What is e-research?
Generally speaking "e-research" is research practices enabled by the combination of:
• shared computational power;
• distributed access to large databases; and
• virtual environments for collaborative research work.
Here, you can find the Australian DEST definition of e-research.
E-science in UK and cyberinfrastructure in the US virtually mean the same as E-research in Australia. E-research is not a new research area or a new research method. Rather it is a set of possibilities to extend, enhance, enable, empower, extend, etc. research in all existing research domains and all research methods.
Over the last five years, there were many profound governmental attempts to embrace 'e' across various academic disciplines. Here are some such examples from ‘soft’ disciplines: e-social sciences (UK), e-humanities (NL) and arts (US).
How has ‘e’ contributed to the educational research? If you know such examples, "Comment" section is yours ;).