Learning 2.0 & OpenIDMiles Metcalfe @mmetcalfe

The take-away

If you are building a web application...

And you anticipate learners amongst your customers

Be an OpenID relying party.

Decentralised, light-weight protocol for single sign-on and portable identity

Standards based, open source system for single sign-on across or within

organisational boundaries. Sites can make informed

authorisation decisions for individual access of

protected online resources

OpenID in the wild

Many “smaller” Web 2.0 services are OpenID relying parties.

Notably, so too is Facebook.

More “brand names” are OpenID identity providers.

Educational Institutions

Educational institutions already collect and manage identity.

Becoming an identity provider for them is trivial.

Becoming a relying party is transformative.

Why is this important?

Thanks – 谢谢