Luxembourg’s Educational Portal

1. Luxembourg’s Educational Portal Enabling Connected Schools! (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

2. CTE – About us • CTE is a Department of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. • CTE’s Mission: • Identity and Access Management • School Networking Operations & Security • School IT Infrastructures and Maintenance • Teacher Technical Training • Audio/Video Production • Multimedia (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

3. Vision Strategy Transformation IntelligentlyappliedTechologyis Key for EducationTransformation To transform Education You need a Vision To achieve Your Vision You need aStrategy Education needs Transformation (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

4. Vision – Connected Schools! Building a Virtual Working and Learning Place for the entire Education Community • Accessible anytime, anywhere and with any device • Personalized information, from Web Content to traditional Applications • Secure single sign-on (Authorization) and progressive Authentication • Integrated Security • Searching and finding reliable information from disparate sources • Aggregating multiple media into a single Web interface • Providing Collaboration and Communication Tools • Providing template based Publishing facilities • Integrating eLearning facilities • Safer Surfing (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

5. Strategy – Web Portal • One Single Entry Point • Single Sign-on to Web-basedApplications and Content • Centralized Technology (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

6. AquaLogic Interaction Ensemble Technology Publisher Technology Pages Technology Pathways Technology Pathways Collaboration Publisher Ensemble Pages Collaboration Technology Common Infrastructure Identity Security Policies Content Documents Notifications Why a Portal Framework? • Web based • Open • Secure • Flexible • Scalable • Extensible • Standards based (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

7. Transformation - The G5 Portal • Knowledge Directory • Document repositories, Federated search mechanisms, Library Services • Communication & Collaboration Tools • Virtual communities, Synchronous & asynchronous communication tools, Discussion forums, Project oriented services, Wikis, Blogs, Chat, Messaging Services, Mailing lists etc. • Publishing Tools • CMS, Website Generator, etc. • eLearning Services • Online Assessment Tools, Online Tutoring, Virtual classrooms, etc. • Application Aggregation in SSO • Grades, Reports, ePortfolios, etc. • Administrative Services • Room & asset reservation, Library management, etc. Personalization (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

8. The page users connect first! • Integrate with your Desktop. • Hide Operating Systems. • Access from everywhere through one SSO experience. (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

9. G5 mySchool! Architecture SSO Identity & Access Management Employees Parents Teachers Students my Portal Experience Search Workspaces Communities my Pages User Prefs Knowledge Directory Portal Web Services Level Content (CMS) Authentication Portlets User Settings Crawler Search Collaboration eLearning (LMS) Applications J2EE .net LDAP Host Internet etc. (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

10. Portal Governance Model Executive IT Steering CommitteeMinister of EducationDepartmental DirectorsPortal Managers Overall Strategy Interoperability IT Governance Vision Demand Policies Priorities Roles Portal GovernanceExecutive ManagerPortal ArchitectPedagocical AdvisorPublic Relations Manager External providers Content Services Helpdesk Service Desk Security Infrastructure Development Content & Communities Team Editor Content Managers Community Managers Local Intranet Administrators Technical Team Systems Manager Network Operator .Net Developer (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

11. Portal Value • Continuously increasing acceptance through making technology transparent by delivering focused, and pertinent information and applications to entitled end users through one SSO experience. • Dramatically reducing the burden on the mySchool! Central Management through Delegation • Reducing Costs through Centralized Delivery of high quality Content and Applications (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

12. Facts & Figures • > 25.000 Active Users • > 8000 Workspaces • > 80.000 Documents • > 160 Reference Works • > 600 Active Communities • > 3100 Personal Web Sites • > 25 School Intranets (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

13. mySchool! Roadmap • Generation 6 (G6) Portal (2008-2009) • Portal ubiquity • User managed Portal Aggregation • Peer Portal Federation • Web 2.0 – The participatory Web Portal (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education

14. Thank You Q & A Contact details, November 2008 Claude Weber General Portal Manager mySchool! Phone: +352 247 85982 Fax: +352 333 797 E-mail: weber@myschool.lu Centre de technologie de l'éducation (CTE) 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy L-1855 Luxembourg-Kirchberg www.cte.lu www.myschool.lu (c) 2008, Daniel Weiler, Centre of Technology of Education