What current trends tell us about the future of federated access management in education

InFAMy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!
or... what current trends tell us about the future of ‘federated access management’ in education
Andy Powell, Eduserv
@andypowe11
FAM10, Cardiff
5, 6 October 2010

Intro
where are we now...
/ the working assumptions of the UK Federation have been with us a long time
/ FAM (as we know it today) has an uncomfortable fit with the wider web we see around us
/ arguably better fit with ‘enterprise’ solutions?
/ but discomfort of institutions as ‘enterprises’

Financial pressure
financial pressure...
/ budget cuts
/ job losses?
/ institutional and national ‘business cases’ will become more critical
/ might argue that institutions will become more enterprise-like
/ ...but think this will be very resisted
image: swamysk @ Flickr

Outsourcing
outsourcing...
/ e.g. Google mail/apps
/ the ‘new normal’
/ for students currently
/ but why not for staff?
/ at what point is ‘identity’ also outsourced?
image: M i x y @ Flickr

Expectation mis-match
expectations...
/ the mashable experience
/ user - privacy
/ provider – terms & conditions
vs. day-to-day practice
bjornmeansbear
image: Axel Bührmann @ Flickr

Mobile
mobile...
/ by <insert date here> mobile access to internet will have overtaken desktop access
/ mobile devices may or may not become the primary route to learning and research – but they will play a bigger part
/ what is the user-experience of SAML like from an iPhone app?

Open agenda
the ‘open’ agenda...
/ open source – interesting tension with
financial
pressure above
/ open access – impact on the primary use-case for FAM?
/ open science
/ OER
/ ‘open’ doesn’t mean ‘access management not required’
but it might change the nature and positioning of the requirement?
image: dullhunk @ Flickr

PLE
personal learning environments (PLE)...
/ a more open approach to provision of learning technology
/ letting the learner (and the lecturer) construct their own VLE using external services of their choice
/ typically associated with ‘Web 2.0’
image: abardwell @ Flickr

OER and APEL
the changing nature of ‘course’ and ‘customer’...
/ disaggregation of course delivery from accreditation
/ changing relationship of students to universities
/ increasingly ‘migratory students’
/ changing customers of ‘academic’ publishers

Overseas students
globalisation...
/ overseas students
/ greater collaboration between institutions (nationally and internationally)
/ research collaborations
/ dealing with multiple federations
Swansea Photographer
image: Swansea Photographer @ Flickr

Usability
usability...
image: shbib @ Flickr

The portal problem
usability...
/ the portal solution...
/ an attempt to control the user experience end-to-end
/ but the web just isn’t like that
/ WAYFless URLs are an abomination
/ the portal is (part of) the ‘problem’!
image: dmolsen @ Flickr

Usability
usability...
/ Kantara ULX work
/ some really interesting developments here
/ but... scalability?
/ and... the ‘publisher’ problem

Consolidation
consolidation...
/ of providers - Google, Facebook, ... (the ‘First bus’ effect?)
/ and technology – OpenID, OAuth
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image: andypowe11 @ Flickr

Single sign-on
institutional login...
/ single sign-on within the institution
image: BuildArk @ Flickr

Conclusions
conclusions...
/ ‘education’ is a relatively small fish in a big pond
/ mainstream approaches will win (in the end)
/ for EduservOpenAthens ... Google are
as big a threat as Shibboleth (and
the same is true for Shibboleth)
/ current financial climate
will have an effect somewhere
/ institutions are probably becoming more enterprise-like but still not totally like commercial organisations
/ tend to occupy an uncomfortable space
between the ‘enterprise’ and the ‘social
web’ (e.g. PLE and open science)
/ the relationships between students (and staff)
and institutions are changing
image: robotson @ Flickr

Thank you
Thank you
(with apologies to Kenneth Williams and whoever owns the copyright on this image!)
FAM10, Cardiff
5, 6 October 2010

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