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Identity management and e-learning standards for promoting the sharing of contents and services in higher education
| dc.contributor.author | Alves, Paulo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Uhomoibhi, James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-02-17T13:58:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-02-17T13:58:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we present the status of identity management systems and e-learning standards across Europe, in order to promote the mobility and the sharing of contents and services in higher education institutions. With new requirements for authentication, authorization and identity management for Web applications, most higher education institutions implement several solutions to address these issues. At the first level, the adoption of directory Servers like LDAP, Active Directory and others, solve some problems of having multiple logins and passwords for authentication. The growing of Web applications like Learning management Systems, portals, Blogs, Wikis, and others, need a more effective way of identity management, providing security and accessibility. Web Single Sign-On (SSO) resolves some of these issues of identity management, because the authentication is managed centrally and the user can navigate through different Web applications using the same session. One example of a Web SSO system is the Central Authentication Systems (CAS). SSO systems provide an effective way to manage authentication and authorization inside institutions, but are restricted to the administrative domain of each institution. With the implementation of Bologna Process more students, lecturers and staff will be on mobility programs within European higher education institutions. The creation of identity management federations is mandatory to provide the mobility of users and to permit the exchange of contents and services between institutions. The creation of identities federations across Europe is been in discussion by TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association) to provide a service federation like the EDUROAM WI-FI network that permits the mobility across Europe. This paper reports on some of the issues highlighted in the light of recent developments. To share contents and services within Europe, the adoption of standards is mandatory. IEEE LTSC (Learning Technology Standards Committee), IMS (IMS Global Learning, Inc) and ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) are standards organizations that publish a set of standards to promote the interoperability, reusability and integration of e-learning contents and services. The most important standards that promote the sharing of contents and services across Europe are Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), IMS Digital Repositories Interoperability and IMS Learning Design. This paper presents the main features of e-learning standards and how it can be used in conjunction with identity management systems to create collaborative learning objects repositories to promote a more effective learning experience and a more competitive European space for higher education, with respect to the requirements of knowledge based societies. | pt |
| dc.identifier.citation | Alves, Paulo; Uhomoibhi, James (2008). Identity management and e-learning standards for promoting the sharing of contents and services in higher education. In 14th International Conference of European University Information Systems. Aarhus. ISBN 978-87-91234-56-9 | pt |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-87-91234-56-9 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1936 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt |
| dc.subject | Identity and access management | pt |
| dc.subject | E-learning standards | pt |
| dc.subject | Learning objects | pt |
| dc.title | Identity management and e-learning standards for promoting the sharing of contents and services in higher education | pt |
| dc.type | conference paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Aarhus | pt |
| oaire.citation.title | EUNIS 2008 - 14th International Conference of European University Information Systems | pt |
| person.familyName | Alves | |
| person.givenName | Paulo | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | C319-FC42-5B6B | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-0100-8691 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 55834442100 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt |
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