One day WorkshopConference

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Ian Bloor (Promotion/Dissemination) Jason
Ferguson (Software Developer)
MLE Development Team Information Services and
Systems De Montfort University http//mle.dmu.ac.
uk
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September 2000 - August 2002 JISC 7/99 Project
Building MLEs in HE

• Develop an integrated, personalised learning
  environment for learners at DMU.
• Technical feasibility ?
• User preferences and requirements ?
• Costs and Benefits ?
• Disseminate findings to the HE Community.
• Exploitation

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September 2002 -

• Operational service
• Transfer to ISAS
• 3 year Development Plan
• with VLE, Meta-Directory
• Continued dissemination to FE/HE

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MLE

• Aiming to provide a learner-centred view of the
  Universitys information systems and learning
  systems
• MLE development
• Providing seamless, personalised, secure access
  to separate data sources
• Modelling academic processes
• Working towards greater integration of systems

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MLE Development Tools

• Selection criteria
• Flexibility
• Control
• Scalability
• Initially chose Java, In-house development

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Reasons for Choosing uPortal 2.0

• It does what we want!
• Developer community
• Training
• Add-ons
• Credibility
• examples of successful implementations
• VLE vendors interested in developing links

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HTML Pages
Tomcat
CSS
Presentation
XSLT
uPortal Database
uPortal
LDAP
Personalisation
uPortal Channels
Business Logic
Firewall
RSS Feeds
XML Documents
Databases (Postgres)
Data



Broker
Admin. Databases

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Benefits of working with uPortal

• Separation of presentation and business logic
• Standard format/process for building and and
  adding channels - enables division of labour
• Easy to do standard Portal tasks, e.g. set
  personal preferences, bookmarks
• Confidence

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Issues

• Skills required Java, XML, XSLT
• Implementation of SSL

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