Opening GLOW by John Johnston and Ian Stuart ALT Scotland SIG Open Education Open Scotland event, Edinburgh, 3 June 2014

1. Opening Glow
John Johnston & Ian Stuart
Glow product Owners

2. Glow is the Scottish Schools National Intranet. This is a
major national ICT and telecommunications programme
managed by Education Scotland. The funding for Glow
came from the Scottish Government and the project is a
collaboration between local authorities, Education
Scotland and RM Education.

4. Glow 2007
Sharepoint 2003

5. 2010
Wikis and Forums and Blogs, Oh My!

6. ICT excellence Report
January 2013
• The Excellence Group recommends that there should
continue to be a Scottish schools digital learning
environment. The new service should be as open as
possible, with only personal and procured content and
services behind an authentication barrier.
• Ensure that system analytics are openly accessible and
easy to use for all users and the interested public.

9. Layer 3 – everything else
Structure
Layer 1 - Integrated Services (via SSO, API,
Oauth etc.)
Layer 2 – not integrated but supported
Core Services
Identify Management &
Storage Service
?

10. Operating Conditions
Open Wi-Fi for All Fast broadband
Guidance on
filtering policy
Bring your own
Device/Technology
Focus on Education/
Internet Safety

11. • MS365: Not open by default or in its current
setup
• Other migrating services, Glow TV, Blogs
• Services being replaced, wikis
• All in safety mode in the first instance,
secure then enhance, this leads into the
Glow Now

12. Glow Future
• As yet unnamed project, here lies our wiggle
room but patience is needed.
• Both of us are committed to working in the
open....
• Why is this presentation not in glow,
because glow is not yet open enough to
share with you...

13. Open Glow: Interesting Problems
• data protection
• child protection
• engagement of teachers
• government, ip
• local authorities ip (income generation)

14. Getting to Open
• The technology is the easy
bit, culture is harder we
need help from folk further
along the road.

15. John Johnston & Ian Stuart
Glow product Owners