; Interoperability. 
 
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