Potential Use Cases
(please feel free and encouraged to add your own here. Building this library of use cases will benefit us all going forward.)
- Bedtime Story for K-12 Student Services
- Working with IMSglobal and integrating LTI and Shibboleth
would provide a great way for integrating a variety of web-based EDTECH resources that startups are developing or just now releasing that when combined are much more powerful than when used as standalone applications.
- eTextbooks
- Connecting 7-12 students to college level work in STEM fields.
Likely both practical as a short-term goal and attractive to decision-makers, funders etc. because it fits well with current political priorities._*
- Video and Library Content
Licensed video and library services content are being collected in a statewide repository for release to K-20 member institutions. The content provider needs to make certain that students and teachers accessing the content are from educational institutions within the state. They also do not want to maintain accounts for every K-20 user in the state.
If there were a statewide federation that included all K-20 institutions, users could access the content service provider and deliver attributes that would indicate that they had: authenticated at their home institution and identify the institution/school, the user affiliation (e.g. student, teacher, parent, etc.) and grade level.
6. Others
- Federated Permissions - Post Facebook The context was an alternative to Facebook but it may apply in this case as well.