EdReNe, 2nd Strategic Seminar (Lisbon, June 2008) (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education Luxembourg’s Educational Portal Enabling Connected

EdReNe, 2nd Strategic Seminar (Lisbon, June 2008)

(c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

Luxembourg’s Educational PortalEnabling Connected Schools!



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CTE – About us

CTE is a Department of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.

CTE’s Mission:

Identity and Access Management School Networking Operations & Security School IT Infrastructures and Maintenance Teacher Technical Training Audio/Video Production Multimedia



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Education needs Transformation

To transform Education

You need a

Vision

To transform Education

You need a

Vision

VisionVision

To achieve

Your Vision

You need a Strategy

To achieve

Your Vision

You need a Strategy

StrategyStrategy

Intelligentlyapplied Techology

is Key for Education

Transformation

Intelligentlyapplied Techology

is Key for Education

Transformation

TransformationTransformation



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Vision – Connected Schools!

Building a Virtual Working and Learning Place for the entire Education Community

Accessible anytime, anywhere and with any device Personalized information, from Web Content to traditional

Applications Secure single sign-on (Authorization) and progressive

Authentication Integrated Security Searching and finding reliable information from disparate

sources Aggregating multiple media into a single Web interface Providing Collaboration and Communication Tools Providing template based Publishing facilities Integrating eLearning facilities Safer Surfing



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Strategy – Web Portal

One Single Entry Point

Single Sign-on to Web-basedApplications and Content

Centralized Technology



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Why a Portal Framework?

Web based Open Secure Flexible Scalable Extensible Standards based

AquaLogic Interaction

Common Infrastructure

Pages Technology

Pathways TechnologyPa

ges

Path

way

s

Ensemble Technology

Collaboration Technology

Colla

bora

tion

DocumentsPoliciesIdentity Content

Ense

mbl

e

Security

Publisher Technology

Publ

ishe

r

Notifications



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Transformation - The G5 Portal

Knowledge Directory Document repositories, Federated search mechanisms,

Library Services Communication & Collaboration Tools

Virtual communities, Synchronous & asynchronous communication tools, Discussion forums, Project oriented services, Wikis, Blogs, Chat, Messaging Services, Mailing lists etc.

Publishing Tools CMS, Website Generator, etc.

eLearning Services Online Assessment Tools, Online Tutoring, Virtual

classrooms, etc. Application Aggregation in SSO

Grades, Reports, ePortfolios, etc. Administrative Services

Room & asset reservation, Library management, etc.

Personalization



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The page users connect first!

Integrate with your Desktop.

Hide Operating Systems.

Access from everywhere through one SSO experience.



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AuthenticationPortlets

User SettingsCrawlerSearch

G5 mySchool! ArchitectureEmployees Teachers Students

J2EE .net etc.InternetHostLDAP

Identity& Access

Management

my Portal Experience

SS

O

Search

Parents

Communities my Pages User Prefs KnowledgeDirectory

Portal

Content (CMS)

Collaboration

eLearning (LMS)

Applications

Workspaces

Web Services Level



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Portal Governance Model

ExecutiveIT Steering Committee

Minister of EducationDepartmental Directors

Portal Managers

Portal GovernanceExecutive Manager

Portal ArchitectPedagocical Advisor

Public Relations Manager

Technical TeamSystems ManagerNetwork Operator

.Net Developer

Content & Communities TeamEditor

Content ManagersCommunity Managers

Local Intranet Administrators

Overall StrategyInteroperabilityIT Governance

VisionDemandPoliciesPrioritiesRoles

HelpdeskService DeskSecurityInfrastructureDevelopment

External providersContentServices



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Portal Value

Continuously increasing acceptance through making technology transparent by delivering focused, and pertinent information and applications to entitled end users through one SSO experience.

Dramatically reducing the burden on the mySchool! Central Management through Delegation

Reducing Costs through Centralized Delivery of high quality Content and Applications



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Facts & Figures

> 25.000 Active Users > 8000 Workspaces > 80.000 Documents > 160 Reference Works > 600 Active Communities > 3100 Personal Web Sites > 25 School Intranets



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mySchool! Roadmap

Generation 6 (G6) Portal (2008-2009)

Portal ubiquityUser managed Portal

AggregationPeer Portal FederationWeb 2.0 – The participatory

Web Portal



Thank YouQ & A

Contact details, November 2008

Claude WeberGeneral Portal ManagermySchool!Phone: +352 247 85982Fax: +352 333 797E-mail: [email protected]

Centre de technologie de l'éducation (CTE)29 Avenue John F. KennedyL-1855 Luxembourg-Kirchbergwww.cte.luwww.myschool.lu

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.cte.lu/

http://www.myschool.lu/