Presentation of Horizon2020 program project "Up to University – Bridging the Gap between Schools and Universities through Informal Education (Up2U)" and National infrastructure of Next Generation Digital Learning Environment for Schools during the International Conference ALTA'2018 at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. https://ndma.lt/alta2018/en/

1. Challenges and Solutions in
Building National Infrastructure
of Up2U Next Generation Digital
Learning Environment for
Schools
Gytis Cibulskis, Remigijus Kutas
Kaunas University of Technology
ALTA2018, 5 of December, 2018, Kaunas

2. Up to University
To bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher
education by better integrating formal and informal learning
scenarios and adapting technologies and methodology that
students will be facing in universities
1. To assess the use of public and private cloud-based infrastructure services
2. To design and develop a scalable and flexible integrated “application toolbox”
3. To build and train the learning community for the specific learning context
4. To test the infrastructure service components and the application toolbox
through very large-scale pilots
5. To define an effective sustainability and exploitation framework
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3. School vs. University
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4. Up2U Consortium
18 partners
• Universities
• NRENs
• Infrastructure providers
• Commercials
12 countries
• EU
• Switzerland
• Israel

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6. www.up2university.eu 6
Next Generation Digital Learning Environment
From LMS to NGDLE
From a Walled Yard...
...to an Open Garden.

8. Application Toolbox Up2Universe
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9. Challenges for offering services
to Schools
GDPR
Every school wants it’s own VLE
Different Identity Providers are used (Google Apps for Education,
MS O365, epaslaugos.lm.lt)
Support and the updating of the infrastructure
Scalability of infrastructure to handle big amounts of users
Lack of teachers’ skills in using tools
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10. Setting up of Up2U infrastructure
Multi-tenant Moodle platform is established and offered to schools as
part of Lithuanian ENREN (LITNET) services.
GDPR is to be included into the general LITNET service agreement.
Integration of tools from Up2University toolbox has been started:
WebRTC based videoconferencing
H5P tool for interactive content creation
Owncloud
Nationalwide IdM (IdP currently via LDAP, in future – Saml2)
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11. up2universe

12. Identity Management
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13. Site with school
registration and
FAQ
vma.lm.lt

14. List of
Lithuanian
schools
https://vma.lm.lt/
mokyklu-sarasas
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15. Maintenance
dashboard

16. Moodle Health Check

17. Google Analytics

18. Pilot users and scalability testing
~70 schools has already activated their VLE at vma.lm.lt
~9000 users are already registered on the platform
National Olympiad of Environment protection took place in
November 20 on Up2U aplinkosauga.vma.lm.lt:
~120 schools
~1400 students
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19. Teacher training CPD
Special training session for teachers of Young Computer Users
School in October
CPD Module1 in Lithuanian language is approved as official
qualification development program
Trainings according approved CPD program ongoing in
November-December with 15 selected teachers
Fully online training program is under preparation and will start
in the beginning of next year
CPD Module2 will follow with covering more tools and learning
scenarios
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20. Questions?
Gytis.Cibulskis@ktu.lt
linkedin.com/in/gytisc
Follow us:
facebook.com/Up2Universe
twitter.com/up2universe
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