Mobile Identity Management becomes increasingly relevant for organisations. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and a great diversity of native mobile apps ask universities for new ways of identity management. The Swiss EduID Mobile App project develops a solution for embracing the diversity of mobile applications and integrate them into the academic service portfolio. This presentation provides a first insight into the challenges and the technical approach we chose for linking student (and lecturer) mobile apps with distributed academic services of the Swiss academic federation.

1. FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz
EduID Mobile App
Use-cases, Concepts, User Experience
Mobile Identities with the

2. Mobile workplaces

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All following generations expect
ubiquitous information access
in all aspects of their lives

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Mobile technologies
are omnipresent

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Mobile technologies
are excellent tools for research

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… and for learning

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New and more learning contexts

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No hope for homogeneity

9. The mobile realm is not all
about the web!

11. The ”Cloud” from a Service Perspective

12. The ”Cloud” from a Device Perspective

13. The ”Cloud” from a User Perspective

14. Shifting from Feature Services to
Functional Environments
Glahn (2013). What we mean when we talk about mobile services.SIG Mobile Whitepaper

15. How to connect this diversity
to the
academic infrastructure?

16. Many Attempts for
Native Mobile Apps
§ Anonymous
§ Shared passwords and tags
§ Location-based
§ Personal PIN
§ Alternative Passwords and usernames
§ Separate authentication
§ Accounts with commercial providers

17. Non-standard Authorization
hampers Innovation at the
National Scale

18. Authorization is about
Trust
SwissEduIDMobileAppInitialArchitecture,2015

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SwissEduIDMobileAppDetailedArchitecture,2016

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21. How does it feel for
our users?

23. How does it feel for
App Developers?

24. E.G., On iOS

25. Follow the Development
Get Involved
§ Moodle Plugin:
§ https://github.com/BLC-HTWChur/moodle_eduid
§ Architecture:
§ https://github.com/BLC-HTWChur/Mobile-EduID-Architecture
§ https://github.com/BLC-HTWChur/rsd2-specification
§ iOS App:
§ https://github.com/BLC-HTWChur/eduid-app-ios
§ Android App follows soon

26. The Project Team
§ HTW Chur
§ USI
§ FHNW
§ In Cooperation with SWITCH

27. FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz
Christian Glahn
Blended Learning Center
@phish108 @htwblc