From e-Learning to e-Research:Building Collaborative Virtual Research Environments Using Sakai
作者单位：STFC e-Science Centre Daresbury Laboratory
会议名称：《2007年国际电子商务、工程及科学领域的分布式计算和应用学术研讨会》
会议日期：2007年
学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 081203[工学-计算机应用技术] 08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）]
关 键 词：E-Research Virtual research environment Portlet JSR 168 Web Services for Remote Portlets
摘 要：Aiming at providing teachers and students virtual learning environments (VLE), e-Learning systems are today widely adopted in educational systems. These e-Learning systems provide a set of services so that teachers and students can communicate through the Web easily. In this paper, we are going to describe how such an e-Learning system can be adopted to support research activities. Scientists are now facing increasingly complex challenges. To meet these challenges, there is need to support research activities using the latest information technology. Since VLE systems are becoming more and more mature, they are natural candidates for building virtual research environments (VRE) systems to support both researchers and administrators involved in research. In this paper, we will discuss how existing e-Learning systems can be converted to VRE systems to support research. In particular, a Sakai based VRE system will be discussed to present what this e-Learning based VRE system can bring to researchers and their supporting staff and to increase their productivity.