Editorial of the special issue: Service-Learning in Digital Technology Environments

Abstract

Service-Learning is a pedagogical approach, an experiential teaching methodology and a strategy of solidarity commitment with the community that allows students to work on real needs of the environment in order to improve it. Digital technology has been incorporated into Service-Learning by mediating the projects, facilitating their development and supporting the processes. But it also gives new meanings to what we thought was relegated to the local, face-to-face space, making new approaches or frameworks necessary that integrate the different approaches to what is commonly known as virtual Service-Learning.

In this special issue we have thirteen articles covering different types of studies, both theoretical and applied. Included are Service-Learning projects that make use of social networks, digital applications and other communication technologies that have been developed at different educational levels from early childhood education to university. The service has been carried out in different fields such as inclusive education or health, among others. The collected works contribute to increase knowledge, improve training, facilitate transfer and promote the institutionalisation of Service-Learning and are a good reflection of the growing interest in Service-Learning in technological environments.