FORGE project

FORGE

Christos
Tranoris,

FORGE
scien4ﬁc
director

University
of
Patras,
Greece

IEEE
P1876
Mee4ng,
Madrid
22/10/2014

FORGE

Acronym FORGE
Title of the Project
Forging Online Education
through FIRE
Proposal Number 610889
Starting Date – End Date
1st October 2013 – 30th
September 2016
Duration (in months) 36
Total Budget €2,413,870.00
Total Manpower (PM) 231.7
EC Financial Contribution €1,699,913.00
Project Coordinator
John Domingue (Open
University, UK)

What is FIRE?
Future Internet Research
and Experimentation = FIRE
Learn more at http://www.ict-fire.eu/

FORGE
approach
to
eLearning
and
FIRE

•  Create
processes,
methods
and

tools
and
provide
an
ecosystem
for

introducing
the
eLearning

community
to
the
FIRE

experimental
facili4es

•  Promote
the
concept
of

experimentally
driven
research
in

educa4on

FORGE
core
architectural
en44es

FIRE Courses Widgets FIRE Adapters

6

FORGEBox
:
a
middleware
for
enabling
FIRE
courses

FORGEBox

Fed4FIRE

Portal
LMS

eBook

Provide
Interactive
content
(i.e. widgets)
Interface via
FIRE APIs
FIRE
Testbed

FIRE
Testbed

FIRE
Testbed

FORGEBox proposed architecture, positioned with other elements

Iden4fied
FORGE
challenges

•  Interac4ng
with
many
and
diverse
FIRE
facili4es

•  Media4ng
on
behalf
of
users
(learners/teachers/course

designers)

•  U4lizing
FIRE
APIs
(like
from
FED4FIRE)

•  make
the
reserva4on
of
resources
in
(different)
facili4es
easy
for
both

teachers
and
learners

•  to
allow
fast
experimenta4on
control

•  Allowing
mul4ple
users
sharing
the
same
experiment
resources

•  Handling
a
large
number
of
simultaneous
users

•  Knowing
the
iden4ty
of
the
user
who
is
currently
performing

an
experiment
that
is
ini4ated
from
within
a
client
web

browser

•  Accessing
resources
that
can
only
be
reached
over
IPv6
or
over

a
VPN

•  Avoid
breaking
the
logical
flow
of
an
educa4onal
experiment

when
the
user
behaved
unexpectedly

Iden4ﬁed
FORGE
challenges

•  Seamless
integra4on
of
widgets

•  Easy
crea4on
of
interac4ve
courses

•  iBooks
and
eBooks
integra4on
and
crea4on
of

widgets
ready
to
be
embedded
to
Apple
iBooks

format,
as
well
as
ePub3

•  Capabili4es
for
interac4ng
with
FIRE
resources

•  Interac4ve
capabili4es
such
as
quizzes,
Keynote

presenta4ons,
interac4ve
images

•  LMS
integra4on
as
web
content

•  LMS
Authen4ca4on
process
which
needs
to
be

considered

9

Approach
for
FIRE
enabled
courses

Pilot courses have been defined and will be used as
an interactive learning and training channels for both
students and professionals by raising the accessibility
and usability of FIRE facilities

10

Synergies
between
FORGE
widgets,
adapters

and
FIRE
resources

web
container

Lab
Course,

(LMS,
iBook)

Resource
Widget

Adapter

Adapter

Adapter

(Implements
speciﬁc

API,
eg
OMF,
OML,

SFA/
RSpec,
FRCP)

(1) Get widget
Content
(HTML5/JS)
FIRE
Testbed
(3) Interactive
Content
(JSON/XML)
Control via
specific FIRE
tools and APIS,
e.g.
FRCP/SFA/SSH
(2) Request
Content
(JSON/XML)
Widget
Widget

FORGE
proposed
solu4on
architecture

•  Input
so
far:

•  Iden4fied
major
challenges
by
described
courses

•  The
need
for
middleware
solu4on
to
support
the
hos4ng
of
widgets,
FIRE

adapters
and
which
solves
many
iden4fied
challenges

•  Iden4fied
actors
and
their
support
usage
scenarios

•  The
need
of
sharing
repository

•  Result:

FORGEB x FORGESt reA middleware solution enabling FIRE courses A marketplace for a FORGEBox installation

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FORGE
Project
FP7-‐ICT-‐610889

FORGEBox

Lab
Course

resources
Budon

Budon

txt

txt

Lab Course
descriptions
Import LCs
FORGEBox

control
panel

FORGE
repository

LCs
Widgets
FIREAdaptations
Administer
Widgets
layer

FIRE
Adapters
layer

Widget

Widget

Widget

Adapter

Adapter

Adapter

Import widgets
Import Adapters
Get LC description
Get widget
Content
(HTML5/
JSON)
FIRE
Testbed
Interactive
Content
(JSON/XML)
FORGEBox

managing
services

FRCP/SFA/SSH
FORGEBox
internals

Iden4ﬁed
actors

•  Learner

•  Lab
Course
Designer

•  Lab
Course
Assistant
/
Teacher

•  Widget
Provider

•  FIRE
Adapter
Provider

•  A
system
administrator

•  We
called
this
later
FORGEBox
admin

14

FORGEB xA middleware solution enabling FIRE courses
www.forgebox.eu
website
to
download
and

experiment
with
FORGE
technology

The
central
point
to
download
the
latest
release
of

FORGEBox
for
an
organiza4on

Experience
an
online
live
demo
of
accessing
on

demand
some
FIRE
resources
and
main
FORGEBox

capabili4es
loca4on
www.forgebox.eu/staging

Hosts
documenta4on/downloads/source
code

15

www.forgebox.eu/g

website
that
hosts
a

“Produc4on”
deployment
of
FORGEBox

where
we
will
host
our
courses

Open
Courses

No
SignIn
required

Courses
for
FORGEBox
users
only

need
sign
in

16

Deploying
FORGEBox

FIRE facility
Organizations
Learners
Learning community
Cloud

17

Sign
In
–
SSO
solu4ons-‐
Roaming
FORGEBox
users

Learner@A
www.forgebox.eu
www.forgea.xx
www.forgeb.xx
Learner@B
Learner@forgebox.eu
Access courses@
forgebox.eu
Access courses@
organizationA
Access
courses@A
Access
courses@B
All FORGEBox First Sign Up users and from Gmail, (Facebook, Twitter etc…)
users are by default Learners!
Organization A Organization B
SAML 2.0

18

FORGEBox
supports

•  User
subscrip4on

•  We
also
started
Oauth2
OpenIDConnect
scenarios,
for
example

Google+

•  We
will
also
integrate
GRNET
federa4on
sign
in
for
Greek
students

•  User
policies

•  Course
crea4on

•  Courses
LRMI
compliance

•  Courses
View
layouts

•  Course
automated
ePub
export
(experimental)

•  Widgets
integra4on

19

Course
Crea4on

Course Module
Title, Course module description
+(LRMI metadata)
Course Presentation Part
Title, Course text
+(LRMI metadata)
Title, Course text
+(LRMI metadata)
Course Interactive Part
Title, Course text, Interactive Part
+(LRMI metadata)
Title, Course text
+(LRMI metadata)
Course Interactive Part
Title, Course text, Interactive Part
+(LRMI metadata)

20

Courses
Views

ePub

21

Use
of
Linked
Data
-‐
LRMI

•  Hosted
currently
as
prototype
under

www.forgestore.eu

•  The
central
point
to
share
FORGE
ar4facts:

•  Widgets

•  FIRE
adapters
/
FORGEBox
Services

•  Interac4ve
courses

•  Manages
FORGE
ar4facts

•  Provides
a
single
point
for
FORGEBox
ar4facts

developers

•  Provides
and
API
for
easy
access
by
FORGEBox

installa4ons

FORGESt re

24

Prototype
examples

•  Secure shell access from web interface
•  Log viewer from web interface
•  Wireless nodes configuration and
monitoring
•  Networking configuration
•  Remote configuration of resources

28

Web browser
Secure
shell/logging
through
web
interface

Remote
machine
FORGEBox
Jetty
JavaWebApp
Web
resource
Java
class
proxy
ssh widget
(html/js)
Logviewer
widget
(html/js)
Content / web sockets

29

Approach
for
Courses
descrip4on,

implementa4on,
registra4on
and

execu4on

Lab
Course
descrip4on

(rdf
/
json
/
xml)

FORGEBox
LC
Designer

widgets
LCs
Widget
repository
LCs
Repository
LC designer
HTML5/JS
page

Widget

eBook

Widget

Widget

Widget

Mashup
design
HTML5 / JS
development
Publish
description
Import widget
Import widget
Save
description
Export
Generate

30

Lab
course
Import

process

Import

course

Import

course

descrip4on

Import

widget

ar4fact

Import
FIRE

adapter

ar4fact

Install
&

configure

course

Install
&

configure

widget

Install
&

configure

FIRE
adapter

More?
More?

yes yes
no no
Integrate

course

ar4facts

Test
and
publish

course
to

learners

What
we
can
bring
to
the
standard

•  Architectural concepts
•  Prototypes, models and software
•  Access to hardware and experimentation testbeds
•  Experience so far

THANK
YOU

Christos
Tranoris,
University
of
Patras

FORGE

hdp://ict-‐forge.eu/

hdp://www.forgebox.eu/g

hdp://www.forgestore.eu

FORGE project

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