Guest Editorial Grid Education and Grid-Based Technologies Applied to Education: Ongoing Activities

The four articles in this special section are devoted to grid education and grid-based technologies applied to education. The articles cover the following topics: grid educational material and infrastructure suitable for classroom use; a suite of pedagogical resources to enable an instructor to embed grid computing topics in an undergraduate distributed systems course curriculum; a remote laboratory for the execution of experiments on a Globus-based grid environment; and a grid-based system accessible through a Web portal for the automated management and grading of programming assignments.