slides for short 20 minute talk for VIHET 2011 gathering at RRU, March 30th, 2011

1. BCCampus Shared Services
Lifecycle and Sandbox
Service
Scott Leslie
Manager, Client Services - Open Education
BCcampus

2. Why Shared Services
• Optimize the benefits of educational technology applications and reduce
costs of hosting and service delivery
• Maximize institutional access to educational technologies while minimizing
redundancy
• Enable secure exchange of institutional student information system (SIS)
data to support delivery of programs and courses
• Research and pilot new and innovative educational technologies
• Complement collaborative and partnership program arrangements between
institutions

4. Current Shared Services
5 current (COTR, Kwantlen,
Moodle
NVIT, Selkirk, UNBC)
4 current (Camosun, CNC,
D2L
NLC, NWCC)
7 current (Camosun, Douglas,
Elluminate
VIU, RRU, SFU, UNBC, UVic)
7 current (CNC, COTR,
Adobe Connect Kwantlen, Langara, NLC,
NWCC, Selkirk, VCC)
as of October 2009

5. Upcoming Pilots
• Kaltura: Kick-off meeting April 29th in
Vancouver

7. Sandbox Service
• Place for shared experimentation for no
cost
• Primarily focused on LAMP-based open
source apps, but open to others
• Prefer apps that multiple people are
interested in over ad hoc requests

8. Sandbox Service
http://helen.bccampus.ca/