[OpenID] Event Announcement: OpenID - online identity for the social network generation of learners and researchers

[Andy Powell]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

OpenID - online identity for the social network generation of learners
and researchers

British Library, St Pancras, London, UK

Thurs 8th Nov 2007

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/events/openid2007

Web 2.0, Learning 2.0 and the moves towards PLEs and VREs are
encouraging members of UK educational institutions to make increasing
use of mainstream Web 2.0 services as part of their everyday teaching,
learning and research activities.  In addition, the growing importance
of virtual research teams, shared delivery of courses across
institutions, a more mobile student base of 'digital natives', and the
need to support more seamless transition between the different phases of
lifelong learning means that we are beginning to see fundamental changes
taking place in the educational service landscape.

The successful management of identity in this landscape will play a
critical role in delivering a coherent experience for our learners and
researchers. It is likely that we will see the identity management
landscape moving from a national or institutional orientation to a more
highly distributed and user-centric one.

This meeting will begin to ask questions like:  What are the fundamental
changes taking place in our educational landscape?  How ready are
institutions to deal with those changes?  What role do OpenID and
related technologies have to play in our institutional and external
services in the future?  What are the issues, challenges and potential
pitfalls in their use?

You are cordially invited to hear about and debate these issues with
David Recordon (Six Apart), Gavin Bell (Nature Publishing Group), Nicole
Harris (JISC), Scott Wilson (JISC CETIS), Ben Werdmuller (Elgg /
Curverider) and others.

We hope this meeting will be of interest to technical staff within
university computing services, systems librarians, learning
technologists, elearning vendors and publishers selling into academia,
and national bodies (such as JISC and Becta).

Attendance at the meeting is free, and the 50 available places will be
allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Andy
--
Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/
http://efoundations.typepad.com/
andy.powell at eduserv.org.uk
+44 (0)1225 474319