Campus Canada: Secure Validations of Competence Assertions

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Campus CanadaSecure Validations of Competence
Assertions

• Griff Richards, Marek Hatala
• Simon Fraser University Surrey
• Peter Donkers
• Campus Canada

TenCompetence, Sofia, Bulgaria, 30 Mar 2006
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Campus Canada
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Campus Canada

• Consortium
• smaller universities,
• regional colleges and
• employer organizations
• Focus on life-long learning
• Bridging workplace and academic opportunities

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Life-long learning
Work
College
School
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Record of Learning

• Permanent personal record
• Accessed through e-portfolio
• Validated records
• academic transcripts
• foreign evaluations
• workplace credits

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Four questions

1. How do you create an e-portfolio of authenticated
   records that can continue to grow with learner?  
2. How do you keep college Registrars in control of
   transcripts?  
3. How can workplace trainers be encouraged to
   participate?
4. How to ensure security and protection of privacy
   in a distributed federation?

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Previous Prototype

• Compile a statement of record
• Submit for validation
• Clerk contacts each source and validates every
  record
• Secure signed document placed in e-portfolio

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Problems

• 1. Labour intensive
• 2. Difficult to validate old records
• 3. Difficult to validate foreign records
• 4. Difficult to update
• 5. No audit trail

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Prototype 2006

• 1. Work with individual assertions
• 2. Work directly with
• institutions
• foreign credential evaluators
• employers
• 3. Audit trail of signed pdf documents
• 4. Provide on-line verification
• 5. Certificate-based authentication

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Work Flow - Validate
Learner
RoL system
University
Viewer
Create assertion Request validation
Notify Univ.
Verify ID Transcript Send PDF
Store PDF v assertion Notify Learner
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Work Flow - Verify
Learner
RoL system
University
Viewer
Use assertion In View
Notify Viewer
Browse view See PDF Verify?
checksum PDF Yes / No
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Work Flow - Revoke
Learner
RoL system
University
Viewer
Locate RoL Revoke PDF Message
annotate PDF Not Valid Message Learner
Verify?
Aaarrrgh!!!
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Work Flow - WS Load
Learner
RoL system
Workplace
Viewer
Register Learner(s) Generate class list Match to
ID Sign/Send PDF/XML
Permission
RoL ID
store PDF Message Learner
Yes!!!
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Status

• 1. Prototype done tested
• 2. Integration with live site in progress
• 3. Usability Review in progress
• www.campuscanada.ca

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Future Work

• 1. Update Interface
• 2. Field Test
• 3. Re-code e-portfolio component
• ?. Competence definitions standards
• 4. Deploy for select occupation groups
• Bank clerks, Police, Military
• 5. e-transcript exchange service

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Questions?
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Thank you

• griff_at_sfu.ca