Transcript FEIDE - itslearning

Federated Electronic Identity for Norwegian Education
Feide is a identity management
system on a national level for the
educational sector in Norway.
Tromsø, the world’s nothernmost
university city
A
service provider that is implementing FEIDE
• FEIDE is managed by UNINETT
A
portal owned by the Norwegian Ministry of
Education and Research
 National common gateway for easy access to
everything you need to know about education
• Course description repository
• Occupations description repository, NEW
• Learning Content repository
• Learning content publishing framework
A
concept based on the principle that
every user in the educational sector pupil, student or employee - receives a
user name from their school, college or
university, which can be used throughout
the sector (both commercial and public services)
 FEIDE
is partly founded by institutions
(campuses and service providers) and
partly founded directly by the Ministry
One username
One password
Do not need to register information at
each service, automatic updates from
campus information
 Informed consent for personal data
transfer
 Familiar log-in page may increase
security
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 Access for all Feide users
 No local administration of user database
 Feide handles login and gives high quality
data about users
 One contract with Feide eliminates bilateral contracts with all identity providers
 Goal:
all public schools in 2010
• Universities: All operative
• University college: 75 %
Local Authority
• Upper secondary school (high school): 50%
 100% during summer 2009
• primary and lower secondary school
 Only started
Institutional
 Today
Aproach
 Based
on SAML 2.0
• (Not shibboleth witch is SAML 1.0 based)
 Single
sign-on
 All log-on is run through feide.no as a
middleware service
 All user data is controlled and
maintained on campus institutions
(LDAP)
 Bibsys.no
(Sentralized library service)
 Fag.utdanning.no
 The
chicken and the egg
• The institutions hesitated to implement FEIDE
because the lack of services
• The Service providers hesitated to implement
because the lack of users
 We
have to identity providers in Norway
1. FEIDE.no: Education identity provider
2. minside.no (mypage.no): governmental services
(Tax, medical information, address of residence,
unemployment benefits etc…. )
 Most
ID-providers (campus) is using
FEIDE password / username but with a
local login routine and not single-sign-on
• It would be better if they where using the
“FEIDE single sign-on” service for local
services as well (LMS/VLE, e-mail etc )
• Then the user would already be logged on at
external services
 User
are commonly redirected to an
external login-page. This is bad usability
and many users are confused by this
 Data quality
• Few attributes are mandatory
• No attribute for subject or discipline
• User role not suited for the primary and lower
secondary school
 (student, employee, faculty, staff, alum, affiliate)
 Authorization
to content
• The publishing industries want to have control
of the business model
 Personalization
• My subject, my curriculum, my content
 Web
2.0 Get people together
• Same school, same subject
A
closer connection to the VLE
 Personal identification
 FEIDE username
number
(<username>@<organization>)
 User role (employee, student, member,
faculty)
 Name of the Organization the user are
connected to. (legal name, short name,
common name)
 Given name and surname of user
 (Username local institution)
 E-mail
 Legal organization number
7
universities, 46 university colleges
• (210 842 persons)
 Extensive
collaboration on electronic
services in higher education
• BIBSYS and other library services
• FS and MSTAS student registry systems
• Administrative systems: finance, HR, archive, invoice,
• High performance computing, super-computers and
grids
 Schools
(865 000 persons, plus parents)
• 454 upper secondary schools owned by 19 regions
• Around 4500 schools owned by 430 municipalities