June 10-15, 2012 Growing Community; Growing Possibilities Rob van Leeuwen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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 Rob van Leeuwen  Educational technologist  Working on online collaboration, digital assessments, VLE’s, online lectures on Twitter 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference3

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 This short clip gives an impression of our university:SURFconext / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam pilot (in Dutch)SURFconext / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam pilot (in Dutch) 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference6

 NextVLE VU, 2008: Sakai a possible VLE for VU?  Sakai CLE, OSP for a small number of students ◦ hosted solution ◦ community source  Running OAE since January Jasig Sakai Conference7

 “The Facebook professor”  Awarded best teacher of the year  Uses social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference8

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2012 Jasig Sakai Conference11  Dr Mooi in his office Dr Mooi in his office  Wolter Mooi at TEDX Maastricht (in English) Wolter Mooi at TEDX Maastricht  Interview at TEDX, in English Interview

 Collaboration with the other Amsterdam university (  Possibly Blackboard’s successor as VLE, full reports in Next VLE VUNext VLE VU  Collaboration environment  OER 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference12

 Free and online educational material for all medical undergraduates in the Netherlands + Flanders  Why? ◦ Give students as much material as possible ◦ They should be encouraged to ask and answer questions  How? ◦ OAE in hybrid mode ◦ SURFconext ◦ Tons of online open educational resources 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference13

 SURF is the Dutch NREN, National Research and Education Network  SURFconext is infrastructural glue  Information on SURFconext, in English Information on SURFconext 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference14

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 SURFconext, more information in English SURFconext, more information in English  SURFconext components available as open source SURFconext components available as open source 2012 Jasig Sakai Conference20

The SURFConext architecture makes use of SAML 2.0 protocol for Identity Provisioning and OpenSocial extended by the VOOT protocol for the provisioning of groups, memberships and roles. To connect the open.vu.nl instance to the SURFConext architecture, the existing SAML authentication module needed to be modified and extended on the following parts.  The library needed to be upgraded to support the SAML 2.0 protocol. This is done by making use of the oiosaml library. Most obvious changes are made in the way the client browser is being sent do the IdP by the SAML authentication module.  The SURFConext attribute mapping uses multiple mappings for the same field. For example, the mail attribute can be send as URN (urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:mail) or OID (urn:oid: ). To make the SAML authentication module more flexible, the module is modified to support multiple attribute fields for the same property of the Sakai user.  The VU Identity provider does not send the first name in case of most employees. To map the first name field, it needs to be extracted from the full name field. Modifications to the code have been made to support this.  All these modifications are done as part of the Sakai OAE explorations of the VU. The SAML 2.0 upgrade took about 13 hrs, the multiple attribute mapping took about 5 hours, the first name problem took about 2 hrs but is not completely resolved for now.  The first two modifications can be of use for the Sakai Community. The modifications made are considered to be experimental Jasig Sakai Conference21

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