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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
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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…UnbundledWeb Services
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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
n number of systems
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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Summer Fall Spring Fall
•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
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
Units
Activity Measure-
ment Unit Cost User Satis-
faction
$ 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