Using a Shibboleth Trust Federation to create “Joint

Lessons” with LAMS

James Dalziel & Ernie Ghiglione Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE)

Macquarie University james@melcoe.mq.edu.au; ernieg@melcoe.mq.edu.au

www.melcoe.mq.edu.au

Presentation for Second International LAMS Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26th November, 2007

Overview

• Shibboleth Trust Federations• Australian Access Federation• LAMS Joint Classes demonstration• Muradora secure TLF object delivery• Questions

Shibboleth Trust Federations

• A Trust Federation is a combination of technology and policy infrastructure that allows different organisations to collaborate in a secure and distributed way.

• Shibboleth is the world’s leading Trust Federation technology for the education and research sector– Shibboleth Trust Federations are being rolled out in Australia

(MAMS testbed; Australian Access Federation), New Zealand, UK, USA and many other countries.

Australian Access Federation

• The Australian Access Federation project is taking forward the work of the MAMS (Shibboleth) and e-Security (PKI) projects to develop a unified trust federation for higher education and research– Policy and governance– PKI and Shibboleth production rollout– Adoption support, workshops, supporting systems, etc

• For details, see www.aaf.edu.au

Demonstrations

• Using Shibboleth and LAMS to create “Joint Lessons” across classes from different educational institutions– Without requiring IT staff assistance with accounts, etc

• Trusted repository access– Muradora (Shibboleth-based, Java front-end to Fedora

repository, XACML for authorisation)– Can be used for delivery of Learning Objects (eg, TLF)

Integration with NZ MoE ESAA

• The Demonstrations are based on the existing MAMS Testbed Federation

• NZ Ministry of Education ESAA project has joined the MAMS Testbed as an Identity Provider– Illustrates potential for connection between different federations

• LAMS example illustrates potential for join classes across different countries– Shibboleth enabling of LAMS supported by NZ MoE– Ready for real world trials in 2008

• Email me if interested (james@melcoe.mq.edu.au)• Thanks to NZ MoE for supporting this work

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Using Shibboleth in LAMS to create dynamic “Joint Classes”

Demonstration

For an animated walkthrough of LAMS Joint Lessons, seehttp://saturn.melcoe.mq.edu.au/lams2/docs/winks/shib1.htm

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Muradora: Shibboleth and XACML-based Fedora Repository

Questions