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Exchange of Performance Assessments EPA Project State, Outlook

Exchange of Performance Assessments EPA Project State, Outlook. Urs Hassler – Project leader ETH Zurich urs.hassler@id.ethz.ch. Project Background. Students register for a program me at a home university and follow courses at partner university.

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Exchange of Performance Assessments EPA Project State, Outlook

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  1. Exchange of Performance Assessments EPAProject State, Outlook Urs Hassler – Project leader ETH Zurich urs.hassler@id.ethz.ch

  2. Project Background • Students register for a programme at a home university and follow courses at partner university. • Performance assessments will be taken at partner university and the results must be reported to the home university. • Examples: • Joint-master-programs, e.g. ETHZ – EPFL: Nuclear Engineering • Exchange students • Courses taken at neighbouring universities:EPFL – UNIL, ETHZ – UZH

  3. Project Goal • Define a data structure which allows to identify a performance assessment together with results / grades, credits taken at some university • Define and implement an electronic exchange platform for documents corresponding to this structure • Run a pilot exchange between EPFL and ETH Zurich • Invite other universities to participate in the exchange network.

  4. Definition of the Exchange Process • Each university has a release process for performance assessments. • A partner university has the duty to inform a student‘s home university about performance assessments • A home university has the duty to acknowledge that the performance assessment message was correctly received. • The home university will not confirm that the data has been processed and integrated into the own information systems.

  5. Technical Analysis: Core Components ETH Zurich EPFL EPFL Information system (IS Academia) EPA Adapter EPFL: Binding of EPFL ISA tolocal EPA node. EPA Node: Exchange of Perf. Assessement Messages EPA Node: Exchange of Perf. Assessement Messages EPA Adapter ETH: Binding of ETH OIS tolocal EPA Node. ETH Zürich OIS

  6. Component: Node • An EPA Node will be operated by every participating university. • It is responsible for sending / receiving performance assessment messages. • Main deliverables: • Web Service interface definitions for receiving/sending messages to other nodes and for communicating with the local environment. • Web interface for administration tasks: Manage identity of local and remote nodes, suspend / continue message delivery, view node status and transaction logs (example screens below). • Enterprise application running on a JEE5 compliant application server. • Usage of the WSIT standard in order to achieve the reliable and secure exchange of data.

  7. EPA Node Admin Console: Status overview

  8. EPA Node Admin Console: Exchange partners

  9. EPA Node Admin Console: Local Node Config.

  10. EPA Node Admin Console: Server Config

  11. Component: Adapter • Integration component: Implements data conversion between local performance assessments and EPA performance assessment messages. • Uses an EPA node’s Web Service interface definitions to pass messages for the transfer to a remote EPA node or to request received messages for the further processing. • Adapter implementations can build on top of a Generic Interface written in Java that hides the complexity of the Web service interface. Examples: ETHZ Adapter, Web Adapter. • Adapters can bind directly to the EPA node’s web service interface. Example: Local IT env. does not build on Java.

  12. Outlook: Final Milestones • 21.02.2010: Start pilot exchange between EPFL and ETH Zurich. • Q3 2010: Start exchange between ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, faculty of mathematics and natural sciences.

  13. Outlook: Possible Improvements • Implemented Message structure allows to adopt software in other contexts. • Message envelope: Sender University, Receiver University, Transaction Times • Message content: Currently only 1 supported content: Performance assessments. Support for other contents can easily be implemented. • Extend AAA/SWITCH to support Ids of universities together with trust information (PKI Infrastructure). • Configuration in node console gets easier, since possible partners and trust information will be maintained centrally.

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