1. Containerized Education
by the Up2U Consortium
Peter Szegedi - GÉANT

2. Metaphor...
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Container schools
Microservices architecture
Modular deployment

3. In a nutshell
• EC Call ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills
• easy creation, mix and re-use of content, services, applications and
contextual data for interactive learning processes
• environments for new learning experiences and experimentation
• educational support services
• The key objective of our project is to bridge the gap between
secondary schools and higher education and research by better
integrating formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting
both the technology and the methodology that students will most
likely be facing in universities.
• Innovation Action getting 5ME funding from the EC for 3 years

4. School vs. University
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Up2U Consortium
18 partners
• Universities
• NRENs
• Infrastructure providers
• Commercials
12 countries
• EU
• Switzerland
• Israel

6. Next Generation Schooling
1. Personalized
2. Strong teacher support
3. Close community links
4. Broad and diverse
curriculum
5. Outside and inside
school involvement
• Create the right conditions
and children will learn!

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8. at school
on the goin library in museum at home
’Always-on’ education
FORMAL LEARNING SPACE INFORMAL LEARNING SPACE
SIS
LOR
Assessment
LMS
Attend
Search
Share
Create
U p 2 U E C O S Y S T E M
INFRASTRUCTURE
eduOER aggregation
Sync&Share ownCloud
WiFi eduroam TO UNIVERSITY

9. From LMS to NGDLE
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From a Walled Garden...
...to an Open Garden.

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• Open Technology
• Standard APIs
• Value-add
• Scalable
• Modular
• Portable
• INTEROPERABILITY

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Learning
Management
System
Learning
Record Store
Learning
Analytics
WebSSO
AuthN and AuthZ
Up2U Learning Portal
Up2U INFRASTRUCTURE
File Sync
and Share
Content Aggregation
and Management
Up2U SERVICE BUS
Up2Universe
LTI TOOLS...
Digital
Rewards
xAPI LTI
OpenCloudMesh
LTI
SAML2
OAI-PMH
Content
Provider(s)
Repositories
Third-party
App/Infra
Stack
• Open Technology
• Standard APIs
• Value-add
• Scalable
• Modular
• Portable (Docker images)
• INTEROPERABILITY
OBI LIS QTI
Architecture
OPEN

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Your Preferred Portal
YOUR PREFERRED INFRASTRUCTURE
YOUR PREFERRED INFRASTRUCTURE
Your Preferred Portal
YOUR PREFERRED INFRASTRUCTURE
Your Preferred Portal
• INTEROPERABILITY

13. Schools’ interest...
Roadmap
t
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
2017-2018January
2017
2018-2019
December
2019
MVP 1
MVP 2
MVP 3Pre-pilot
Kick-off
1st GA
Amsterdam
Technical Workshop
Porto
Surveys...
MoU
Launch
MVP 1
Launch
MVP 2
Launch
MVP 3
Pilot 1 Pilot 2 Pilot 3 Production...
Subject Matter
Committee
Training
Development
Sustainability Plan
Trainings & Community Workshops...
Impact Assessment
2nd GA
EC Review Preparation
EC Review
Final
EC Review
3rd GA
Techincal Workshop Review Preparation
Technical
Workshop
WE ARE HERE

14. How to engage
1. Come and experiment with the Up2U NGDLE in the cloud
• Distributed private cloud installation at PSNC-Poland, GWDG-
Germany and GRNET-Greece.
2. Integrate components and functionalities into your LMS
• Github & Dockerhub images, automated deployment and
configuration, documentation and support
3. Take the entire open-source platform and deploy it on-
prem or in your preferred cloud
• Integrated software stack in Docker containers
Up2University.eu

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