FIDIS Identity Blog

by Stephen Hoare Tuesday June 19, 2007 The Guardian

Universities have welcomed open access learning platforms that widen student participation, but their arrival has left campus intranets, and all the sensitive details they contain, dangerously vulnerable to hackers.

But now the sector's IT specialists are moving to close the gap through the Identity Project run by the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc). ...

to article: http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,2105795,00.html

Maybe our friends from LSE (London School of Economics) know about this initiative and would be able to provide us with more details on this initiative?

Concerning the context of academia, I would like to mention the work conducted within the context of the SCORM e-learning standards for representing the student information in elearning systems.

see: IMS LIP (Learner information Package) http://www.imsglobal.org/profiles/

thierry

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