© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu OneStart puts Web Services Oncourse at Indiana University Bradley C. Wheeler Assoc. Dean Teaching & Learning IT & Assoc. Professor of Information Systems Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Consistent Growth

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Fall 2002 Semester Faculty loaded 7,316 Faculty login 4,869 Percent Usage 67% Students loaded 94,570 Student logins 72,825 Percent Usage 77% All Campuses IUPUI Faculty 86% Students87% Bloomington Faculty 62% Students77%

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu CMS Requirements are Growing Library Integration Special Character Sets Math/Languages/Sciences Sophisticated Assessment Streaming Multi-media Direct Manipulation User Interfaces Textbook Integration w/ Publishers Oncourse Ongoing Maintenance IMS/SCORM Self-paced Tutorials Research/Committee Support E-Portfolio How will IU meet these growing requirements for Oncourse in a period of relatively flat resources? Workflow Integration/Leverage w/Enterprise Services Greater Personalization

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu IU Trends… Single sign-on to all IU services Integrated IU services via OneStart Portal Greater distributed education by non-students Growing need for Digital Library integration e-Portfolio as a means of assessment Leverage resources essential for economic viability –shared support, –shared development tools, –reducing expensive redundancies in common services

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Questions for Course Mgmt Systems Integration? Common authentication, Authorization Workflow Interoperability? Student Information System (Vended, Custom) Digital Libraries Campus Card System (photos) Boundary Issues? Policies… TEACH, IP

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu A user’s information reports to him/her. Disparate, unplanned integration. Not just paths to other systems or services, but consolidated, relevant information. Subscriptions Automatic groups Delegation Reasonable Objective?

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Where are we today- Data & Service Silos become LibrarySIS CMSSchools, etc. www …Unbundled Web Services

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Unmediated Channels, Workflow Unbundled Services LibraryRegistrarCMSSchools onestart.iu.edu Portal Authentication Personalization Workflow Delegation

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Post-PC Mobile Computing Portal Services connect to the Portal and the Portal connects to the evolving plethora of wireless, mobile computing devices headed to campus. Connecting each service is infeasible. LibraryRegistrarCMSSchools

Authn/Authz SecurityWorkflow Comm. Tools Storage “Unbundling” In Touch Syllabus Testing Gradebooks Calendar eReserves Digital content Full Text articles Federated Searching Because you can’t sustain pair- wise connections between n number of systems Other Functional Apps

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu The Path for Oncourse All Campuses on one system (8 IU Campuses) All Users on one system (120+ Users) All Courses in one system (25,000 Courses/Sections) Single Sign On Solution for Authentication (ADS/CAS)

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Oncourse Profile – SIS Connected Dynamic Profiles (Loaded from SIS batch process) Automated population of course offerings Automated population of course rosters (including photo ID’s)

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Oncourse Strategy Rewrite the application using OKI services, J2EE, open sourced Partnered with U. of Michigan, Stanford, MIT (navigoproject.org)navigoproject.org Identified 7 redundant services in Oncourse for retirement that will be generic to OneStart; economic efficiencies Oncourse as both a Complete CMS and a set of Web Services for personalization in OneStart

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Challenges  Effective integration with Digital Libraries  Serving faculty authoring/searching needs  Service student access needs  Execution and hitting delivery dates  Coordination of multiple universities  ePortfolio as a CMS/OKI extension  Research collaboration tools “WorkTools”

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Timelines (In progress!!) Summer Fall Spring Summer Fall Spring Fall CMS Strategy Review TLSS Faculty Committee Restructuring OKI Assessment Oncourse Staff Realignment Developer Training for OKI Partner Selection Planning Oncourse Next Generation OKI-Compliant Initial Unbundling Begins OKI Compliant Enhancements Quizzing Tool in production

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu OneStart puts Web Services Oncourse at Indiana University Bradley C. Wheeler Assoc. Dean Teaching & Learning IT & Assoc. Professor of Information Systems Discussion & Supporting Slides Office of the Vice President for Information Technology & CIO

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Lessons A ‘Build It’approach has served IU well Oncourse has succeeded through voluntary adoption – won in the marketplace of ideas Leveraging the support infrastructure (Knowlegebase, helpdesk) has paid off Quality, quality, quality!!!

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Campuses Differ

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Annual Cost Measure- ment Units Activity Measure- ment Unit Cost User Satis- faction $ 862,246 82,747Users $ % Activity-based Costs Total unique users Source: UITS Report on Cost and Quality of Services, Budgets for IT Services are Flat…

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Oncourse is Outside UIS Economies UIS Architecture J2EE Oracle AIX / Linux IBM RS6000 / Intel Oncourse Microsoft Active Server Pages SQL-Server Windows 2000 Server Dell Hardware Oncourse is outside of most peer-university enterprise systems standards

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Next Steps for Oncourse’s Evolution Unbundle Oncourse into web services components for OneStart connectivity Migrate to Enterprise Architecture (Java/Linux/Oracle/IBM) and open source Partner with lead universities for shared development

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu IMS Global Learning Consortium IMS Test and Question Interoperability Specification (QTI) –Common Vocabulary for collaboration –Clearly Defined Assessment, Sections & Items Oncourse Test & Survey Tool Stand Alone Service Redundant Services

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) “OKI Architecture Overview,” OKI White Paper, 22 March 2002,

© 2003 The Trustees of Indiana University oncourse.iu.edu TLSS Advisory Committee Teaching and Learning Systems Steering Chairs: Nancy Chism and Ray Smith Development Priorities Chair: Brad Wheeler TLSS Members Policies Chair: Oner Yurtseven 5-7 members chosen for specified roles Executive TLSS Chair + Subcommittee chairs + AVPs