openid and elearning
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OpenID and eLearning
Scott Wilsoninstitute for educational
cyberneticsuniversity of bolton
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Institute for educational what?
• "The science of communication and control in animal and machine” (Norbert Wiener)
• "The science of effective organisation” (Stafford Beer)
• "A way of looking at things and a language for expressing what one sees” (Margaret Mead)”
• The science and art of understanding” (Humberto Maturana)
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Cybernetics and identity
• Linked to concept of autopoiesis; all systems that are autopoietic and maintain homeostasis have identity
• Regulation in a system is concerned with the maintenance of its identity
• From a cybernetic viewpoint, an“identity management system” is actually a system for maintaining the identity of the organisation, not those of the people it ostensibly manages
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Understanding education as a system
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Where is identity used in the elearning system?
• Individualization• Self-organisation• Activity• Coordination• Resource management• Monitoring• Strategy• Adaptation
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Where is identity used in the elearning system?
• Individualization• Self-organisation• Activity• Coordination• Resource management• Monitoring• Strategy• Adaptation
Resource management is the focus of traditionalinstitutional IDM“Leaked” into Coordination & primary Activity via the LMS/VLE. A consequence of an early technology variety imbalance
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Where is identity used in the elearning system?
• Individualization• Self-organisation• Activity• Coordination• Resource management• Monitoring• Strategy• Adaptation
Past: anonymised dataFuture: identified data (ULN)
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Where is identity used in the elearning system?
• Individualization• Self-organisation• Activity• Coordination• Resource management• Monitoring• Strategy• Adaptation
User-centric identity, especially OpenID
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VLE v PLE
VLEResource management
PLESelf-organisationInvidividualisation
VLE <-> PLECoordination
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Distributed, user-owned technologies are not merely going to be grudgingly accepted by
institutions, they are an inevitable requirement for organisational viability in the 21st Century
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Far from threatening institutional viability and control, distributed, user-owned technology offers an escape route from escalating costs, liabilities, and bureaucracy that come from a supply-driven model
Rather than spinning us out of control, they offer a way to get back under control
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A supply-led approach to provision of education and provision of
technology is no longer viable in an age of lifelong learning, user
choice, and increasing numbers
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Why is OpenID interesting?
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it isn’t really an authentication system
That’s a good thing
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it doesn’t really verify identity or identify the
userThat’s a good thing too
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it doesn’t require or assume policy alignment
or trust
Nice and flexible…
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it isn’t a provisioning system
(Apart from SREG and AE, but they aren’t mandatory)
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All it does is offer a means of asserting a relationship between an agent and a
URL
how cool is that?
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This makes it a potential boundary mechanism for the coordination of
individual, self-organised, and managed activity
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OpenID is a pivot
• It can provide an axis of coordination between the formal system and informal systems
• OpenID actually doesn’t really authenticate or identify anyone, but it can connect things that use identity
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A (bad?) example: Jyte RSS feed
<item> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:36:53 -0700</pubDate> <title>I have at least one unfinished novel that I work on intermittently.</title>
<author>http://elihu.myopenid.com/</author> <description><a href="http://jyte.com/profile/elihu.myopenid.com"
title="http://elihu.myopenid.com/">Elihu</a> made this claim.</description> <link>http://jyte.com/cl/i-have-at-least-one-unfinished-novel-that-i-work-on-intermittently</link> <guid>http://jyte.com/cl/i-have-at-least-one-unfinished-novel-that-i-work-on-intermittently</guid> <category>novel</category> <category>writing</category> <category>hobby</category> <category>unfinished projects</category> </item> <item> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:48:31 -0700</pubDate> <title>I always thought nic was a hip-py, but now I think he's a hip-hop.</title>
<author>http://packers1.myopenid.com/</author> <description><a href="http://jyte.com/profile/packers1.myopenid.com"
title="http://packers1.myopenid.com/">Packers</a> made this claim.</description> <link>http://jyte.com/cl/i-always-thought-www.tapsellferrier.co.uknicferrier-was-a-hip-py-but-now-i-think-hes-a-hip-
hop</link> <guid>http://jyte.com/cl/i-always-thought-www.tapsellferrier.co.uknicferrier-was-a-hip-py-but-now-i-think-hes-a-hip-
hop</guid> </item> oAuth?Privacy!
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Some potential usesIndirect evidencing & correlation, for
assessment or for personal portfolio development
Early-commitment coordination, for early engagement without institutional commitment
Coordination of home/work/university boundary activities
Tracking activity for coordination at group/course level
Tracking activity for analytics and planning at course/programme/institution level