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E-laboratory design and implementation for enhanced science, technology and engineering education
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Identity management and e-learning standards for promoting the sharing of contents and services in higher education
Get PDFIn 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
E-Learning Implementation in HigherEducation: Aspects of InfrastructureDevelopment Challenges and StudentsLearning Approaches
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Information Security and E-learning inVirtual Environments: Current Issues andImplementation in Nigeria
Get PDFWhich Data Sets Are Preferred by University Students in Learning Analytics Dashboards? A Situated Learning Theory Perspective
Get PDFTrends in the development of e-learning in higher education and future directions
Get PDFTeachers and students in higher education are coming to realize that to become competent
practitioners there is need to take advantage of up-to-date digital technologies and learning
practices. Learning process requires measurement and evaluation of students behaviour. In the case
of e-learning evidence is sought for improvements resulting from the use of online tools and
processes desired to achieve a given set of learning outcomes. In this 21st century, knowledge is fast
becoming a powerful engine in life. The visions, innovations, and inventions are the building blocks
of developing knowledgeable and sustainable society. E-learning has facilitated the use of a plethora
of internet and web-based applications as the method of communication with a distributed
audience. Therefore, institutions of higher learning are constantly venturing into new and innovative
methods and are radically changing the educational practice making it competitive. Some schools of
thought are of the opinion that the present structure of materials as used in e-learning unlike
turning the pages of a book lacks some degree of interactivity and pedagogical strategy. This makes
students feel that the contents are static and uninteresting
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