Summary presentation to JISC-CETIS workshop for projects in the Distributed VLE programme. Our W2C project will demonstrate and evaluate the potential of Widgets, institutional Web-services and Cloud-hosted services for delivering Manchester Metropolitan University’s vision of convenient, integrated and extensible learning systems.

1. Monday, September 13, 2010 1 W2C: Widgets, Web- & Cloud-servicescontext | benefits | technologies | help Professor Mark Stubbs Head of Learning & Research Technologies m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk | http://twitter.com/thestubbs W2C Project Bloghttp://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c

2. w2c | context Institutional-level test bed for Widgets, Web + Cloud-services in context of institutional transformation EQAL: new curriculum, new systems, new processes Strand 1: new curriculum framework Strand 2: new admin systems & business processes Strand 3: seamless student access new VLE + enhanced Portal (inc. Mobile) + staff dev Strand 4: revised QA / QE http://www.blogs.mmu.ac.uk/eqal

3. w2c | benefits B1: enhance capability of our VLE B2: enhance user satisfaction of learning systems B3: heighten awareness of engagement & success B4: facilitate discovery of learning resources B5: accelerate community of practice for widgets.edu B6: improve information available to others like us http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c

4. w2c | technologies .NET WCF REST Mobile SharePoint apis.mmu Widgets WebParts WebServices getPcAvailability getHandIns Moodle CampusM Widgets getEnrolments WebServices WebServices getVleNews getVleUsage Mobile Talis Aspire ... Native Apps WebServices iPhone, Android, Blackberry Hosted SharedServices Agresso Scientia SAP

5. w2c | help Please can we have a reference widget that Collects from a Moodle container the authenticated user ID the course ID of the current context Calls a dummy web-service with user & context ID Stores securely a secret word for generating tokens for calling a private web-service