EduCloud - Estonia Business Dev meeting 19.9.2014

OKM & COSS took some Finnish companies to Estonia for a visit to create bridge between Finnish and Estonian EDU companies. Counter visit later this fall.

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1. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
   EduCloud
   Jarkko Moilanen, jarkko.moilanen@minedu.fi
   

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2. Open source
   and open
   APIs
   

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3. Not about code – its about transparency
   • 100% open source - code and documentation in Github
   • Backlog in the web – Trello.com
   • Public Weekly Development Meetings starting 22.9.2014
   – Main tool to keep everyone aware of tasks and progress
   – Recorded Adobe Connect sessions
   – In Finnish, but tendency towards English (Estonians on board?)
   • Public LinkedIn group (210+ members)
   • Twitter as main information channel
   • Presentations available via speakerdeck.com
   

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4. Closed educational
   resources
   Electronic learning
   environment
   - moodle, edison, fronter, peda.net yms.
   Open Educational
   Resources
   Traditional learning material
   in different form
   DIGITAL
   School environment
   Web-based tools/services,
   closed and open
   ANALOG
   

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5. Learning materials and services – look forward
    electrinic books, video material, exercises
    gamified practice material, tests
    learning environmenta,
    learning material packages,
    webcasts,
    group working tools
    and why not the traditional books and alike
   

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6. Services for teachers
    Bazaar, ”Amazon of learning material” https://demo.pilvivayla.fi
    Commenting and likes (peer review)
    Search, buy, share, advertise, ”OPS2016 compatible”
    Products both commercial and non-commercial, open and closed
    KnowHow service https://kysy.pilvivayla.fi
    Extension to Facebook groups; peer support driven permanent knowledge base
    Learning recipes (2015)
    How to use cloud based services pedagogically wisely? Compare to thingiverse.com
    Virtual group working space (2015)
    for teachers and pedagogy developers
    Local groups for educational technologists?
   

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7. Services for service providers
    Open APIs for adding and updating material and services
    Common standards
    Feedback channel, interaction plaza, ”API” to consumers
    Information about usage/buys/views…
    License management (2015)
    Transaction management (2015)
    Unified way to operate
    brings security, stability, easier to integrate, less costs
   

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8. Role management has to be build for EDU
    Will extend the national identity of every citizen (X-Road)
    Pilot – jointly build example of role management on EDU sector
    Ministry of Education, CSC, National Board of Education + consortium
   companies
    Will utlize existing Opintopolku service OID identity service.
    Build open source -> part of EduCloud code base
    Role information retrieved from LMS, not from local student
   management services
    Will be done before pilot (23.10.2014)
   

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9. Authentication rampup
    Single Sign On
    Users: EduCloud, LMS, Opintopolku….developed for EDU sector needs
    Joint effort
    Ministry of Finance & Ministry of Communication & Ministry of Education
    Shared roadmap finalized November
    Ministry of Education: EduCloud focuses on social media auth + explors new
   authentication methods (bracelet etc)
    Strong authentication from national X-Road attached solutions, including mobile
   ID
   

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10. Auth Stack Roadmap
    10/2014
    Some auth (13+)
    12/2014 2/2015 6/2015
    4/2015
    8/2014 8/2015
    Mobile auth (15+)
    2015
    MePIN Dongle based authentication (4+)
    Bracelet authentication (15+)
    Strong
    Weak
    In use
    In use
    Ready
    In use
    Bracelet authentication (4+) In use
    HAKA (15+) In use
    In use
    

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11. Narrow Short Pilot
     Pilot launch 22.10.2014, Tampere – YOU ARE INVITED!
     Focus on elementary school (inner onion)
     Free learning material from commercial providers + National Library
     Other free material (”OER”)
     Possibly office applications – Libre Office
     A few high schools and universities (outer onion)
     Testing available for all, LMS + identity management integration for inner onion
    only
     Limited time 23.10 – 5.12.2014
     10-20 schools, different LMS, around Finland, Finnish and Swedish
     Extending to higher/lower education up to the material and a few tweaks in UX/UI
    

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12. Less fiddling,
    more learning
    EduCoud Alliance
    @pilvivayla
    

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13. Joint development 2015
    • Essential to find a way to cooperate effectively
    • Define concrete model for technological co-operation
    – X-Road and
    – EduCloud under one roadmap/model
    • 4 times / year 1 day workshop (IRL)
    • Once a year 1 bigger dev & business conference?
    • Monthly webinars, connect.funet.fi/educloud
    – Andres Kütt & Jarkko Moilanen
    – Practical information sharing, integration patterns etc
    • In Finland: Ministry of Finance (?) and Ministry of Education
    

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