1. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 1 New Technologies and Future Perspectives Pierre-Yves Burgi Head of the Information, Communication, and Educational Technology Unit IT Division

2. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB Topics of the presentation 1.Swiss Technological Backbone 2.UniGE’s Technological Infrastructures – IT Department – Web – Portal – Digital Library – E-Learning 3.Ongoing and Future Projects 4.Key points 2

3. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 1. Swiss Technological Backbone Mission: SWITCH was established with the objective "to create, promote and offer the necessary basis for the effective use of modern methods of telecomputing in teaching and research in Switzerland, to be involved in and to support such methods". Members: All Swiss Higher Education Institutions, including state hospitals Registry for domain names: ending in.ch (Switzerland) and.li (Liechtenstein) www.switch.ch 3 Switch Foundation: 1987-now

4. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 4 Swiss Technological Backbone © 2008, Switch 1 to 10 Gigabit Network

5. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 5 Swiss Technological Backbone Virtual Home Organizations (VHO) using Switch-AAI, a Shibboleth-based Single-Sign-On (SSO) system

6. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 6 Swiss Technological Backbone Switch-AAI: Principle

7. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 7 Swiss Technological Backbone More than 100’000 students have access to several tens of « Shibb-compliant » softwares Step 1 Step 2

8. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 8 Swiss Technological Backbone UniGE - Switch Info Day, Bern 31.01.08, PYB 8 Other Web Applications Valet GMT Service Providers in SWITCH-AAI UniGE

9. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 2. UniGE’s Technological Infrastructures 9 IT Department Web Portal Digital Library E-Learning

10. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 10 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture The IT Department …

11. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 11 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture 225 To (225 000 000 Mo) of data on tape, 45 To online 10 To of Internet traffic per month 24’000 e-mail boxes, with 80’000 e-mails sent every day 600’000 Internet incoming connections per day 600’000 spams + 2’000 viruses detected/filtered per day 5 millions printed pages per year for students 7'000 fixed net plugs and 200 km of wires 660 Wifi Access Points 12’000 Helpdesk phone calls per year 11'000 software distributed to over 3'000 users per year 75 employees … The IT Department in Numbers …

12. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 12 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Online administration Teaching services (e-learning) Research services Business intelligence Scientific information management (digital libraries) Personal Computer Environment e-Governance Communication The Eight IT Strategic Initiatives 2008-2011

13. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 13 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture The Web …

14. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 14 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Content Management System (Lenya) Google Search Appliance

15. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 15 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Set up of the new Web has required a strong collaboration with Rectorat and Faculties After one year, 230 new Web sites Old Web contained more than 500’000 pages

16. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 16 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Integration within the information system

17. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 17 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture The Portal … Authentification centralisée UniGE single sign-on (SSO) my.unige.ch Softwares / databases online services LDAP SSO

18. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 18 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture (Customized) services available through the Portal: Softwares / databases dont 10’000 à migrer en priorité Students Timetable of exams Protocols of exams Room student accommodations (offers) Online student’s administration Registration to courses … Teachers/Secretaries Timetable of exams List of students registered to their courses Protocols of exams Management of course description …

19. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 19 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture The Digital Library …

20. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 20 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture The Architecture

21. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 21 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Link Resolver http://resolver.rero.ch/unige/az http://resolver.rero.ch/unige/az

22. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 22 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Digital Repository (Vital – Fedora) http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch

23. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 23 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Mediaserver: About 10’000 documents, from 1970-now ( mediaserver.unige.ch) mediaserver.unige.ch

24. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 24 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture E-learning … 24 From R. Zemsy & W.F. Massy 2004

25. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 25 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Learning management systems: Dokeos (dokeos.unige.ch)dokeos.unige.ch  20’000 user accounts  2’500 teachers  18’000 students  2’420 courses Moodle (moodle.unige.ch)moodle.unige.ch  6’000 user accounts  380 teachers  5’200 students  270 courses Teacher’s involvement follows the principle of :  Stage of technology adoption Adapted from R. Zemsy & W.F. Massy 2004 Enhancements to traditional course configurations LMS Learning objects New course configurations Stage of innovation Time

26. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 26 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture LMS Statistics (Jan 09) Dokeos

27. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 27 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture LMS Statistics (Jan 09) Dokeos Moodle

28. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 28 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Simulation tools: Students can virtually explore interactively various environments. Used when: Manipulations can be dangerous (e.g. viruses) Material is costly and/or limited, fragile Labs are too small for serving whole classes Examples of tools at UniGE: Virolab Virtual microscope 3D environments …

29. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 29 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Biomedical simulation tools

30. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 30 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Virtual microscope

31. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 31 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture 3D simulation tools: Screen maintaining polarization Polarized lens Polarized beamers Two views with different angles

32. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 32 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture (Automatic) Lecture capture: Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB

33. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 33 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB Since September 2005 automatic lecture capture is possible in the large 30 auditoriums/rooms. This system allows to : diffuse face-to-face courses and conferences in live on Internet archive and index captured courses on a secure server mediaserver download captured courses on MP3 systems (podcasting) integrate captured courses within Dokeos This system is appreciated by students to revise exams replay a part of a course attend a missed course, due to either extra-professional activities (80% of students in 2006*), sickness, or course collision (Bologna…) * http://www.unige.ch/rectorat/observatoire

34. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE UniGE mediaserver’s access in 2008 Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 34 Monthly access of recorded lectures Trafic de données par mois E-learning projects Corresponding data traffic in GBytes In average, 70 lecture recordings per week

35. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 35 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Virtual Campuses (VC) in which UniGE is member: The Swiss Virtual Campus (http://www.virtualcampus.ch)http://www.virtualcampus.ch e-LERU (http://eleru.leru.org)http://eleru.leru.org The Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe (http://www.vcse.eu)http://www.vcse.eu Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB VC Definition: « refers to the online offerings of a university where studies are completed either partially or wholly online, often with the assistance of the teacher » (adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Campus )

36. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 36 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Virtual Campuses in which UniGE is member: The Swiss Virtual Campus (http://www.virtualcampus.ch)http://www.virtualcampus.ch e-LERU (http://eleru.leru.org)http://eleru.leru.org The Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe (http://www.vcse.eu)http://www.vcse.eu Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB LERU Partners 36 University of Cambridge Université de Genève Helsingin yliopisto Universiteit Leiden Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Lunds universitet Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München University of Oxford Université Paris-Sud 11 Karolinska Institutet Universiteit Utrecht Universität Zürich Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg Université Pierre et Marie Curie Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg Università degli Studi di Milano University of Edinburgh Universiteit van Amsterdam University College London

37. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 37 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 37 Founded in 2002 by a group of 12 European universities with the objective of creating a common policy forum of top research universities in Europe. It was extended to 20 universities in January 2006, totalling over 500’000 students and 100’000 staff. Main Objective : “Promotes the values of high-quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research” LERU Network

38. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 38 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture What is e-LERU? Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB  Began as a 2-year European Community funding  Total cost about US$ 1.5 millions  8 participating universities from the LERU network  Targets the setting up of a European Virtual Campus  Promotes e-modules and top-science talks  Participates in the implementation of the research-based education concept  Website: http://www.e-leru.leru.org

39. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 39 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture e-LERU Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB Research-based education based on ICT Portal http://eleru.leru.or g http://eleru.leru.or g « Watch » system Database of free e-learning resources in Life Sciences Top Science High Level filmed conferences E-Modules Online courses Joint courses Modul es from a single univers ity Integrated to a curriculum Freely accessible to all

40. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 40 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Sustainability issue of e-LERU Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB Advantages for the participating universities:  Increase their training offer with modules from other LERU universities  Encourage teaching collaborations  Attract international students  Bring in new technologies in the university through a mutual exchange of best practices  Show their research and educative strengths through the Top Science program Local team contribution in each partner university corresponding to 25% FTE Membership: 8000€ per partner Currently 7 participating universities for consolidation period (2009-?) :

41. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Example of an e-module Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 41 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture  Environmental Pole (University of Geneva)  SUPPREM Team : R. Lawrence (Project Leader), A. Dubois, N. Efrancey Dao  http://supprem.unige.ch/abo ut http://supprem.unige.ch/abo ut  Online interdisciplinary modules in Human, Social and Environmental Sciences Cursus :  Bachelor  Master Programmes  Continuing Education SUPPREM Virtual Campus Sustainable development and environmental Management

42. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 42 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Human Ecology e-course (SUPPREM) « Key Principles of Sustainable Project Development»  2 e-modules :  Principles and concepts (1 ECTS)  Methods, applications and evaluation (3 ECTS)  Objectives of the course: Introduction to human ecology and interdisciplinary approach & Evaluation of sustainable projects at the local level with practical exercises and case studies (Sydney and Leicester).  Contacts: Roderick.lawrence@unige.ch, Nicole.efrancey@unige.ch

43. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 43 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture What is the Swiss Virtual Campus? Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB  An eight-year Swiss project  Total cost about US$ 160 millions  10 Universities, 2 Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and several Universities of Applied Sciences  Targets the setting up of distant education  Website: http://www.virtualcampus.ch

44. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 44 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Swiss Virtual Campus Milestones Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 2004 7/200 8 « Setting up of the virtual campus » « Consolidation period » « Exploitation period » 1996- 1999  Realization of the first 50 online courses -  Setting up of eLearning Competence Centers in each University  Finishing up 62 new online courses  About 20 projects have been transferred into sustainable teaching structures  Increase the rate of project integration into teaching structures  Swiss edu-HUB July 2008 : End of the Swiss funding « Setting up National policies in ICT » 2000

45. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 45 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Integration of online courses (in the Swiss universities) Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB Adapted from S. Seufert & D. Euler (2006)

46. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 46 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Use of eLearning (in the Swiss universities) Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB Adapted from S. Seufert & D. Euler (2006)

47. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE 47 UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture Sustainability issue (in the Swiss universities) Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB So far, of the online courses (from S. Seufert & D. Euler):  20% could be transferred into sustainable structures  20% still demonstrate a certain chanced for being sustained  over 50% exhibit major hindering factors for their sustainability (integration, financial, technology, learning culture)  10% are anticipated not to survive Online course costs between US$ 300 K and over 3’000 K

48. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 3.1 Ongoing Projects 48 New e-devices for teachers, integrated to the automatic lecture capture system Generalization of the digital repository New simulation tools New concept of “learning objects”, sharable at Swiss level Swiss grid eduHub (Swiss assembly in e-learning) Alumni tool …

49. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 49 Ongoing and Future Projects

50. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 50 « Enriched » lecture capture system Ongoing and Future Projects

51. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 51 « Shared » learning objects Ongoing and Future Projects Today Tomorrow

52. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Current situation Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 52 Objet Pédagogique (LO) e-learning platform Ongoing and Future Projects

53. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Target Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 53 Objet Pédagogique (LO) e-learning platform LO transit Ongoing and Future Projects

54. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 54 Dokeos 2.x: LCMS Learning object-oriented system Ongoing and Future Projects

55. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 3.2 Future Projects (1/2) 55 User-centered interfaces with enhanced usability (Web 2.0, folksonomy, …) More clever search engines (Web 3.0) A “true” Portal Web, Portal, with focus on:

56. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 56 “True” portal (www.sabanciuniv.edu)

57. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 57 Intelligent interfaces (www.omnisio.com)

58. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 58 Intelligent interfaces (www.yovisto.com)

59. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 59 Intelligent interfaces (Wald et al. 2007)

60. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 60 User-centered interfaces with enhanced usability (Web 2.0, folksonomy, …) and more clever search engines (Web 3.0) Non-invasive e-learning (intelligent lecture capture) Constructing a library of learning objects adapted to the faculties Ubiquitous synchronous collaborative tools Participation (more active) to Virtual Campuses E-Portfolios, since age 15- E-learning and digital libraries with focus on: 3.2 Future Projects (2/2)

61. DIVISION INFORMATIQUE Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB 4. Key Points 61  Collaborations at National and International (European) levels is key to IT projects to keep abreast with ever- changing technologies  Nowadays IT mainly consists in system integration and customization of increasingly user-centered applications  Opensource software and open standards are key actors  Open access (content) is entering the scene