Distributed computing education, Part 1: A special case?

Governments and other funding agencies are interested in developing e-infrastructure distributed computing education and training programs. Realization of e-infrastructure benefits require two concurrent and coordinate advances such as the educational progress and a steady improvement in the facilities, tools, and ease to use of the pervasive e-infrastructure. E-infrastructure supports and promotes the transition to knowledge-based economies and expands capacities and capabilities, providing a platform for innovation in industry and academic research. The aspects of distributed computing such as scale and collaboration in teaching environments need to be considered while moving from prototype to production. It is found that the teaching environment must support not only the collaborative efforts in creating and running e-infrastructure but also collaborative approaches to distributed teaching.