The Up2U Consultation meeting for uptake and future planning on 9 March 2020.
The Up2U platform is a learning platform offering a community-based architecture that allows to create a tailored online learning environment for education. The Up2U platform is currently funded by the GN4-3 project, but that funding is planned to finish at the end of April. We now need your input to help to determine the future offering.
In this consultation, we will introduce potential solutions for the continued availability of the platform, get your view on the proposed models and what would fit your needs better. Possible future models are either the creation of national instances and/or a centralised service offering provided via GÉANT.
Agenda
- UP2U Current status
- What we want to discover
- Who is using it today
- Who might use it in the future
- What a future offering could look like
- National offering
- Centralised offering - offerings, pricing, considerations
- Mentimeter questions
- Current situation
- If you currently offer UP2U or OpenUp2U is it centrally or nationally deployed?
- Centrally
- Nationally
- N/A
- If you chose to offer a national deployment what were the reasons?
- Provides more control over the exact nature of the offering
- Concerns over data privacy and security
- Easier maintenance and support
- Regulatory considerations
- Other
- If you chose to offer the central deployment what were the reasons?
- Lack of resources to easily deploy the offering
- Minimisation of costs
- Easier maintenance and support
- Prefer a pan-European offering
- Other
- What percentage of your institutions currently make use of the offering?
- <10%
- 10% - 25%
- 25% - 50%
- 50% - 75%
- 75% - 100%
- Future situation
- Would you consider offering the new version of Up2U?
- Yes
- No
- Would you want a central or a national deployment?
- Central
- National
- What proportion of your institutions do you estimate would use it?
- <10%
- 10% - 25%
- 25% - 50%
- 50% - 75%
- 75% - 100%
- How would you expect to fund the offering?
- Grant funding
- Central government
- GEANT project
- Users would pay
- Other
- Would you be prepared to pay for a central offering?
- Yes
- No
- What level of fee would be acceptable?
- < .50 euros/user/annum
- < 1 euro/user/annum
- < 2 euros/user/annum
- <5 euros/user/annum
- < 10 euros/user/annum
- What would be your preferred pricing model?
- Annual flat rate subscription
- Annual per-user fee
- Flat rate fee + annual subscription
- Other
- When do you think any deployment of the offering could begin once available?
- In the next six months
- Between six months and one year
- Between one year and two years
- Between two years and three years
- More than three years
- Are there any other considerations that could affect your decision to deploy or how to deploy?
- Conclusion and close of meeting