A presentation given at FAM10 in Cardiff during October 2010.

1. InFAMy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me! or... what current trends tell us about the future of ‘federated access management’ in education Andy Powell, Eduserv @andypowe11 FAM10, Cardiff 5, 6 October 2010

2. Intro where are we now... / the working assumptions of the UK Federation have been with us a long time / FAM (as we know it today) has an uncomfortable fit with the wider web we see around us / arguably better fit with ‘enterprise’ solutions? / but discomfort of institutions as ‘enterprises’

3. Financial pressure financial pressure... / budget cuts / job losses? / institutional and national ‘business cases’ will become more critical / might argue that institutions will become more enterprise-like / ...but think this will be very resisted image: swamysk @ Flickr

4. Outsourcing outsourcing... / e.g. Google mail/apps / the ‘new normal’ / for students currently / but why not for staff? / at what point is ‘identity’ also outsourced? image: M i x y @ Flickr

5. Expectation mis-match expectations... / the mashable experience / user - privacy / provider – terms & conditions vs. day-to-day practice bjornmeansbear image: Axel Bührmann @ Flickr

6. Mobile mobile... / by <insert date here> mobile access to internet will have overtaken desktop access / mobile devices may or may not become the primary route to learning and research – but they will play a bigger part / what is the user-experience of SAML like from an iPhone app?

7. Open agenda the ‘open’ agenda... / open source – interesting tension with financial pressure above / open access – impact on the primary use-case for FAM? / open science / OER / ‘open’ doesn’t mean ‘access management not required’ but it might change the nature and positioning of the requirement? image: dullhunk @ Flickr

8. PLE personal learning environments (PLE)... / a more open approach to provision of learning technology / letting the learner (and the lecturer) construct their own VLE using external services of their choice / typically associated with ‘Web 2.0’ image: abardwell @ Flickr

9. OER and APEL the changing nature of ‘course’ and ‘customer’... / disaggregation of course delivery from accreditation / changing relationship of students to universities / increasingly ‘migratory students’ / changing customers of ‘academic’ publishers

10. Overseas students globalisation... / overseas students / greater collaboration between institutions (nationally and internationally) / research collaborations / dealing with multiple federations Swansea Photographer image: Swansea Photographer @ Flickr

11. Usability usability... image: shbib @ Flickr

12. The portal problem usability... / the portal solution... / an attempt to control the user experience end-to-end / but the web just isn’t like that / WAYFless URLs are an abomination / the portal is (part of) the ‘problem’! image: dmolsen @ Flickr

13. Usability usability... / Kantara ULX work / some really interesting developments here / but... scalability? / and... the ‘publisher’ problem

14. Consolidation consolidation... / of providers - Google, Facebook, ... (the ‘First bus’ effect?) / and technology – OpenID, OAuth / |_[]R[) image: andypowe11 @ Flickr

15. Single sign-on institutional login... / single sign-on within the institution image: BuildArk @ Flickr

16. Conclusions conclusions... / ‘education’ is a relatively small fish in a big pond / mainstream approaches will win (in the end) / for EduservOpenAthens ... Google are as big a threat as Shibboleth (and the same is true for Shibboleth) / current financial climate will have an effect somewhere / institutions are probably becoming more enterprise-like but still not totally like commercial organisations / tend to occupy an uncomfortable space between the ‘enterprise’ and the ‘social web’ (e.g. PLE and open science) / the relationships between students (and staff) and institutions are changing image: robotson @ Flickr

17. Thank you Thank you (with apologies to Kenneth Williams and whoever owns the copyright on this image!) FAM10, Cardiff 5, 6 October 2010