Presentation by Kjeld Loozen (Reimer IT Solutions B.V.) in the context of ECO webinars on Sustainable business models for MOOCs: the need for cross-institutional cooperation, 28 September 2016

1. Webinar: Sustainable Business models for MOOCs
the need for cross-institutional cooperation
An overview of the ECO architecture
Kjeld Loozen
Reimer IT Solutions, Netherlands
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
Project no.: 621127

2. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Starting point:
A lot of universities…

3. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ARLearn
Several MOOC platforms…

4. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
• Improve each individual platform to meet the
pedagogical requirements for sMOOCs
• One user account to access all platforms
• One single point of access/central course catalogue
• Learning analytics: Statistics on micro (user), meso
(course) and macro (ECO) level
Technical challenges:

5. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
One user account

6. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
EcoPortal: ecolearning.eu
One single point of access

7. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
i.a.:
• Login monitor
• Resource consumption
• Student activity monitor
Learning analytics

8. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ECO Identity provider (IDP)
Who are you?
Technical solution
Identity in the ECO context:
• Email address
• (Nick)Name
• Preferred language
• Areas of interest
As approachable as possible:
No mandatory fields

9. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ARLearn
ECO IDP Integration
IDP
EcoPortal
• User registration
• User login
• User profile

10. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ECO Backend
ARLearn
ECO Backend • Course information
• Course progress per user
• Teacher information
• Heartbeat

11. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ARLearn
ECO Learning Analytics
xApi Master
EcoPortal Google Big Query
LA Dashboard
ECO IDP
xApistatements

12. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Platform architecture technology
ECO IDP ECO Backend
Nginx
MongoDB
NodeJs
Microsoft Azure
EcoPortal
MongoDB
NodeJs Javascript
Protocols
IDP
• OpenIDConnect
(Google, facebook)
Server Side API
• OAI-PMH (Only
ListRecords function) +
LOM metadata
• REST (ECO defined
spec)
Learning Analytics
• xApi (=TinCan)

13. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
ECO wants YOU!

14. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Integrate ECO Identity Provider
OpenId Connect protocol
Single Sign On: Allow enrolling/starting a course for a
specific user using a url parameter
http://openmooc.org/12345?ecouserid=65ffe312
How to plug in a new MOOC platform?

15. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Implement ECO server side API
• OAI-PMH: ListRecords
• REST: /users/:id/courses
• REST: /teachers/:id
• REST: /heartbeat
• Implement ECO Style guide
colors, UI styles, etc
How to plug in a new MOOC platform?
Learning Analytics
submit xApi statements ][

16. Elearning, Communication and Open-data:
Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning
Thank you!
Kjeld Loozen
@KjeldLoozen
k.loozen@reimeritsolutions.nl