Open Apereo 2020 slides for the openEQUELLA 2020 Overview presentation.

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openEQUELLA
2020 Overview

2. Agenda
● What is openEQUELLA
● History
● Features
● Roadmap
● Community
● Adopter showcase
● Getting involved

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openEQUELLA
What is it?

4. “
Photo by Sylvia Yang from Unsplash
openEQUELLA is
Educational content management
for today’s world
Powerful, flexible, and open source

5. Content
Files
Metadata
Links
ContentMetadata
Admin Metadata
PermissionMetadata
Content
https://lucene.apache.org/

6. openEQUELLA at a Glance - Contribution

7. openEQUELLA at a Glance - Search

8. openEQUELLA at a Glance - Metadata

9. Custom
Auth
Datastores
LDAP
CAS
External Auth
/ SAMLv2
/ Shibboleth
D2L Moodle
Blackboard
Canvas Youtube
Flickr openEQUELLA
resources
Google
Books Kaltura
OAI-PMH
Other
openEQUELLA
institutions
Remote
Repositories
Shared
Secrets uPortal
REST API

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openEQUELLA
A Brief History

11. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions

12. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed

13. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA

14. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA
2010 Pearson acquires EQUELLA and subsidiaries TLENA and TLEE

15. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA
2010 Pearson acquires EQUELLA and subsidiaries TLENA and TLEE
2010 - 2014 Pearson expands EQUELLA

16. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA
2010 Pearson acquires EQUELLA and subsidiaries TLENA and TLEE
2010 - 2014 Pearson expands EQUELLA
2016 Pearson strategy shifts

17. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA
2010 Pearson acquires EQUELLA and subsidiaries TLENA and TLEE
2010 - 2014 Pearson expands EQUELLA
2016 Pearson strategy shifts
2017 Pearson open sources EQUELLA via Apereo as openEQUELLA
oEQ 6.5 is the first open source release

18. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA
2010 Pearson acquires EQUELLA and subsidiaries TLENA and TLEE
2010 - 2014 Pearson expands EQUELLA
2016 Pearson strategy shifts
2017 Pearson open sources EQUELLA via Apereo as openEQUELLA
oEQ 6.5 is the first open source release
2018 openEQUELLA graduates from Apereo incubation
Shift to modern UX begins with 6.6

19. History
2002 ‘The Learning Edge’ (TLE) is developed for the DoE of Tasmania by Dytech Solutions
2003 Tasmania DoE agrees for Dytech to maintain the TLE IP, and the company The Learning
Edge International is formed
2007 Application rebranded to EQUELLA
2010 Pearson acquires EQUELLA and subsidiaries TLENA and TLEE
2010 - 2014 Pearson expands EQUELLA
2016 Pearson strategy shifts
2017 Pearson open sources EQUELLA via Apereo as openEQUELLA
oEQ 6.5 is the first open source release
2018 openEQUELLA graduates from Apereo incubation
Shift to modern UX begins with 6.6
2019 EBP and Cloud Providers are introduced

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openEQUELLA
Features

21. Core Features
↝ Digital repository
↝ Security / Permissions
↝ Content Search
↝ Reuse / remix content
↝ Federate external content
↝ Headless (APIs) & UX
↝ Curation
↝ Versioning
↝ Copyright
↝ DRM
↝ Integrations
↪ Display
↪ Attachment
↪ Authentication
↝ Flexible configuration
↝ Deep customization

22. Recently Released Features
↝ Complete UX overhaul (in progress) - EBP
↝ Richer headless API
↝ Generic LTI integration
↝ Duplicate attachment checking
↝ Taxonomy sorting

23. Legacy UX

24. Modern UX

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openEQUELLA
Roadmap

26. openEQUELLA Roadmap
↝ Maintenance - dependency upgrades and bug fixes
↝ Modernize the Blackboard integration - Web Service > REST flows
↝ Modernize the Selection Session UX
↝ Modernize the Search UX
↝ Search facets
↝ Enhancements to EBP

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openEQUELLA
Community

28. Community Efforts
Community
Developer
Meetings
Advisory
Board
Security
Group
Apereo

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openEQUELLA
Adopter Showcase

30. Adopter Showcase
↝ Greater efficiency in the storage and management
of digital resources
↝ Facilitating the reuse of learning content for rapid
development and deployment
↝ The need for more effective and sophisticated
ways of managing digital rights and copyright in
relation to the learning resources used in learning
environments
↝ Supporting course copying, for sharing with
partners, and multiple occurrences.
↝ Customised search results page to present in two
columns. Hovering over any record generates a
‘pop-out’ which provides short record.
TANZ eCampus

31. Adopter Showcase
↝ Equella’s highly customizable nature
makes it very versatile.
↝ Leverages several custom workflows
↝ Ability to natively integrate with the
Canvas learning management system
(using LTI).
↝ Granular Permissions
Palm Beach Atlantic University

32. Adopter Showcase
↝ openEQUELLA is a critical solution for managing quality
assurance and development processes for TAFE Queensland’s
master collection of digital learning, teaching and assessment
resources (2000+ units of competency)
↝ Master courses built in the LMS are packaged and exported into
the master collection with the learning assets providing a single
source of truth for the latest version & for teachers to preview
↝ Collections include image collection, learning resources
collection of teacher contributed supplementary resources and a
licences collection
↝ Future collection will be added for sharing training product
between TAFEs in other States

33. Adopter Showcase
↝ Quick and easy way to house digital assets
and share out open access across our
organization
↝ Equella allows us to manage our
Storyline/SCORM packages and other more
robust learning modules much more easily
that loading them directly into the LMS
↝ Version control and ability to content manage
has been an enormous benefit for managing
our global resource items
Zovio

34. Adopter Showcase
↝ Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University
(UAE) has been using EQUELLA since 2011.
↝ This University is a leading organisation in the
Middle East region with a strong digital
strategy to support staff and students.
↝ One of the main uses of openEQUELLA is to
store and catalogue all course content in
various formats from each year. This is a
requirement as part of the Government
regulations.
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University

35. Adopter Showcase - Open Resources
↝ openEquella is used for a variety of
content management use cases at BYU
Idaho.
↝ Faculty created instructional content
↝ Curated institutional content for online
courses
↝ Special Collections and Archives
↝ Campus art inventory system
https://content.byui.edu/logon.do?NO_AUTO_LOGIN=true

36. Adopter Showcase - Open Resources
↝ Plymouth University (UK) has been
using openEQUELLA for almost 6 years.
↝ It has been integrated into Moodle to
support learning content which they
call “Resource Store” collection and
there is also an OER collection.
↝ The OER collection has nearly 1000
items with a blend of Academic
Partnerships, Project Outputs and
more general OER content.
University of Plymouth OER

37. Adopter Showcase - Open Resources
↝ Open Courseware, Open Textbooks,
3d object models, learning modules,
and videos.
↝ Higher education resources for
community and state colleges,
vocational education, and universities
↝ Lesson plans, instructional units,
objects, videos, and other resources
appropriate for K-12
↝ Institutional content open to the public
https://www.floridashines.org/orange-grove

38. Adopter Showcase - Open Resources
↝ openEQUELLA is used to archive a wide variety of media
contributed by users across the institution, from students
uploading multimedia to program administrators adding
accreditation reports
↝ REST APIs allow us to use openEQUELLA as the backend
archive for syllabi submitted through a custom-made campus
portal
↝ Students submit course work and senior portfolios which
are reviewed and approved by faculty
↝ External reviews are conducted by compiling a wide variety
of resources from throughout the system: course work, syllabi,
administrative spreadsheets, and self-assessment reports
↝ An institutional archive that contains historical
documents, photographs, and oral histories
https://vault.cca.edu/

39. Get Involved!
Apereo openEQUELLA website:
https://www.apereo.org/projects/open-equella
Apereo Google Groups:
Developers:
equella-dev+subscriber@apereo.org
Users:
equella-users+subscriber@apereo.org
** Monthly Community Developer Meetings **
GitHub issues:
https://github.com/openequella/openEQUELLA
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/EQUELLA
Community Artifacts:
https://community.edalexcloud.com/

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THANK YOU!
Questions?