Research based learning in

research based networks

Ingrid Melve, Uninett CTO

BNC: 2010-11-19

Where do I come from

Uninett in Norway <5 million persons Long country, fjords Distributed population,

distributed higher education

Extensive university collaboration

UNINETT on campus 1980s-1992: Internet to higher education

Internet= router + server (Samson)

1994-1998: Multi-campus college (KOMPAKT)

Internet= routers + infrastructure 1999- : Administrative systems

Deploying shared systems 2006-2009: Campus networks (GigaCampus)

Internet = routers + campus network, BCP

UNINETT on campus - now

High bandwidth into campuses across the country

2003- : Feide (Federated IDEntity for Education)

2010- : @campus, Best Current PracticesSIP, network monitoring, cabling requirements

2010- : eCampus in research and learning

Overview

eCampus in Norway Infrastructure for collaborationSupport for teaching, learning and exploring

Social trends Technological trends Ecosystem of online services

What do we do now? Why? Adaption

Why do Uninett eCampus?

We were asked to: there is a need Our job to ensure

things work across networkstandardization and national collaborationsharing of best practicecost efficiency

Connecting campuses to the world

eCampus program

First tasks focus on lectures Lecture capture Web meeting and video conferences Sharing best practices ICT architecture

Goals:Lectures shared (in group or open)Distance collaborationMobile solutions

National collaboration Collaboration, organization and sharing is

high on the political agenda Video meetings are useful for multi-campus Distance education is increasing Courses cross organizational boundaries

Standardizing solutions eases integration Open solutions create interaction

Define shared architecture for solution space Student wave requires new thinking to

scale up education facilities

Media production Distribution

Digital

Organizational foundation

DigitalTechnological foundation

Ownership and usage

competence competence

Lecturer

mobilemeta data markupeditingcapture

auditorium,video conference

and retrieval

conversionstorage and archivelicensingsupport for search

LMS, VLEpodcast, RSSstreaming

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Learning environmentPedagogic support

Classes, courses, student groups

Students

Standards, data formats, meta data formatsEquipment, work flow

Media management

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Society benefits Better use of the resources for developing and

presenting teaching materialsLecturers matter!

Adapting to changes in society, better flexibility: restructuring university sector

Knowledge and competence increase productivityOpen lectures online is one tool

Increased collaboration Green IT, stop climate change

University and faculty benefits Collaboration give higher yields Easy to collaborate across distance Building good learning environments Ubiquitous access opens education

independent of geography Easier to share information, transparency and

open information is visible Preserve resources for reference and further

use in institution

Student benefits Power of choice: more courses with higher

quality Access: repeat lecture at will, presence,

facilitate communication Everyday ICT for digital natives, web2.0 Easy access to research materials and text

books Student parliaments want podcast today All students have “special” needs

What has eCampus learned?

We have the tools to make a change Collaboration and transparency Digital natives demand more, and faster People look to us to do collaboration and deliver

concrete services Universal access to services is vital Innovators and early adopters are not the

majority of our users

Student lessons It is not only our network anymore Students bring open free services inside our

institutions (and our security domains) Universities: stability, neutrality and trust Students come with a Internet past

Know their tools Tailor solutions to the needs of universities (and students)

Students mutate We cannot predict wishes We may predict their needs in learning and research

eCampus services

Working groups on AV equipment, web meetings and lecture capture

Web meetings: interim solution, planning Call for Tender

CloudStor for sharing big files Pilot for lecture capture: Opencast, podcast etc MCU for video conferences Supporting groups and collaboration, testing

concepts and integration with federated identity

What changed usage of tech?

Age of the Ego I want my 15 minutes of fame Personalization of services Web2.0: instant gratification

Age of Sharing Sharing content as if there was no tomorrow Social networks

Age of Security Risk conscious, on the institution side Portals, giving one single consistent world view

Digital Native is a state of mind

Attitude towards technology ...of course I can! Willing to leave Willing to try (and fail a bit) Digital self confidence

Familiarity with technology I was born with this...

Internet and other digital media takes many (3-7) hours every day

Digital competence aspects

Research based education

Lecture hall style Stand in auditorium, students listen and makes notes

Remote education, life long learning Collaboration tools

Teaching research participation Data intensive, students gather and process data Collaborative, participation International collaboration Publications

Open Education: sharing and participation Open Access is mandatory for research papers Open Courseware is not yet mandatory for university lectures

ICT questions from the past 3 months

How do we span time and space? Is video conference and formal studio recordings the only answer?

Student PCs and Macs are out of control, can I get them to comply with security audits?

How many scientific papers and citations do we get per MW used on HPC and Grids?

If Facebook can XXXX, why not my university? If we capture 40% of the lectures, will students learn

better? Lecturers teach better? Why cannot anyone publish material on a university wiki

with the university logo? Are you going to put me on the Internet? At my age?

Technological trends

General trends Time to delivery gets shorter Cloud computing Web2.0 Exponential growth is natural, network effects rule

Federated identity in higher education Collaboration tools coming of age

Interaction and action rules the Internet Always online, availability of network Mobile devices on every body

Federated Identity

Ties person to institution in an ephemeral world of clouds and collaboration

Support for attributes: what do we need to know about you?

Enables cloud computing Removes user database from service

Interesting pilots Groups and roles, enabling universal access Integration with social networks

It is when people stop thinking of something as a piece of technology that the thing starts to have its biggest impact. Wheels, wells, books, spectacles were all once wonders of the world; now they are everywhere, and we can't live without them. John Lanchester

Ecosystem of online services

At large sites in the cloud At shared sites, small and large Inside your university

Formally acknowledged and funded Underground (and client side)

It does not have to be perfect, just good enough KISS and tell

keep it simple, and share

Technology moving away from campus

IT expectations do not move away from campus

IT departments go from providing boxes to collaboration and processes Do not fall into the administrative trap Learning, teaching and research are

critical Skill set for IT people is expanding Digital Natives are nice people :)

Technology went away from campus

To open providers, with free services Into the cloud No control over user devices

PC or Mac Phone or iPad

IT department focus on standards and ready made solutions not innovation and education processes

The power of expectations

Tabula rasa days for campus ICT are over Students are not blank minds Student parliaments want podcast

Students are digital natives (Just in Time), faculty are digital immigrants (planning and analysis)

How do we adjust to user expectations?

Web meetings

Scenarios Meetings (faculty and staff) Lectures (lecturer and students) Ad hoc collaboration (research project, study groups)

Available for everyone in higher education Enabled by federated ID

Network effect Rollout, training, user support

Guidance from working group and user community systematically revisit our choices

Lecture capture(and other recordings)

Why? All students are specialSpanning distanceSpanning timeRevisiting highlights of learning materials

How? Piloting various solutionsLow end lecture capture (individual on laptop)Automated (institution, industrial scale)Opencast (Matterhorn and MediaMosa)

Summing up

Students expectations has changed Service delivery has changed

Federated Identity is crucial We need to support learning processes

Collaboration is key to successLecture capture is key element

Sharing is good for us

Contact

ingrid.melve@uninett.no The eCampus work in Norway

http://blog.ecampus.no Twitter: ecampusnorge as digital natives, we are open for

collaboration :)