What Can Studies of e-Learning Teach Us about Collaboration in e-Research?
E-Research is intended to facilitate collaboration through distributed access to content, tools, and services. Findings from two large, long-term digital library research projects are used to illustrate ways in which access to such resources does and does not facilitate collaboration. Both the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Project (ADEPT) and Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) project on data management leverage scientific research data for use in teaching. Two types of collaboration are considered: direct collaboration, in which faculty work together, and indirect or serial collaboration, in which faculty use or contribute shared content such as teaching resources, ontologies, or research data. Implications for collaboration in e-Research are divided into five categories: (1) differences in use based on discipline or specialty, (2) incentives to use e- Learning and e-Research technologies, (3) differences in use of information by role, (4) selecting and sharing of infor
