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Virtual Campus Hub
Frank VercoulenEducation and Student Service CenterEindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
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Virtual Campus Hub − Participants
Institute Acronym Leading staff
Technical University of Denmark DTU Søren SalomoMerete Badger
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden KTH Torsten Fransson
Politecnico di Torino, Italy Polito Laura FarinettiFulvio Corno
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands TU/e Frank Vercoulen
Context: Cross-border collaboration in education, research and innovation
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Examples in the energy field: • KIC InnoEnergy, a virtual organization of universities and SMEs• SEEIT: Strategic partnership for sustainable energy• Explore Energy: Gateway for life-long learning
Context: Cross-border joint programs
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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.
Problem
Universities have an increasing 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.
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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.
Virtual Campus Hub − Components
1. A technological concept for the virtual campus hub2. A pilot platform to demonstrate how a virtual campus
hub might work in practice3. A set of documented best practices4. An inventory of staff competence and experience in
supporting international collaboration with ICT
What does a Virtual Campus Hub consist of?
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Virtual Campus Hub:• Functionalities• Infrastructure• Presentation in portal
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
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Conference room processes and functionality
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Process Functionality SubfunctionOrganization and planning Calendar
AnnouncementRegistration
Video lecture or conference Video LivestreamOn‐demand streamDownload file
Desktop sharingInteractivity Voice
Chat / messagingMaximum number of usersPresenter in control
Attendee requirements ClientAccountSmartphone access
Attendee invitation functionAfter the lecture or conference
Upload lectures / presentations
Upload other course materialsAccess lectures / presentationsAccess other course materialsGeneral discussionCollaborate on assignments Not in realtime
In realtime
VCH functionalities: Access to learning materialsAccess 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
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The remote laboratory is operated and monitored on-distance for real-timeexperiments and collection of measurement data.
The exercise is combined with on-line self-assessments and pre-tests, all100% automatically corrected.
No need for teachers to provide supervision or correction of exercises.
Experimental Setup
NetworkCamera
Exp. ControlWeb Server
WWW
Remote laboratory (KTH)
Control and monitoring of the
experiment
Examination Tools (KTH)
On-line examination tools for 100% automatic correction throughLMS (KTH Bilda)
Post educational course on wind energy (DTU)
Course materials and interaction through LMS (It’s Learning from external SP)
VCH functionalities: Virtual coffee 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)
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Virtual coffee house for Select MSc
Example of experiment with virtual coffee house for Select MSc
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VCH functionalities: Exchange of 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 (functional and technical, e.g IMS)
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VCH functionalities: Virtual incubator
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
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Virtual Campus Hub Infrastructure
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Virtual Campus Hub Infrastructure:• Federated authentication• Group management• ID-mapping• Exchange of presence and
calendaring info• Exchange of program data
VCH Presentation: Coherent view 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)
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Challenges
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• Enable federated authentication across borders• Enable value-added services (VAS) across borders
Group management ID-mapping Exchange of presence and calendaring info
• Provide identities across borders via NRENs (IdP)• Connect applications to the national hub (SP)• Enable applications for relevant VAS• Develop (simple) reusable gadgets for own VCH
applications
• Setup demo portal and incorporate (reusable) gadgets developed
• Design of a exchange mechanism for program data (e.g. course information, student results)
Géant infrastructure:EduGain, SurfFederatie, WAYF, Swamid, IDEM
Local institutions or companies:DTU, KTH, PoliTo, TU/e
TU/e (but others may setup own portals as well)
Local institutions with Géant as hub?
Enabling cross border collaboration
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Possible architectures to realize cross border connections for VCH through NREN federations and eduGAIN
Crossing institutional borders with data exchange (3TU experiment
Student UTTeacher UT
DLWO GUI
DLWO ESB
Local systems
Student TU/eTeacher TU/e
DLWO GUI
DLWO ESB
Local systems
Student TUDTeacher TUD
DLWO GUI
DLWO ESB
Local systems
DLWO UT DLWO TUD
DLWO TU/e
3TU Exchange
Federative 3TU concept
3TU experiment
• Pilot with exchange of course information• Local systems seen as “black box”• Communication between TUs based on standards• Scaling up via router / hub function
Demo