OpenID - online identity for the social network generation of learners and researchers November 8, 2007

Web 2.0, Learning 2.0 and the moves towards Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are encouraging members of UK educational institutions to make increasing use of mainstream Web 2.0 services delivered from outside the sector as part of their everyday teaching, learning and research activities.

The growing importance of virtual research teams, shared delivery of courses across institutions, a more mobile student base of 'digital natives', and the need to support more seamless transition between the different phases of lifelong learning means that we are beginning to see fundamental changes taking place in the educational landscape.

The successful management of identity in this landscape will play a critical role in delivering a coherent experience for our learners and researchers. It is likely that we will see the identity management landscape moving from a national or institutional orientation to a more highly distributed and user-centric one.

This meeting will begin to ask questions like: What are the fundamental changes taking place in our educational landscape? How ready are institutions to deal with those changes? What role do OpenID and related technologies have to play in our institutional and external services in the future? What are the issues, challenges and potential pitfalls in their use?

The primary aims of the meeting are to:

* raise awareness (why is OpenID of interest?);
* discuss issues (what are the problems with OpenID?, how can it be implemented?);
* help to influence practice and inform policy at both institutional and national levels.

Who should attend?

The meeting will be of interest to technical staff within university computing services, systems librarians, learning technologists, elearning vendors and publishers selling into academia, and national bodies (such as JISC and Becta).
Who is speaking?

The day will feature the following speakers:

* David Recordon, Six Apart
* Gavin Bell, Nature Publishing Group
* Nicole Harris, JISC
* Scott Wilson, JISC CETIS
* Sean Mehan, UHI
* Andy Powell, Eduserv

The day will allow questions to all speakers, and will end with an open panel discussion.

A programme and details about speakers and their presentations are available
When?

Thurs 8th Nov 2007
Where?

The Hatton, 51- 53 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8HN UK

Cost to attendees: free.
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Official Website: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/events/openid2007