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An overview of the ECO architecture

Kjeld Loozen Reimer IT Solutions, Netherlands

Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) Project no.: 621127

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Starting point:

A lot of universities…

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Several MOOC platforms…

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• Improve each individual platform to meet the pedagogical requirements for sMOOCs

• One user account to access all platforms

• One single point of access/central course catalogue

• Learning analytics: Statistics on micro (user), meso

(course) and macro (ECO) level

Technical challenges:

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One user account

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EcoPortal: ecolearning.eu

One single point of access

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i.a.: • Login monitor • Resource consumption • Student activity monitor

Learning analytics

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ECO Identity provider (IDP)

Who are you?

Technical solution

Identity in the ECO context: • Email address • (Nick)Name • Preferred language • Areas of interest As approachable as possible: No mandatory fields

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ECO IDP Integration

IDP

EcoPortal

• User registration • User login • User profile

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ECO Backend

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ECO Backend • Course information • Course progress per user • Teacher information • Heartbeat

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ECO Learning Analytics

xApi Master

EcoPortal Google Big Query

LA Dashboard

ECO IDP

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Platform architecture technology

ECO IDP ECO Backend

Nginx

MongoDB

NodeJs

Microsoft Azure

EcoPortal

MongoDB

NodeJs Javascript

Protocols IDP • OpenIDConnect

(Google, facebook) Server Side API • OAI-PMH (Only

ListRecords function) + LOM metadata

• REST (ECO defined spec)

Learning Analytics • xApi (=TinCan)

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ECO wants YOU!

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Integrate ECO Identity Provider OpenId Connect protocol

Single Sign On: Allow enrolling/starting a course for a specific user using a url parameter http://openmooc.org/12345?ecouserid=65ffe312

How to plug in a new MOOC platform?

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Implement ECO server side API

• OAI-PMH: ListRecords • REST: /users/:id/courses • REST: /teachers/:id • REST: /heartbeat

• Implement ECO Style guide

colors, UI styles, etc

How to plug in a new MOOC platform?

Learning Analytics submit xApi statements

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Thank you!

Kjeld Loozen @KjeldLoozen k.loozen@reimeritsolutions.nl