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11 Rev. U. Soc. Conocimiento 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/intjedth11 and id is 1 raw text is: http://rusc.uoc.edu It is a pleasure to presentthe first issue ofVolume 11 of RUSC. Universitiesand Knowledge SocietyJournal, which includes important contributions to our field of knowledge: e-learning and universities in the network society. There are 9 articles in the Research Articles Section and 6 in the Special Section. The works are by authors from 20 educational institutions in 6 countries. Once again, the journal is making an open, global and integrative contribution by disseminating the results of research into education and technology that is being conducted in various parts of the world. The Special Section of this issue contains articles that analyse and evaluate the use of learning apps for mobile devices in higher education. It is a highly topical issue that, in recent years and months, has been the focus of numerous studies. The Special Section was coordinated by Professor Mohamed Ally, a renowned researcher in this field from the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University, Canada, and Dr Josep Prieto, a researcher in the Mobility, Multimedia and Multidevice innovation group (mUOC) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain. Both are experts in the field of learning apps for mobile devices, and we are very grateful to them for their support and involvement in the Special Section. Mobile devices - tablets and smartphones - have become increasingly prominent in higher education over the past decade. We are in the era of mobility, of the ability to access information and learning anywhere thanks to mobile devices and learning apps designed specifically for them. This opens up an important field of research for education in general and for universities in particular. RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal has therefore sought to bring knowledge to the scientific community by disseminating the works presented in the Special Section. In their introductory article to it, Professor Ally and Dr Prieto give an overview of the state of the art of mobile learning, or m-learning. The Special Section contains contributions like the one by Rius, Claris6 and Masip that reports on the results of a study conducted at the UOC on the use of learning apps for mobile devices by students on bachelor's degree courses. Their study explores the use of various m-learning technologies, the students' involvement in the development and use of apps, and the institution's views and exploitation of them thanks to open source code. Gibran Alejandro Garcia, RUSCVOL. 11 No 1 UniversitatOberta de Catalunya and University of New England I Barcelona, January 2014 I ISSN 1698-580X Editorial

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