E-learning is starting to play a major role in the learning and teaching activities at institutions of higher education worldwide. The students perform significant parts of their study activities decentralized and access the necessary information sources via the Internet. Several tools have been developed providing basic infrastructures that enable individual and collaborative work in a locatio...

National electronic identification systems (e-IDs) are key e-government infrastructures that form the backbone of e-government services. When developed via public-private partnerships (PPP), such e-government infrastructures require appropriate governance arrangements to sustain a delicate balance between governments and the private actors involved. Using the lens of power dependence theory, we...

Collaborative learning has proven to be a successful method in traditional classroom settings. Computersupported collaborative learning (CSCL) is regarded a new paradigm in educational technology. Nevertheless, in the context of infrastructures for lifelong learning little attention is paid to collaboration. In this paper we provide an analysis of lifelong learning with respect to collaborative...

Research evaluation should take into account the intended scholarly and non-scholarly audiences of the research output. This holds too for research infrastructures, which often aim at serving a large variety of audiences. With research and research infrastructures moving to the web, new possibilities are emerging for evaluation metrics. This paper proposes a feasible indicator for measuring the...

the steady growing innovations in the area of information and communication technology have raised new concepts and possibilities in different life aspects. in the field of further education and professional training, electronic learning and web-based education are perhaps the most prominent ones. proponents of this technology claim that e-learning courses are at least as effective as correspon...

This paper is focused on a new mode called pervasive learning which relies on the potential of new IT infrastructures able to provide dynamic adaptations of information contents and services according to various contexts. Using our previous experiences in the design and implementation of multichannel accesses to services (mobile-commerce or e-learning) we have designed a new infrastructure, bas...