Feide is a identity management system on a

national level for the educational sector in Norway.

Federated Electronic Identity for Norwegian Education

Tromsø, the world’s nothernmost university city

A service provider that is implementing FEIDE• FEIDE is managed by UNINETT

A portal owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research

National common gateway for easy access to everything you need to know about education• Course description repository• Occupations description repository, NEW• Learning Content repository• Learning content publishing framework

A concept based on the principle that every user in the educational sector - pupil, student or employee - receives a user name from their school, college or university, which can be used throughout the sector (both commercial and public services)

FEIDE is partly founded by institutions (campuses and service providers) and partly founded directly by the Ministry

One username One password Do not need to register information

at each service, automatic updates from campus information

Informed consent for personal data transfer

Familiar log-in page may increase security

Access for all Feide users No local administration of user database Feide handles login and gives high quality

data about users One contract with Feide eliminates bi-lateral

contracts with all identity providers

Goal: all public schools in 2010 Today

• Universities: All operative• University college: 75 %

• Upper secondary school (high school): 50% 100% during summer 2009

• primary and lower secondary school Only started

Based on SAML 2.0• (Not shibboleth witch is SAML 1.0 based)

Single sign-on All log-on is run through feide.no as a

middleware service All user data is controlled and

maintained on campus institutions (LDAP)

Bibsys.no (Sentralized library service)

Fag.utdanning.no

The chicken and the egg • The institutions hesitated to implement FEIDE

because the lack of services• The Service providers hesitated to implement

because the lack of users We have to identity providers in Norway

1. FEIDE.no: Education identity provider2. minside.no (mypage.no): governmental services

(Tax, medical information, address of residence, unemployment benefits etc…. )

Most ID-providers (campus) is using FEIDE password / username but with a local login routine and not single-sign-on • It would be better if they where using the

“FEIDE single sign-on” service for local services as well (LMS/VLE, e-mail etc )

• Then the user would already be logged on at external services

User are commonly redirected to an external login-page. This is bad usability and many users are confused by this

Data quality • Few attributes are mandatory• No attribute for subject or discipline • User role not suited for the primary and

lower secondary school (student, employee, faculty, staff, alum, affiliate)

Authorization to content• The publishing industries want to have

control of the business model Personalization

• My subject, my curriculum, my content Web 2.0 Get people together

• Same school, same subject A closer connection to the VLE

Personal identification number FEIDE username

(<username>@<organization>) User role (employee, student, member,

faculty) Name of the Organization the user are

connected to. (legal name, short name, common name)

Given name and surname of user (Username local institution) E-mail Legal organization number

7 universities, 46 university colleges • (210 842 persons)

Extensive collaboration on electronic services in higher education• BIBSYS and other library services• FS and MSTAS student registry systems• Administrative systems: finance, HR, archive, invoice, • High performance computing, super-computers and

grids Schools (865 000 persons, plus parents)

• 454 upper secondary schools owned by 19 regions• Around 4500 schools owned by 430 municipalities