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OneStart puts Web Services

Oncourse at Indiana University

Bradley C. Wheeler

Assoc. Dean Teaching & Learning IT & Assoc. Professor of Information Systems

bwheeler@indiana.edu

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO

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duConsistent Growth

Enterprise Oncourse Growth

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duFall 2002 Semester

Faculty loaded   7,316

Faculty login   4,869

Percent Usage   67%

     

Students loaded   94,570

Student logins   72,825

Percent Usage   77%

All Campuses

IUPUI Faculty 86%Students 87%

Bloomington Faculty 62%Students 77%

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duCMS Requirements are Growing

Library Integration

Special Character SetsMath/Languages/Sciences Sophisticated Assessment

Streaming Multi-media

Direct Manipulation User Interfaces

Textbook Integrationw/ Publishers

OncourseOngoing Maintenance

IMS/SCORM

Self-pacedTutorials

Research/CommitteeSupport

E-Portfolio

How will IU meet these growing requirements for Oncourse in a period of relatively flat resources?

Workflow

Integration/Leveragew/Enterprise Services

Greater Personalization

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duIU Trends…

• Single sign-on to all IU services

• Integrated IU services via OneStart Portal• Greater distributed education by non-students• Growing need for Digital Library integration• e-Portfolio as a means of assessment• Leverage resources essential for economic viability

– shared support,

– shared development tools,

– reducing expensive redundancies in common services

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duQuestions for Course Mgmt Systems

• Integration? • Common authentication, Authorization

• Workflow

• Interoperability?• Student Information System (Vended, Custom)

• Digital Libraries

• Campus Card System (photos)

• Boundary Issues?• Policies… TEACH, IP

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A user’s information reports to him/her.

Disparate, unplannedintegration.

Not just paths to other systems or services, but

consolidated, relevant information.

•Subscriptions•Automatic groups

•Delegation

Reasonable Objective?

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duWhere are we today-

Data & ServiceSilos become

Library SIS CMS Schools, etc.

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duUnmediated Channels, Workflow

UnbundledServices

Library Registrar CMS Schools

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PortalAuthenticationPersonalization

WorkflowDelegation

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duPost-PC Mobile Computing

Portal

Services connect to the Portal and the Portal connectsto the evolving plethora of wireless, mobile computing devices headed to campus. Connecting each service is infeasible.

Library Registrar CMS Schools

Authn/Authz Security WorkflowComm.Tools

Storage

“Unbundling”

In Touch

Syllabus

Testing

Gradebooks

Calendar

eReservesDigital content

Full Text articles

Federated Searching

Because you can’t sustain pair-wise connections between

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Other Functional Apps

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duThe Path for Oncourse

•All Campuses on one system (8 IU Campuses)•All Users on one system (120+ Users)•All Courses in one system (25,000 Courses/Sections)•Single Sign On Solution for Authentication (ADS/CAS)

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duOncourse Profile – SIS Connected

•Dynamic Profiles (Loaded from SIS batch process)•Automated population of course offerings•Automated population of course rosters (including photo ID’s)

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duOncourse Strategy

Rewrite the application using OKI services, J2EE, open sourced

Partnered with U. of Michigan, Stanford, MIT (navigoproject.org)

Identified 7 redundant services in Oncourse for retirement that will be generic to OneStart; economic efficiencies

Oncourse as both a Complete CMS and a set of Web Services for personalization in OneStart

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duChallenges

Effective integration with Digital Libraries Serving faculty authoring/searching needs Service student access needs

Execution and hitting delivery dates Coordination of multiple universities ePortfolio as a CMS/OKI extension Research collaboration tools “WorkTools”

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duTimelines (In progress!!)

Summer Fall Spring

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•CMS Strategy Review•TLSS Faculty Committee Restructuring•OKI Assessment•Oncourse Staff Realignment

•Developer Training for OKI•Partner Selection•Planning

Oncourse Next GenerationOKI-Compliant

•Initial Unbundling Begins•OKI Compliant Enhancements

Quizzing Toolin production

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OneStart puts Web Services

Oncourse at Indiana University

Bradley C. Wheeler

Assoc. Dean Teaching & Learning IT & Assoc. Professor of Information Systems

bwheeler@indiana.edu

Discussion & Supporting Slides

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO

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duLessons

• A ‘Build It’approach has served IU well

• Oncourse has succeeded through voluntary adoption – won in the marketplace of ideas

• Leveraging the support infrastructure (Knowlegebase, helpdesk) has paid off

• Quality, quality, quality!!!

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duCampuses Differ

Oncourse Student Adoption by Campus

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Annual Cost

Measure-ment

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$ 862,246

82,747 Users $ 10.42 94.7%

Activity-based Costs 2001-2002

Total unique users 2001-2002

Source: UITS Report on Cost and Quality of Services, 2001-02

Budgets for IT Services are Flat…

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duOncourse is Outside UIS Economies

UIS Architecture• J2EE

• Oracle

• AIX / Linux

• IBM RS6000 / Intel

Oncourse• Microsoft Active Server

Pages• SQL-Server

• Windows 2000 Server

• Dell Hardware

Oncourse is outside of most peer-university enterprise systems standards

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duNext Steps for Oncourse’s Evolution

• Unbundle Oncourse into web services components for OneStart connectivity

• Migrate to Enterprise Architecture (Java/Linux/Oracle/IBM) and open source

• Partner with lead universities for shared development

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duIMS Global Learning Consortium

• IMS Test and Question Interoperability Specification (QTI)– Common Vocabulary for collaboration– Clearly Defined Assessment, Sections & Items

• Oncourse Test & Survey Tool

• Stand Alone Service

• Redundant Services

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duOpen Knowledge Initiative (OKI)

“OKI Architecture Overview,” OKI White Paper, 22 March 2002, http://web.mit.edu/oki/library/ArchitecturalOverview.pdf

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duTLSS Advisory Committee

Teaching and Learning Systems Steering

Chairs: Nancy Chism and Ray Smith

Development PrioritiesChair: Brad Wheeler TLSS Members

PoliciesChair: Oner Yurtseven

5-7 members chosen for specified roles

5-7 members chosen for specified roles

ExecutiveTLSS Chair + Subcommittee chairs + AVPs