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Virtual campus hub
The document outlines a proposal for a Virtual Campus Hub that would allow universities and research organizations to more easily collaborate across borders through a shared technological platform, demonstrating functionality like video conferencing, access to learning materials, and exchange of program data, with the goal of boosting integration in sustainable energy education, research, and innovation. Key infrastructure needs include federated authentication, group management, and standards for exchanging user and program information between different university systems.
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- 1. Virtual Campus Hub FrankVercoulen Education and Student Service Center Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) 1
- 2. Virtual Campus Hub− Participants Institute Acronym Leading staff Søren Salomo Technical University of Denmark DTU Merete Badger Royal Institute of Torsten Fransson KTH Technology, Sweden Laura Farinetti Politecnico di Torino, Italy Polito Fulvio Corno Eindhoven University of Frank Vercoulen TU/e Technology, Netherlands
- 3. Indirect partners: NRENfederations NREN’s involved: • SURFfederatie (Surfnet, NL) • WAYF (Forskningsnettet, DK) • SWAMID (SUnet, SE) • IDEM (GARR, IT) + eduGAIN (inter-federation) 04-10-2012 3
- 4. Context: Cross-border collaborationin education, research and innovation Examples in the energy field: • KIC InnoEnergy, Virtual organization of universities and SMEs • SEEIT: Strategic partnership for sustainable energy • Explore Energy: Gateway for life-long learning 04-10-2012 4
- 5. Context: Cross-border jointprograms Example is Select MSc: • Network with many partners, incl. industry • Students change location in Y2 • Integrated project: Student groups with members from all locations • Optional courses at other locations through distance learning Other example: Post educational course on wind energy (WAsP) by DTU. 04-10-2012 5
- 6. Problem Universities have anincreasing number of and increasingly diverse relations with the outside world, but ICT is still inward looking Barriers for access, collaboration and data exchange across institutions and companies Everybody has plenty of tools available, but using them across an institution’s border is cumbersome Labour-intensive workarounds offer far from perfect solutions Change in ICT strategy needed: From outsiders as ”aliens” toward varying levels of access, depending on what you know about someone. 04-10-2012 6
- 7. Virtual Campus Hub− Objectives Why? To boost integration of research, innovation and education in sustainable energy. How? Through delivery of a working concept for a Virtual Campus Hub ready to be implemented at partner universities, research organizations with links to industries, businesses, and innovation parks.
- 8. Virtual Campus Hub− Components 1. A technological concept for the virtual campus hub 2. A pilot platform to demonstrate how a virtual campus hub might work in practice 3. A set of documented best practices 4. An inventory of staff competence and experience in supporting international collaboration with ICT
- 9. What does aVirtual Campus Hub consist of? Virtual Campus Hub: • Functionalities • Infrastructure • Presentation in portal 04-10-2012 9
- 10. VCH functionalities: Collaboration environment and conference room Collaboration environment / conference room (TU/e) • Meeting room (videoconference / desktop conference) • Sharing and storing files • Presence info: who can be contacted? • Calendaring: when can meetings be planned? • (Organization of support) Infrastructure challenges in cross border collaboration: • Access collaboration applications of each other (e.g. Sharepoint, Lync) • Enable external group management across borders • Exchange presence info from different sources (Adobe Connect, MS Lync, Facebook, etc.) • Exchange calendar info 04-10-2012 10
- 11. Conference room processesand functionality Process Functionality Subfunction Organization and planning Calendar Announcement Registration Video lecture or conference Video Livestream On-demand stream Download file Desktop sharing Interactivity Voice Chat / messaging Maximum number of users Presenter in control Attendee requirements Client Account Smartphone access Attendee invitation function After the lecture or Upload lectures / presentations conference Upload other course materials Access lectures / presentations Access other course materials General discussion Collaborate on assignments Not in realtime In realtime 04-10-2012 11
- 12. VCH functionalities: Accessto learning materials Access to learning materials (KTH, DTU) • Interactive learning materials • Exercises Infrastructure challenges • Access to learning management systems of each other • ID-mapping needed when LMS is integrated with administrative systems • (possibly) Enable external group management • For participation in post educational courses and for coaching in regular courses by people from industry, access for company employees is needed 04-10-2012 12
- 13. Remote laboratory (KTH) Theremote laboratory is operated and monitored on-distance for real-time experiments and collection of measurement data. The exercise is combined with on-line self-assessments and pre-tests, all 100% automatically corrected. No need for teachers to provide supervision or correction of exercises. Experimental Network Setup Camera WWW Control and monitoring of the experiment Exp. Control Web Server
- 14. Examination Tools (KTH) On-lineexamination tools for 100% automatic correction through LMS (KTH Bilda or Moodle)
- 15. Post educational courseon wind energy (DTU) Course materials and interaction through LMS (It’s Learning from external SP)
- 16. VCH functionalities: Virtualcoffee house Virtual coffee house (TU/e, KTH) • Online meeting environment / social network for distributed population (cf. Select MSc program) • Members want to use their “work account”, not their “private account” Infrastructure challenges: • Enable federated authentication for social networks (cf. Google Apps pilot by Surfnet) • (possibly) Enable external group management 04-10-2012 16
- 17. Virtual coffee housefor Select MSc Example of experiment with virtual coffee house for Select MSc 04-10-2012 17
- 18. VCH functionalities: Exchangeof program data Exchange of program data (TU/e) • Course information • Scheduling information • Grades • News Infrastructure challenges • Design of an exchange and routing mechanism • ID-mapping for non-public data • Define exchange standards (e.g RS3G, IMS) 04-10-2012 18
- 19. VCH functionalities: Virtualincubator Virtual incubator (PoliTo) • Enable close contacts between universities and industry • Stimulate entrepreneurship and “matching” Infrastructure challenges • Involve industry in research and education activities • Access for people in industry to VCH is needed 04-10-2012 19
- 20. Virtual Campus HubInfrastructure Virtual Campus Hub Infrastructure: • Federated authentication • Group management • ID-mapping • Exchange of presence and calendaring info • Exchange of program data 04-10-2012 20
- 21. VCH Presentation: Coherentview in portal with reusable components Portal • Services from partners and external SPs must be presented as a coherent whole to the end user • Partners often involved in different partnerships, so components must also be used in other partnership portals and/or be embedded in the own home portal Presentation layer challenges • Setup portal based on general standard (in this case OpenSocial) • Services presented through (reusable) gadgets (cf. Surfconext portal) 04-10-2012 21
- 22. Example of demoportal with reusable components (gadgets) 24-10-2011 22
- 23. Challenges Géant infrastructure: • Enable federated authentication across borders EduGain, SurfFederatie, • Enable value-added services (VAS) across borders WAYF, Swamid, IDEM Group management ID-mapping Exchange of presence and calendaring info Local institutions or • Provide identities across borders via NRENs (IdP) companies: • Connect applications to the national hub (SP) DTU, KTH, PoliTo, TU/e • Enable applications for relevant VAS • Develop (simple) reusable gadgets for own VCH applications TU/e (but others may • Setup demo portal and incorporate (reusable) setup own portals as well) gadgets developed Local institutions with • Design of a exchange mechanism for program data Géant as hub? (e.g. course information, student results) 24-10-2011 23
- 24. Enabling cross bordercollaboration Possible architectures to realize cross border connections for VCH through NREN federations and eduGAIN 24-10-2011 24