The Education and Information Technology 2013: A Selection of AACE Award Papers is compiled of 15 award winning papers from AACE'sconferences (http: //AACE. org/conf). This year's selection includes papers from the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) in Austin (TX), World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-Media) in Denver (CO) and World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn) in Montreal (Canada). The decision to nominate a conference paper for an award was made by peer reviewers. All authors were honored during the conference and received a certificate that serves as testimony to their outstanding research and contribution to the conference. This AACE book groups the award winning papers into four parts. These four parts provide a timely overview and record of topics that are of primary interest in educational technology this year.

Welcome to the proceedings of the inaugural Symposium on Collective Intelligence (COLLIN 2010). This was the first of a new series of events that will evolve over the coming years, and we were happy to hold the event in Hagen where the idea for this symposium was born. The participants visited Hagen in April, with excellent opportunities to get rain, wind and sun. Collective intelligence denotes a phenomenon according to which the purposeful interaction between individuals creates intelligent solutions and behaviors that might not have come to existence without this concerted effort of a community. The members of such communities form a social network, typically over the Internet. They are engage with each other over a sustained period of time to develop an area of innovation through collaboration and exchange of ideas, experiences and information. Leading-edge information and communication technologies (ICT) offer ample opportunities for enabling collective intelligence. COLLIN aims to become the flagship conference in the areas collective intelligence and ICT-enabled social networking, which is attracting more and more researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry.