Tim Rudolph
Art Center College of Design

Designing campus systems for real users

Art Center College of Design is a small, private college that has been a leader in art and design for over 75 years. While Art Center has had a tradition of innovative use of technology in education, it has been a late adopter of technology in support of its business processes and campus communication. In recent years Art Center has been undergoing a redevelopment of the core business system; early on in this process the need for a portal was identified and one was implemented. This early implementation of the portal was seen as a technology project and developed internally with very little input from anyone outside of technology. In a college that attracts students and faculty with a strong sense of good design, in both the visual and usability senses, the original implementation was unsuccessful.

By researching the needs of the campus community we were able to build a system that was easy to use, met the high design expectations of an art and design school, and functioned closer to the systems people use in their everyday life as apposed to traditional campus system.

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Aleksejs Kirillovs
University of Latvia

Using uPortal as Front-End for e-Services of the University of Latvia

Nowadays universities use e-services more and more. While technology and solution are developing, the number and functionality of offered tools increases, which causes a problem on serving these services to end user in a comfortable form. This paper gives an overview of the experience of the University of Latvia in using e-services for managing a study process, providing e-learning (Moodle), planning and development of students' and graduates' career, blogging (Wordpress MU), e-mail services (Webmail) and offering other information. The experience and future plans for using uPortal as a single interface for all e-services will also be presented.

Romulo Rivera
Center for Governmental Studies

PolicyArchive: An Online Archive of Public Policy Research

The Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) in collaboration with the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Library, have built PolicyArchive (www.policyarchive.org), a comprehensive, searchable, open access, online archive of public policy research. PolicyArchive will furnish a permanent, digital repository that will preserve public policy research in a comprehensive range of areas, and make it available to researchers around the globe.

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Alex Hawker
University of Bristol

Introducing the JISC e-Framework Programme

An introduction to the JISC e-Framwork Programme.

Aaron Godert
Cornell University

George Lindholm
University of British Columbia

Kuali Identity and Organization Hierarchy Management

Several months ago the Kuali Foundation formed a functional integration committee that looked at points of cross-cutting functionality within the Kuali suite of applications. This committee recommended that two new functional applications should be built to satisfy common identity, access, and organizational management needs. Since then, the Kuali Rice and Kuali Student teams have joined forces to develop new Kuali Rice modules called "Kuali Identity Management (KIM)" and "Kuali Organizational Management (KOM)". These products are slated to provide comprehensive SOA solutions and functional, workflow based, management systems, not only for all of the Kuali applications, but also for general software developer needs. This presentation will review the functionality of the systems as well as the design choices that were made. In addition, the presenters will discuss the pluggable nature of the modules, showing the potential for integration with other IdM solutions such as CAS, Shibboleth, LDAP, and Grouper.

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Janice Smith
The rSmart Group

Customizing Portfolio Tools in Sakai

The portfolio tools in Sakai provide great flexibility for ePortfolio implementations but require customization using the tool interface and .xml coding. Out of the box, Sakai portfolio tools don't actually do anything, but with careful design and customization, they support multiple portfolio processes across a variety of contexts. The portfolio tools operate in combination with each other to provide many possible solutions for different educational purposes.

This session will provide an overview of how to customize portfolio data structures in Sakai as illustrated by three archetypal portfolio implementations for the purposes of personal representation, teaching and learning, and assessment and accreditation. The presenter will cite available documentation, delineate necessary technical skills, and provide detailed technical steps required for customizing basic portfolio tools. The overview will include information on how to customize data structures for use in the following basic OSP tools in Sakai 2.5: forms, matrices, wizards, goal management, and portfolio templates. Participants will gain enough knowledge to use available resources, including access to a sandbox environment of Sakai, to continue experimenting with OSP on their own.

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Shoji Kajita
Nagoya University

A Lifelong University-wide User ID To Build Lasting
Relationships between Institution and Constituency

Nagoya University ID has been introduced as a lifelong university-wide user ID since January 2008. The crucial point to issue such a lifelong ID is to realize "one ID per person in the life". We describe the problems and approaches to associate the same ID with the same constituency.

Bryan Butler
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Three years experience using Moodle in a medical school. Reflections on the benefits and pitfalls experienced to date and an outline of plans for the future?

Moodle has been successfully used at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) to support healthcare education for over three years. While implementing Moodle strong emphasis was placed on a standard module design, metadata, communication, timetabling, assignment handling, examinations and the delivery of SCORM compliant content. As RCSI does not have a dedicated computer department, external technical assistance was required for the project.

Although the project has been a success, it has not been without problems. This presentation will address these issues.

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has recently secured funding from the Higher Education Authority in Ireland (through the National Development Programme) for the development of a robust, integrated architecture to support and improve the business of delivering medical education to undergraduate medical and health science students. A commercial system is used in the management of student admissions, fees and examinations.

Andrew Petro / Unicon

Open Source Integrations

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Nate Angell
rSmart

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Allison Bloodworth
Fluid Project

Spreading Community Thick: Open Source Communities of Practice

Opened Practices: A community of practice for teaching and learning with open/community-source tools. Join us for a guided tour of the Opened Practices online repository, dedicated to expand the conversation about pedagogy and deliver practices and tools for teaching and learning to new audiences of educators and students.http://openedpractices.org/

Open Source Design Pattern Library: The Open Source Design Pattern Library is a place for communities to create, collaborate on, and share their open source user interface design patterns. Our current members include the communities involved in the Fluid Project: Kuali Student, Moodle, Open Collection, Sakai, & uPortal.

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