Theme II: Collaboratories, Cyberinfrastructure, and Virtual Organizations

This theme focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating accessible cyberinfrastructure, collaboratories, and virtual organizations to support geographically distributed collaboration at national and international levels. Based on an applied, use-inspired research technique, this theme presents and studies blended learning approaches that involves the strategic and principled use of information and communications technologies to create "centers without walls" and the widespread use of information and communication technologies to facilitate geographically distributed collaboration by social scientists and humanities scholars.
 
Research Question: What are the factors influencing models of globally distributed accessible cyberlearning?