Switch-AAA Info-Day 2009 University of Geneva Pierre-Yves Burgi Switch-AAA UniGE s contact person Head of the ICT unit IT Division 1
E-Learning projects Switch-AAA UniGE s Projects Automatic Lecture Capture, «Enregistrement et diffusion des cours en format audio-visuel enrichi» (1/04/08 31.12.09) Learning Objects Life Cycle Management, «Gestion du cycle de vie des cours en ligne basé sur l'environnement Fedora» (15.04.08 30.10.09) 2 Grid projects (2009 2010) Virtual EZ-Grid Swiss Grid Portal (Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid Swiss Grid Portal)
«Enriched» Lecture Capture System Benoît Burdet & Cédric Bontron To offer teachers a fully automatic enriched lecture capture system Teachers interfaces Product evaluation (SmartBoard v.s. Uniboard) 4 pilot whiteboard systems, since September 08 1 pilot system of the new (distributed) architecture, since December 08 3
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E-learning projects UniGE distributed lecture capture system 5
UniGE mediaserver s access in 2008 Monthly access of recorded lectures In average, 70 lecture recordings per week Corresponding data traffic in GBytes Trafic de données par mois 6
Collaborations Practice sharing on the architecture and chosen technologies UniGE is officially a member of the Opencast community Currently testing and interfacing our system with Replay 7
Online courses and learning objects life cycle management based on the Fedora platform Patrick Roth & Pierre-Yves Burgi Provide a transparent mechanism for managing and exchanging online courses and learning objects between different LMS 8
Current situation LOs Objet Pédagogique (LO) e-learning platform 9
Target LO transit Objet Pédagogique (LO) e-learning platform 10
Technical solution UniGE development USI LOR project development Fedora Harvest Ingest 11
Analyzing Dokeos LCMS 1. Before Dokeos LCMS (now) Each course stores its objects 2. With Dokeos LCMS (current development) Learning object oriented system Simple LO (document, question, post, wiki page) Complex LO (test, forum, wiki) Based on a kernel and on-demand applications LCMS (kernel Repository) WebLCMS (LMS application) E-Portfolio (application) Etc. 12
Dokeos 2.x: Based on a kernel and on-demand applications 13
Project Roadmap Done: Dokeos LOR general concepts UniGE-LOR install To do: Development of the Forum and Wiki LOs (on Dokeos) Develop ingest() and harvest() methods on each LO Install and test the USI PHP LOR module from Moodle Come to meet Patrick at eduhub days 2009 Tuesday, February 3rd 2009, 09:30-10:15 Interactive discussion session, AAA-Projects Search Ideas and Partners 14
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Grid projects Virtual EZ-Grid Team PM: N. Abdennadher (HES-SO) Partners: USI, UniNE, UniGE UniGE: B. Chopard, A. LeBoutiller, J.-M. Naef Goals Construct a desktop grid > 1 500 non-dedicated PCs Implement a reliable and secure platform by using virtual environments Apply it on concrete test-beds (medgift, NeuroWeb) 16
Grid projects UniGE s contributions Architecture layout (all) Server and client modules Deployment & update Check-pointing VM, libraries and token management Interfacing ARC with EZ-Grid Test-beds (medical application) Packaging, support, and dissemination 17
Grid projects Swiss Grid Portal Team PM: C. Pautasso (USI) Partners: CSCS, USI, SIB, UniGE UniGE: A. Quandt, F. Lisacek, R. Appel, C. Pellegrini Goals Build a fully functional Grid portal user interface Integrated with the Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid project Apply it on the concrete test-bed Proteomics Identification Toolbox SwissPIT (UniGE-SIB) 18
Grid projects UniGE s contributions Optimization and deployment of SwissPIT Design of portal components Integration of the SwissPIT application into the portal structure 19