Pilot Summary, September 2015 (.pdf) Presentation at 2014 Internet2 Global Summit (April 8, 2014) |
Pilot target constituents: (Community colleges or K-12 schools/districts)
Federated Services for K12 with a cohort of districts composed of the Illinois inBloom Pilot Districts and 35 additional Illinois school districts representing near 20% of the student population across the state.
Pilot Scope: (number of IdPs / size of constituents)
Data, IAM, and UI integration are three critical administrative and functional requirements and needs that must be fulfill for each school district participating. The cooperative approach adopted focuses on lowering thresholds for participation and adoption by employing a strategy to provide a set of central technologies for K12 school districts as federated services. The methodology and strategy focuses on an initial integration using a single pilot school district to establish implementation strategies and model(s) as template(s) for subsequent school district adaptation and implementation.
Initial Pilot Goals: (benefits and desired outcomes)
The key functional goals include three federated service integration point options:
The key operational objectives are to implement a sustainable model that enables a community of school districts to adopt federated applications and services using interfaces and implementation strategies supporting local systems and private/public cloud services focused on enhancing and enabling school districts to embrace the challenges of delivering personalized learning.
Targeted start and end dates for initial pilot:
As an on-going and perpetual endeavor, the IlliniCloud from inception to date, has lead efforts to forge ahead on a path to make technology “by K12 for K12” cost-effective and available to their community of educators and school districts. Their community orientated approach and philosophy has resulted in technology infrastructure and an organizational entity benefiting from a unique perspective and a role, leading a cooperative of schools districts. Illinois school district 87 (SD87) and school district unit 5 (SDU5) are founding members of the IlliniCloud cooperative and are the Illinois inBloom Pilot school districts, in this capacity as early adopters of federated service model (via inBloom), they have been actively engaged to implement three central services that enable cooperative peers to benefit from and integrate with focused on lower the threshold to adoption.
The Q/InC pilot the focus is specifically targeting federation-to-federation services and modeling identity access management for K12 school districts as a centralized collection of administrative interfaces enabling individual school districts to manage their relationships with federated services. The projected high-level milestone dates being targeted for the IAM service are as follows:
Fourth Quarter 2013:
First Quarter 2014:
Second Quarter 2014:
Post-pilot longer term goals: (plans for expansion)
Beyond June 2014:
Federation model selected for project:
Federation-to-Federation
InCommon Affiliate assistance/role in pilot: (if applicable)
Two InCommon Affiliates have been engaged to help address requirements and implementation of solution components: 1) Aegis Identity has been selected to provide the essential central integration and implementation of the K12 Federated IAM service that will be constructed on the foundation if TridentK12; 2) Unicon has been engaged to help address the central AppPortal implementation that will provide a foundation for school districts to mash-up a variety of applications and services with a potential to provide a rich SSO user-experience.
Targeted applications or cloud services: (Canvas, InBloom, internal, etc.)
The potential embodied in the vision to establish an operational model that would allow K12 organizations to benefit from provisioning federated services is exciting and the IlliniCloud is positioned and well postured to expand an existing service portfolio designed to support and enhance K12 organization’s capacity to realize the benefits of the cooperative model and founding principles. The spectrum of services potentially beneficial for K12 school districts is inclusive of most, but for this initial Q/InC K12 Pilot focus the targeted services are limited to a single K12 school district (SD87) and include services (ie., SIP), applications (ie., Canvas), and other federated service providers (ie., inBloom).