Archive for November, 2007

Second Life & Chichester – come and visit!

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Earlier this week, I attended a meeting at City University to look at how UK universities are using Second Life. There were interesting presentations from the Universities of Hertfordshire, Edinburgh and Manchester Metropolitan and demonstrations showing different ways of integrating SL into e-learning.

Many of you will be aware of Second Life, the Internet-based virtual [...]

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OpenID and Higher Education

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Emerging from the gloop of e-Learning Benchmarking, I’ve escaped to London for a couple of interesting meetings – first up, OpenID.

Q. What links all these companies & organisations?
A. They all use OpenID

Most IT systems nowadays use a form of single sign-on (SSO) authentication to remove the need for users to log into each separate [...]

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