| Abstract: | Organizations during the last decade tend to form more and more various types of inter-organizational networks in order to produce complex products and services by combining their resources and capabilities. In the public sector two basic types of inter-organizational collaboration networks are gradually formed: Government-to-Government (G2G) collaboration networks and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). This paper analyses the basic objectives, research directions and methodologies of the ERMIONE (E-Learning Resource Management Service for InterOperability Networks in the European Cultural Heritage Domain) project; the basic objective of this project is to create (up to the level of pilots), study, evaluate and market validate an eRM (e-learning Resource Management) service, which offers an electronic environment that facilitates and supports both G2G collaborations and PPPs in the cultural heritage domain. In particular, it will support the collaborative development, promotion and delivery of composite digital content and e-courses concerning the European cultural heritage, through collaboration among many public and private cultural heritage institutions (e.g. museums, galleries, libraries, archives, etc.), educational institutions (e.g. Universities), commercial promotion companies, ICT companies, etc., from all over Europe. Furthermore, it will offer to learners, teachers and researchers, who are interested in digital content and e-courses concerning the European cultural heritage, an ‘electronic-one-stop-shop’ and an asynchronous e-learning environment. Special emphasis is laid on the description of the multi-stakeholder methodology we have developed for the evaluation of this service, which is based on an extension of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) |
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