The Up to University project aims to bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher education by better integrating formal and informal learning scenarios. It is developing a next generation digital learning environment that is open, interoperable, and can be accessed through various portals and infrastructures. The project has 18 partners across 12 European and other countries and is funded for 3 years to develop minimum viable products each year. It sees open technologies, standards, and interoperability as key to allowing the environment and content to be sustained beyond the project's lifetime.

1. Up to University
The European Project to Close the Gap between
Secondary Schools and Higher Education
Peter Szegedi - GÉANT
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2. Sir Ken Robinson
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3. Standard movement

4. Industrial vs. Organic Education
• Supply the workforce
• Same age group
• Facing the front
• Fixed schedule
• Changing subjects
• Linear development
• Standard assessment
• Own interest and strengths
• Own schedule and rate
• Mixed age and culture
• New role of teachers
• Personalized assessment
• Roundtables
• Flipped classes
• Multidisciplinary projects
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Download vs. Sync & Share

6. In a nutshell
• EC Call ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills
• easy creation, mix and re-use of content, services, applications and
contextual data for interactive learning processes
• environments for new learning experiences and experimentation
• educational support services
• The key objective of our project is to bridge the gap between
secondary schools and higher education and research by better
integrating formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting
both the technology and the methodology that students will most
likely be facing in universities.
• Innovation Action getting 5ME funding from the EC for 3 years

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Up2U Consortium
18 partners
• Universities
• NRENs
• Infrastructure providers
• Commercials
12 countries
• EU
• Switzerland
• Israel

8. Next Generation Schooling
1. Personalized
2. Strong teacher support
3. Close community links
4. Broad and diverse
curriculum
5. Outside and inside
school involvement
• Create the right conditions
and children will learn!

9. Growing Digital Ecosystem
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10. From LMS to NGDLE
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From a Walled Garden...
...to an Open Garden.

11. Next Generation Learning Platform
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• Open Technology
• Standard APIs
• Value-add
• Scalable
• Modular
• Portable
• INTEROPERABILITY

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Learning
Management
System
Learning
Record Store
Learning
Analytics
WebSSO
AuthN and AuthZ
Up2U Learning Portal
Up2U INFRASTRUCTURE
File Sync
and Share
Content Aggregation
and Management
Up2U SERVICE BUS
App to
Universe
Digital
Rewards
xAPI LTI
OpenCloudMesh
LTI
SAML2
OAI-PMH
Content
Provider(s)
Repositories
Third-party
App/Infra
Stack
• Open Technology
• Standard APIs
• Value-add
• Scalable
• Modular
• Portable
OBI LIS QTI

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Your Preferred Portal
YOUR PREFERRED INFRASTRUCTURE
YOUR PREFERRED INFRASTRUCTURE
Your Preferred Portal
YOUR PREFERRED INFRASTRUCTURE
Your Preferred Portal
• INTEROPERABILITY

14. Up to University (Up2U) Project - Use Case
Next Generation
Digital Learning
Environment
Next Generation
Digital Learning
Environment Next Generation
Digital Learning
Environment
OOpenCloudMesh

15. Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) is a joint
international initiative under the
umbrella of the GÉANT Association that
is built on the open Federated Cloud
Sharing application programming
interface (API) - first initiated and
implemented by ownCloud Inc.
Taking Universal File Access beyond the
borders of individual clouds and into a
globally interconnected mesh of
research clouds without sacrificing any
of the advantages in privacy, control and
security an on-premises cloud provides.
OCM defines a vendor-neutral, common
file access layer across an organization
and/or across globally interconnected
organizations, regardless of the user
data locations and choice of clouds.
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Interconnected Private Clouds for
Universities and Researchers

16. File Sync & Share Platform
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ownCloud 10.x
plugin
Version 3.3
Version 10.0.3
oAuth2
WebDAV
GWDG
PSNC

17. File Sync & Share Platform
17
ownCloud 10.x
plugin
Version 3.3
Version 10.0.3
oAuth2
WebDAV
GWDG
PSNC
Version 9.1.6
PSNC
oAuth2
WebDAV

18. File Sync & Share Platform
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ownCloud 10.x
plugin
Version 3.3
Version 10.0.3
oAuth2
WebDAV
GWDG
PSNC
Version 9.1.6
PSNC
OCM OCM
oAuth2
WebDAV

19. File Sync & Share Platform
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ownCloud 10.x
plugin
Version 3.3
Version 10.0.3
oAuth2
WebDAV
Version 9.1.6
GWDG
PSNC CERN
Version 9.1.6
PSNC *Governed by CERN policies: only eduGAIN access, etc.
OCM OCM
oAuth2
WebDAV
ownCloud
10.x plugin
Version 3.3
OCM

20. Statement
”We strongly believe that all the tools and services the project is
going to use and/or make available (i.e. incorporate, design, develop
and test) must be sustainable after the lifetime of the project.”
• business plans and investigate appropriate business models using the
expertise of the Small Medium Enterprise and National Research and
Education Network partners and their contacts with third-party business
actors
• make it easy for new schools to join the Up2U infrastructure and ecosystem
that will form a federated market-place for the learning community

21. Schools’ interest...
Roadmap
t
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
2017-2018January
2017
2018-2019
December
2019
MVP 1
MVP 2
MVP 3Pre-pilot
Kick-off
1st GA
Amsterdam
Technical Workshop
Porto
Surveys...
MoU
Launch
MVP 1
Launch
MVP 2
Launch
MVP 3
Pilot 1 Pilot 2 Pilot 3 Production...
Subject Matter
Committee
Training
Development
Sustainability Plan
Trainings & Community Workshops...
Impact Assessment
2nd GA
EC Review Preparation
EC Review
Final
EC Review
3rd GA
Techincal Workshop Review Preparation
Technical
Workshop
WE ARE HERE

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