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DIVISION INFORMATIQUE

Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB

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New Technologiesand

Future Perspectives

Pierre-Yves BurgiHead of the

Information, Communication, and Educational Technology Unit

IT Division



Topics of the presentation

1. Swiss Technological Backbone2. UniGE’s Technological Infrastructures

– IT Department– Web– Portal– Digital Library– E-Learning

3. Ongoing and Future Projects4. Key points

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1. Swiss Technological Backbone

• Mission:SWITCH was established with the objective "to create, promote and offer the necessary basis for the effective use of modern methods of telecomputing in teaching and research in Switzerland, to be involved in and to support such methods".

• Members:All Swiss Higher Education Institutions, including state hospitals

• Registry for domain names:ending in .ch (Switzerland) and .li (Liechtenstein)

• www.switch.ch3

Switch Foundation: 1987-now



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Swiss Technological Backbone

© 2008, Switch

1 to 10 Gigabit Network



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Virtual Home Organizations (VHO) using Switch-AAI,a Shibboleth-based Single-Sign-On (SSO) system



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Switch-AAI: Principle



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More than 100’000 students have access to several tensof « Shibb-compliant » softwares

Step 1Step 2



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UniGE - Switch Info Day, Bern 31.01.08, PYB

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Other Web Applications

Valet

GMT

Service Providers in SWITCH-AAI

UniGE



2. UniGE’s Technological Infrastructures

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• IT Department• Web• Portal• Digital Library• E-Learning



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UniGE’s Technological Infrastucture

The IT Department …



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• 225 To (225 000 000 Mo) of data on tape, 45 To online• 10 To of Internet traffic per month• 24’000 e-mail boxes, with 80’000 e-mails sent every day• 600’000 Internet incoming connections per day• 600’000 spams + 2’000 viruses detected/filtered per day• 5 millions printed pages per year for students• 7'000 fixed net plugs and 200 km of wires• 660 Wifi Access Points• 12’000 Helpdesk phone calls per year• 11'000 software distributed to over 3'000 users per year• 75 employees• …

The IT Department in Numbers …



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• Online administration• Teaching services (e-learning)• Research services• Business intelligence• Scientific information management (digital libraries)• Personal Computer Environment• e-Governance• Communication

The Eight IT Strategic Initiatives 2008-2011



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The Web …



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Content Management System

(Lenya)

GoogleSearch

Appliance



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Set up of the new Web has required a strong collaboration with Rectorat and Faculties

After one year, 230 new Web sites

Old Web contained more than 500’000 pages



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Integration within the information system



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The Portal …

Authentification centraliséeUniGE single sign-on (SSO)

my.unige.ch

Softwares / databases

onlineservices

LDAPSSO



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(Customized) services available through the Portal:

Softwares / databases

dont 10’000 à migrer en priorité

Students• Timetable of exams• Protocols of exams• Room student accommodations (offers)• Online student’s administration• Registration to courses• …

Teachers/Secretaries• Timetable of exams• List of students registered to their courses• Protocols of exams• Management of course description• …



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The Digital Library …



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The Architecture



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Link Resolver http://resolver.rero.ch/unige/az



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Digital Repository (Vital – Fedora) http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch



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Mediaserver: About 10’000 documents, from 1970-now (mediaserver.unige.ch)



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E-learning …

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From R. Zemsy & W.F. Massy 2004



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Learning management systems:

Dokeos (dokeos.unige.ch) 20’000 user accounts 2’500 teachers 18’000 students 2’420 courses

Moodle (moodle.unige.ch) 6’000 user accounts 380 teachers 5’200 students 270 courses

Teacher’s involvement follows the principle of :

Stage of technology adoption

Adapted from R. Zemsy & W.F. Massy 2004

Enhancements to traditional course configurations

LMS

Learning objects

New course configurations

Stage of innovation

Time



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LMS Statistics (Jan 09)

Dokeos



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LMS Statistics (Jan 09)

Dokeos

Moodle



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Simulation tools:

Students can virtually explore interactively various environments. Used when:

• Manipulations can be dangerous (e.g. viruses)• Material is costly and/or limited, fragile• Labs are too small for serving whole classes

Examples of tools at UniGE:

• Virolab• Virtual microscope• 3D environments• …



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Biomedical simulation tools



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Virtual microscope



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3D simulation tools:Screen maintaining polarization

Polarized lens

Polarized beamers

Two views with different angles


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(Automatic) Lecture capture:



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Since September 2005 automatic lecture capture is possible in the large 30 auditoriums/rooms. This system allows to :

• diffuse face-to-face courses and conferences in live on Internet• archive and index captured courses on a secure server mediaserver• download captured courses on MP3 systems (podcasting)• integrate captured courses within Dokeos

This system is appreciated by students to

• revise exams• replay a part of a course• attend a missed course, due to either extra-professional activities (80% of students in 2006*), sickness, or course collision (Bologna…)

* http://www.unige.ch/rectorat/observatoire

DIVISION INFORMATIQUEUniGE mediaserver’s access in 2008


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Monthly access of recorded lectures

Trafic de données par mois

E-learning projects

Corresponding data traffic in GBytes

In average,70 lecture recordings per week


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Virtual Campuses (VC) in which UniGE is member:

• The Swiss Virtual Campus (http://www.virtualcampus.ch)• e-LERU (http://eleru.leru.org)• The Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe (http://www.vcse.eu)


VC Definition:

« refers to the online offerings of a university where studies are completed either partially or wholly

online, often with the assistance of the teacher »

(adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Campus)


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Virtual Campuses in which UniGE is member:

• The Swiss Virtual Campus (http://www.virtualcampus.ch)• e-LERU (http://eleru.leru.org)• The Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe (http://www.vcse.eu)


LERU Partners

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University of Cambridge

Université de Genève

Helsingin yliopistoUniversiteit LeidenKatholieke Universiteit LeuvenLunds universitetLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenUniversity of OxfordUniversité Paris-Sud 11

Karolinska Institutet

Universiteit UtrechtUniversität Zürich

Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg

Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgRuprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Università degli Studi di Milano

University of Edinburgh

Universiteit van Amsterdam

University College London


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Course in staff development, UniGE ICT Chapter 28.01.09, PYB37

Founded in 2002 by a group of 12 European universities with the objective of creating a common policy forum of top research universities in Europe.

It was extended to 20 universities in January 2006, totalling over 500’000 students and 100’000 staff. Main Objective :

“Promotes the values of high-quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research”

LERU Network


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What is e-LERU?


Began as a 2-year European Community funding

Total cost about US$ 1.5 millions

8 participating universities from the LERU network

Targets the setting up of a European Virtual Campus

Promotes e-modules and top-science talks

Participates in the implementation of the research-based education concept

Website: http://www.e-leru.leru.org


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e-LERU


Research-based education based on ICT

Portal http://eleru.leru.o

rg

« Watch » system

Database of free e-

learning resources in Life Sciences

Top Science High Level

filmed

conferences

E-ModulesOnline courses

Joint courses

Modules

from a

single univer

sity

Integrated to a curriculum

Freely accessible to all


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Sustainability issue of e-LERU


Advantages for the participating universities: Increase their training offer with modules from other LERU universities Encourage teaching collaborations Attract international students Bring in new technologies in the university through a mutual exchange of best practices Show their research and educative strengths through the Top Science program

Local team contribution in each partner university corresponding to 25% FTE

Membership: 8000€ per partner

Currently 7 participating universities for consolidation period (2009-?) :

DIVISION INFORMATIQUEExample of an e-module


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Environmental Pole (University of Geneva)

SUPPREM Team : R. Lawrence (Project Leader), A. Dubois, N. Efrancey Dao http://supprem.unige.ch/

about

Online interdisciplinary modules in Human, Social

and Environmental Sciences Cursus : Bachelor

Master Programmes Continuing Education

SUPPREM Virtual CampusSustainable development and environmental

Management



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Human Ecology e-course (SUPPREM) « Key Principles of Sustainable Project Development»

2 e-modules : Principles and concepts (1

ECTS) Methods, applications and

evaluation (3 ECTS) Objectives of the course:

Introduction to human ecology and interdisciplinary approach

& Evaluation of sustainable projects at the local level with practical exercises and case

studies (Sydney and Leicester).

Contacts: [email protected],

[email protected]


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What is the Swiss Virtual Campus?


An eight-year Swiss project

Total cost about US$ 160 millions

10 Universities, 2 Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and several Universities of Applied Sciences

Targets the setting up of distant education

Website: http://www.virtualcampus.ch


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Swiss Virtual Campus Milestones


2004 7/2008

« Setting up of the virtual campus »

« Consolidation period »

« Exploitation period »

1996-1999

Realization of the first 50 online courses-

Setting up of eLearning Competence Centers in each UniversityFinishing up 62 new online coursesAbout 20 projects have been transferred into sustainable teaching structures

Increase the rate of project integration into teaching structures

Swiss edu-HUB

July 2008 : End of the Swiss funding

« Setting up

National policies in ICT »

2000


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Integration of online courses (in the Swiss universities)


Adapted from S. Seufert & D. Euler (2006)


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Use of eLearning (in the Swiss universities)


Adapted from S. Seufert & D. Euler (2006)


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Sustainability issue (in the Swiss universities)


So far, of the online courses (from S. Seufert & D. Euler):

20% could be transferred into sustainable structures 20% still demonstrate a certain chanced for being sustained over 50% exhibit major hindering factors for their sustainability (integration, financial, technology, learning culture) 10% are anticipated not to survive

Online course costs between US$ 300 K and over 3’000 K



3.1 Ongoing Projects

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• New e-devices for teachers, integrated to the automatic lecture capture system• Generalization of the digital repository• New simulation tools• New concept of “learning objects”, sharable at Swiss level• Swiss grid• eduHub (Swiss assembly in e-learning)• Alumni tool• …



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Ongoing and Future Projects



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« Enriched » lecture capture system




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« Shared » learning objects


Today

Tomorrow

DIVISION INFORMATIQUECurrent situation


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Objet Pédagogique (LO)

e-learning platform


DIVISION INFORMATIQUETarget


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Objet Pédagogique (LO)

e-learning platform

LO transit




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Dokeos 2.x: LCMS

Learning object-oriented system




3.2 Future Projects (1/2)

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• User-centered interfaces with enhanced usability (Web 2.0, folksonomy, …)• More clever search engines (Web 3.0)• A “true” Portal

Web, Portal, with focus on:



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“True” portal (www.sabanciuniv.edu)



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Intelligent interfaces (www.omnisio.com)



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Intelligent interfaces (www.yovisto.com)



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Intelligent interfaces (Wald et al. 2007)



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• User-centered interfaces with enhanced usability (Web 2.0, folksonomy, …) and more clever search engines (Web 3.0)• Non-invasive e-learning (intelligent lecture capture)• Constructing a library of learning objects adapted to the faculties• Ubiquitous synchronous collaborative tools• Participation (more active) to Virtual Campuses• E-Portfolios, since age 15-

E-learning and digital libraries with focus on:

3.2 Future Projects (2/2)



4. Key Points

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Collaborations at National and International (European) levels is key to IT projects to keep abreast with ever-changing technologies Nowadays IT mainly consists in system integration and customization of increasingly user-centered applications Opensource software and open standards are key actors Open access (content) is entering the scene

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