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11:00-11:05 (‘5)

11:05-11:55 (‘50)

12:05-12:15 ('10)

Session 1: Trust and Identity

In this session we will explore how existing Trust and Identity infrastructures can help delivering online services to support education and remote learning.

Setting the scene (Licia Florio, GÈANT, T&I Activity Leader) - 7 min

Student Mobility: the future of Erasmus digital services and MyAcademicID (Joao Bacelar, EUF) - 7 min

Q&A -

Possible questions emerged in previous conversations:

1. how do we enable federated access at scale for remote learning services (i.e. online exams, etc)
2. should services use 2-factor authentication? If so are there recommendations?
3. How do we ensure compliance with GDPR?
4. Are there guidelines for service providers wrt federated access and security?

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Session 3:

International education delivery rather than national?

Host: Esther Wilkinson (Jisc)

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Session 4:

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Welcome back. Introduction to the 2nd part of the conference. Announce the parallel sessions and the rules

Outcomes: overview of the services, tools for services, how are they procured/licences, timing (short-term, long-term)

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Session 5: 

Tools

In this session the SIG-Multimedia group will discuss the different tools to support real time collaboration, show some experiences.

Session host: Erik Kikkenborg

Session agenda

• Opening (Erik Kikkenborg, SIG-MM and TF-EDU Chair)
• Lightning talks (3x 5 minutes):
• Fabio Farina (GARR): Lessons from the Covid videoconference crisis in Italy: 

  The lockdown in Italy has shown the need for new videoconferencing services. GARR reacted promptly by providing new VC
  tools. This talk will present the main outcomes learned from the Covid crisis, and how this experience can help in future evolutions of the VC education services.

   Fabio Farina is in GARR since 2010. As a software architect, Fabio takes care of designing and creating new services for the Italian R&E community
• Hrvoje Lisac (CARNET): Virtual and hybrid conferences – next level: Streaming live events and conferences has been always very challenging and sometimes more and sometimes less stressful. Mastering and combining new and old technologies, different channels of streaming (youtube, facebook, own web portal or IPTV platform), communication (twitter, FB, chats, web or video conference) can be done and is recommended today. Can we do better than we used to do? What resources are in the game? Do we need to spend a lot to make it work seamlessly and to look better than before? Can we mix different sources and how to do it with FOSS? 
    Hrvoje Lisac is in CARNET from 2006 and since then, together with other members of multimedia team he is helping and supporting members of network to work, collaborate, teach and share knowledge remotely.
  
  
• John Wilson (Ajenta): Vscene to the community: There have been many discussions within the group on a number of other video based collaboration tools, however Vscene (www.vscene.net) has not been mentioned yet and it was designed for Education, with the help of the Education community and security is at the heart of what we do. We only allow education, research and public sector use of the platform and have a very strong user base in the UK and Ireland and are just about to launch global expansion – multi language is also on the roadmap.

• Gytis Cibulskis, Eimantas Serpenskas (KTU/LITNET): Up2U National Infrastructure in Lithuania: COVID-19 Challenges and Implications

  Up2U project helped to prepare for COVID-19 challenges in Lithuania:
  - to provide schools with dedicated Moodle instances and other Up2U tools,
  - to train teachers in using virtual learning environment, 
  - to organise support system for schools' Moodle administrators and teachers.
  Scaling up to serve ~250 schools with more than 70K users was also a challenge for the infrastructure and required additional efforts to fine tune systems' architecture and configuration for extremely increased load. The need for reliable video lecturing in remote teaching situation was met by LITNET team witch installed and provided with scalable open source BigBlueButton solution. Main implication of COVID-19 is a clear necessity for national strategy to facilitate use of virtual learning environments in schools and provide further support for developed Up2U national infrastructure.

• Facilitated discussions
• Next steps

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Session 6: 

What’s in it for me?

(Procurement / licenses / NREN services). Hosted by members of SIG-Managing Service Portfolios.

This interactive session will describe the existing frameworks and solutions in place (both Commercial and Community based).  We will also share common challenges and interest areas with the objective of finding some concrete next steps to be followed towards how we procure and use collaboration tools, LMS, video conferencing in the future to support our Education community.  Relevant community experts will be in attendance to answer all your questions….at the very least your “What’s in it for me?” question!

Session agenda

• Opening (Annabel Grant – Co-cordinator of SIG-MSP)
• “Lightening Talks” (2x10 minutes)
  • GEANT framework: Maria Ristkok (leader of Clouds Work package for the GEANT project)
  • EduMEET solution: speaker TBCBartek Idzikowski, PSNC
• Facilitated discussion (Annabel Grant & Magda Haver):
  • Which are the existing frameworks? Do I need to make a separate call off?
  • Can I use the licenses as a university/institution or is it only for NRENs
  • Will the procured prices be public available
  • How to plan for scale down / after pandemic situation?
  • Are there potential new services for NRENs to educational institutions? 
  • What it the role of NRENs in supporting education?
  • Are there pressure from national ministries of education to take a larger role to support the educational institutions with their technological challenges?

• Next steps (10 minutes)

  • Common interest areas
  • Common challenges
  • Possible next steps (NRENs or experts joint activity, GEANT coordinated action...etc)
  • Where they could follow up (SIG or TF or other forum)

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Session 7: 

Online and blended learning (e.g. Digital assessment) (TF-EDU host Nathalie Roth)

Bernard Cerutti, UNIGE: Examples of exam formats and contents switching paradigm at the University of Geneva

Urgent public health requirements measures taken by the national and local Swiss authorities in response to the Coid-19 pandemic have significantly impacted the organisation of the exams at the University of Geneva. While the general setting has been defined by the chancellor, the different faculties were quite independent regarding the changes to be implemented. Some practical situations will be presented.

Jon Eliot Stromme, UNIT: Cooperation as key to successful Corona-time exams

In Norway, university exam administrators took in stride the massive relocation of exams from central locations to students' homes. Cooperation and mutual support between institutions were key to the success. Several factors enabled the cooperation. A large part of the exams was already digitised. Universities and students had the necessary digital experience. Private and public universities and colleges had been working with digital exams on a national level for years - active working groups and forums already existed. UNIT, acting as national coordinator, chose to concentrate on generic risk assessment and a very simple common information exchange. This mode of work was effective within the strained resources of the universities and colleges, adding to the existing optimism, a "we can do it" attitude, and a lot of answers to large and small questions being found rapidly.

Open discussion and questions

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Session 8:

Open session for any discussion that may arise from the plenary and parallel sessions 

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Sessions’ summary

Host: Esther Wilkinson (Jisc)

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5’ each

Session hosts presenting the summaries.

Outcomes and conclusions (wrap up): What are we taking with us in to the future (document linkSUMMARY)