1. What’s Happening? A UK Perspective
DIGITAL UNIVERSITY PROJECT
What’s Happening? A UK Perspective
PEPC 2003
Ian Dolphin

2. General Meeting November 2002 forms JA-SIG UK
Meeting sponsored by JISC
50 attendees
Mailing list
Web Site
Institutional portal: still a hot topic
National subject portals: SPP, PORTAL Project

3. In practice … diversity, but common issues:
“Old” Universities, “New” Universities
Web single sign-on
Varying points along the road - Yale CAS
Authorisation and Person Directory
Heterogenous directory services
“grey users”
Data standards for Person Directory

4. Institutional process barrier
Portal a “process lens”
Critical test of Senior management buy-in
… and of buy-in from below
Demonstrating benefits
Managing expectations
“Join” between central and departmental data

5. Consultation – PORTAL survey
Library systems integration
Integrated access to external resources
Concerns regarding accessibility
SENDA, 508, EU legislation
Services provided by LMS/VLE
“system overlap” & value-for-money

6. New Projects & Collaborations
Web Services & Learning Services
Single (micro) or aggregated clusters (macro) of web services which are used to support learning
Which can be rapidly assembled in response to need
Deconstruct the LMS/VLE
Re-use components in a non learning context
Develop/refine macro services in response to pedagogical research and experience