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A teacher logs in to the school network, checks her e-mail, connects to TKI, and later joins a music teachers’ discussion group. Each requires a separate user ID and password. In all, she has 11 different virtual identities for the various services she uses. As several of these set password expiry periods, each to a different cycle time, she keeps a file on her computer (password-protected) of all the passwords she uses. An Architectural Framework can help her manage her Digital Education Persona. It could provide: a single sign-on to the sector as a virtual corporation, which would then give her access to all services for which she is authorised
a single institution sign-on, which would allow her institution to manage local services for which she is authorised
a virtual key-chain, on which she hangs the “keys” to various places she has volunteered to join (and which are nobody’s business but hers)
Many institutions, both schools and universities, have already given their students and staff a single sign-on that takes them anywhere in that institution. If a student is enrolled in more than one institution, he will get more than one sign-on. The government’s online authentication initiative will ensure government services delivered over the Internet are going to the right person and their privacy is protected. See also Motivation.
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