1. EDUCATION 2.0 – EDUCATION IN THE PARTICIPATION AGE Tim Bray Director of Web Technologies Sun Microsystems Ted Dodds CIO The University of British Columbia 2007 Worldwide Education and Research Conference

2. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 2 Brief History of Student Systems BC > paper based processes > information silos in separate departments > the customer had to help us run the institution SRS > on-line records, flat files, reports SIS > support for core processes > often more work for other users > we began to help the customer

3. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 3 Feasibility Study Funded by Mellon Foundation Questions – January 2006 > level of interest in a community/open source SSS? > need for a community/open source SSS? > any existing applications to use as a base? Answers – August 2006 > interest high, belief strong > need is clear (AACRAO survey) > need to add functionality to existing systems Concurrently, series of SOA workshops Kuali Student – first founders meeting, October 2006

4. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 4 Open and community source Core Infrastructure Tools and components Enterprise applications Linux (1991) 1990 Apache (1995) 199520002005 PostgreSQL (1999) Eclipse (2004) uPortal (2001) Sakai (2004) Kuali Fin. (2004) Moodle (2001) jBoss (1999) Kuali Student Next generation systems

5. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 5 Kuali Student Project Vision > Student-centric > Flexible processes > High-level entities > International Delivery > Service-oriented architecture, web services > Community source, program planning > Modular design and delivery > Use existing standards

6. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 6 ContactAdmission Registration Identity service Evaluation service Enrolment service Learning plan Program requirements Program availability System architecture Portal service Workflow service Rules service Applications Business Services Infrastructure Services User Information Concierge Portal Concierge Applications User

7. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 7 Founders and Partners Founding Institutions > Carnegie Mellon University > San Joaquin Delta College > University of British Columbia > University of California, Berkeley > University of Maryland, College Park > Also: AACRAO Andrew Mellon Foundation Partners > Massachusetts Institute of Technology Commitments: $1M/year for 5 years (people/cash) Vision SOA Implementation Advocacy

8. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 8 www.educationcommons.org www.educationcommons.org Select PROJECTS Select COMMUNITY SOURCE STUDENT SYSTEM SOA Workshop Archive

9. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 9 10 Guiding Principles - Technology SOA Methodology 1.Reuse, autonomy, loose coupling, and up-front design via service contracts 2.Web services 3.Standards based 4.Separate governance process for service contracts Component Abstraction 5.Business processes and business rules 6.Presentation layer via an open source portal 7.Data layer Leveraging of Open Source 8.System will be built entirely on an open source software stack 9.Infrastructure will be composed of existing open source products Development 10.Java as the language of choice

10. Sun Confidential: Internal Only 10 Phase/Release 1 - Plan Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network

11. EDUCATION 2.0 – EDUCATION IN THE PARTICIPATION AGE Tim Bray Director of Web Technologies Sun Microsystems Ted Dodds CIO The University of British Columbia 2007 Worldwide Education and Research Conference