Minutes, K12 JTF Call of 20-Feb-2013
Attending
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (Chair)
Lee Cummings, Rockingham County Schools, NC
Karen BIllings, Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
Jim Siegl, Fairfax County Schools
James Werle, Internet2 K20 initiative
Mark Scheible, MCNC
David Bantz, University of Alaska
Keith Krueger, CoSN
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2 (scribe)
Carry Over Action Items
[AI] (Stephan) will share DC Schools use case outline or preliminary writeup with Mark.
[AI] (MarkS) email the list encouraging contributions to the recipe and
use cases
[AI] (All) review or contribute to the recipe and use cases
[AI] (Lee) will create a case study from a district perspective.
[AI] (Jim) will create a case study for Fairfax. This might focus on the
Shib aspect, with thought towards federation down the road.
[AI] (Jim) share textbook contract wording around single sign in
[AI] (Jim) get a volunteer with an instructional hat to read the primer
and provide feedback.http://www.cosn.org/Portals/7/docs/Publications/CoSNK-12ID5-15.pdf
DISCUSSION
Report from Quilt/InCommon Federation Workshop. La Jolla, CA, February 7&8, 2013 http://www.thequilt.net/index.php/events/246-2013-quilt-incommon
The Quilt/InCommon Federation Workshop was successful.
-Attendance of 60+
-Two tracks: one technical and one policy track
-Mark, David, James, and SteveO attended (on the call today)
Mark reported:
-There was agreement that we need a way to extend federation services to K12 and communtiy colleges or other smaller institutions
- Hope to use R&E network providers to fill the gap between InCommon and K12
-The regionals vary in terms of their constituents; some serve just higher ed, other also serve K12
-In some areas there is no regional, and the state university system works with K12 (eg. Alaska)
-Three working groups were spun up out of the workshop to help develop pilots for regionals to work with a partner and extend federation services
A. InCommon Quilt Pilot Definition Working Group
B. InCommon Quilt Pilot Technical Working Group
C. InCommon Quilt Pilot Admin+Business Working Group
-Hope to have a pilot program ready to accept proposals in a few months
-We'll see which models can be validated by pilots
David reported:
-One of the models being looked at within Alaska is a state-based federation that can join InCommon
-There would be one entity for the other participants in InCommon to trust, and that entity could represent the libraries and schools in the state
-There was discussion of how to present federation as something valuable to K12
-We should sell this as a bundle of cloud services of interest to educators
- And by the way, we can facilitate your access
-Services to emphasize are
- document sharing with good options (like BOX offers)
- portable portfolio for students
- LMS
- Statewide testing
- Eduroam for ready, easy WIFI access with encrypted connection
-Pleased to see the commitment by InCommon to facilitating multiple pilots that might implement different approaches
-it would have been good at the La Jolla workshop to have more interaction with K12 educators or school district people
-We are building something we hope will be valuable, but don't have enough interaction
SteveO:
-Agreed, we count on the regionals' contacts /relationships w K12
-Having a regional partner with a K12 partner or a community college system partner is a key
-Pilots will focus to some degree on bundles of cloud services already available by Internet2 Net+
-The pilots may include small bundles of Net+ cloud services
-Hope to have Call for Proposals for Pilots within a few months.
-Hope to have pilots underway by Fall 2013, at start of the new school year.
K-12 Federated Identity Management Roadmap & Use Caseshttps://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/K12FedIAMTF/K-12+Roadmap
Work on roadmap and use cases is becoming more prominent as we formulate the pilots
-Mark has done much work
-Mark noted that we may get some use cases from MOREnet
Jim has a technology school use case he may contribute
Other Topics
The MOREnet LearningExpress Library is of broad interest to K12http://www.more.net/content/learning-express-library
Karen: there is interest in the Dept of Ed Learning Registry (a way of connecting resources to each other)http://www.learningregistry.org/
The Learning Registry is a forum where everything is openly available, there is licensed content
So no authentication hook is needed
It's a peer to peer content distribution mechanism without restriction
In the future it may be useful to have someone from the inBloom Foundation join a call:https://www.inbloom.org/faq
Keith can help make that connection
There will be a session on Federated Identity at the CoSN Conference in San Diego in Marchhttp://www.cosn.org/Events/2013CoSNConference/tabid/13571/Default.aspx
Next Call: Wed. 20-March-2013 at 3pm ET
Wiki: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/K12FedIAMTF/Home