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Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005. Ian Bloor Project Manager De Montfort University ipb@dmu.ac.uk http://mle.dmu.ac.uk/impetus. Infrastructure for Multi-Professional Education and Training Using Shibboleth. Partners De Montfort University University of Leicester
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Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005 Ian Bloor Project Manager De Montfort University ipb@dmu.ac.uk http://mle.dmu.ac.uk/impetus
Infrastructure for Multi-Professional Education and Training Using Shibboleth • Partners • De Montfort University • University of Leicester • University Hospitals of Leicester • Background • Pathway Project • Multi-Professional Education and Training Centre • Aims • Develop and test an authentication and authorisation infrastructure for the MPET Centre, based on Shibboleth • Report on technical, organisational and legal aspects • Timescale • May 2004 – January 2007 Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005
Multi-Professionalism Department of Health, 2000. A health service for all talents: developing the NHS workforce. • access to high quality services when needed, seamless care between primary, secondary and tertiary settings • “It is about looking at the workforce in a different way, as teams of people rather than as different professional tribes. For too long we have planned and trained staff in a uni-professional/uni-disciplinary way without a clear and comprehensive look at the future.” • " . . . it is important that the NHS should work together with the higher education providers and accreditation bodies to develop education and training arrangements which are genuinely multi professional." Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005
Multi-Professional Training • shared learning - in clinical settings as well as the classroom • common learning objects • credit transfer – between disciplines and between Institutions • HEI’s are being asked to work collaboratively, with awareness of their particular specialisms, rather than competitively Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005
MPET Centre – User Needs Analysis Method: interviews with stakeholders Findings: • Wide range of users, with diverse roles: students, teaching staff, clinical staff, administrators, researchers, visiting lecturers, etc • Wide range of systems and resources - in the Centre, the partner organisations, and national and international sources • e-Learning integration – 3 VLEs: Blackboard, Fretwell-Downing, Kallidus • Compromise and ownership [Continued] Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005
User Needs Analysis (2) • Any time, any place access - Support for “Roaming” • Hardware • Fixed location and Wireless • PDAs • Different methods and protocols for issuing IDs and Passwords – NHS introducing Smartcards • Accountability – need to track resource use and costs Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005
Shibboleth Problems • More complicated than we had envisaged • Documentation for some prerequisites not clear – e.g. mod_jk • Multiple components, multiple versions • Sensitive to local environment, e.g. firewalls Partial Solutions • UK Support Group • Set of standard “benchmark” implementations? Core Middleware Programme Meeting 16 May 2005