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Ies+perto eunis-2015
1. Using cloud computing to
foster closer links between
higher education institutions
Lígia Maria Ribeiro
lmr@fe.up.pt
Universidade do Porto – Faculdade de Engenharia
Luís Valente
lvalente@reit.up.pt
Universidade do Porto – Reitoria
2. Using cloud computing to
foster closer links between
higher education institutions
HEIs+CLOSER
Higher Education Institutions
more
closer
3. Agenda
• The project IES+Perto
• Main goal and objectives
• Cloud infrastructure
• Interoperability platform
• Services
• Student mobility
• Apps for mobile devices
• Digital signature
• Conclusions and future developments
4. The project IES+Perto
• Work began in January 2014
• Project ends September 2015
• Budget: 2M€
• 1.7 M€ financed
• SAMA - Administrative Modernization Support System
5. The context
• Portugal
• Sovereignty 1128
• Population: 10.4 million (2014 estimate)
• Total area 92 200 km2 (35,6 sq. mi)
• Capital City: Lisboa (Lisbon)
• HEI
• Universities (14 public + private)
• Polytechnics (17 public + others)
• CRUP
• CCISP
• FCT/FCCN
9. IES+Perto Consortium
• > 87 000 students
• > 6 000 teachers and researchers
• > 3 500 other staff
• Consortium represents more than 25% of
higher education students in Portugal
10. Main goal
Exploring the benefits of interoperability, open standards and cloud
computing, to help bring around a development strategy for
administrative modernization and rationalization of costs in the higher
education context.
11. Objectives
• Fostering the adoption of cloud based services
• Building an interoperability platform
• Supporting student mobility
• National mobility programs
• Joint courses
• Supporting APPs for mobile devices
• Digital signatures
12. Cloud infrastructure
• Data centres upgrades
• Equipment; network; security audits;
• Virtualization infrastructures
• Cloud management platforms
• OpenStack choice
• Integration with RCTS AAI
• Shibboleth
• Virtual data centres model
14. Interoperability platform
• Public API to mobile devices
• Supporting student mobility
• National mobility programs
• Joint courses
• 1 public API to 4 different SIS
15. Student mobility
• National Mobility programs
• Almeida Garrett
• Vasco da Gama
• Connection with EUNIS Interoperability
TF
• USOS Mobility Tool Project
• ELMO XML
16. Mobile App
• Mobile App
• Same application for all institutions
• Android and iOS
• Social network concepts
• Giving services focused in our users
• Student
• Professor
• Staff
17. Mobile App
• Principal services
• Social network – channels and instant
messaging
• Personal data – basic network profile
information
• Calendar – information oriented to the
user
• Financial – information of payments
and references how to pay
18. Mobile App
• Principal services
• Academic Info – academic information
(courses, study materials, exams,
grades…)
• Human Resources – Payrolls
information, attendance control,
holidays
• Other services – free slots in parks,
canteens, residences, service queue
tickets
19. Digital signature
• Principal objective
• Improve the use of national eID card to digital signature of documents in
HEIs
• Principal constrain
• eID card middleware have poor support of different operating systems
• Difficult to use and install
• Solution
• A pure JAVA middleware
• OS independent
20. Digital signature
• Solution
• A pure JAVA middleware
• OS independent
• Installation not needed
• It’s a light library that can be integrated with existing JAVA applets to sign
pdfs
21. Conclusions and future
developments
• Prototype for testing
• Preparation of a new project
• Inter-university course transfer
• Students’ CV
• Europass http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/
• Students’ diplomas online
• Groningen Declaration
• Library management
• APC
22. Thank you,
Lígia Maria Ribeiro
lmr@fe.up.pt
Universidade do Porto – Faculdade de Engenharia
Luís Valente
lvalente@reit.up.pt
Universidade do Porto – Reitoria