Conveners
Digital ID Plumbing: Making Student Access Flow Across Borders: 4D
- Ann West (Internet2)
Description
Looking to explore advancements in digital identity management and student information systems across European higher education? This session covers the need to implement cross-border identity verification and access for international students in Swedish universities, automated course enrollment for European exchange students using eduGAIN and MyAcademicID in The Netherlands, and Norway's implementation of a shared Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. Together, these initiatives demonstrate the education sector's progress toward easing international student mobility while addressing key challenges in security, data quality, and institutional autonomy in an increasingly interconnected academic landscape.
In this TNC Talk, a technical solution is presented for the automatic enrollment of European exchange students in their selected courses at a host institution. The speakers will demonstrate how a student logs in to their home institution via eduGAIN and how OAuth tokens, issued by MyAcademicID, enable and secure the communication between institutions.
National identity schemes are often incompatible across borders, complicating access to essential services when moving internationally. IT systems struggle with verifying identities using localized attributes, causing inefficiencies, manual workarounds, and loss of student access. This is particularly problematic in education, where long-term access to academic records is necessary. Efforts...
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Ladok, Sweden's national student information system, has reached two key milestones that we wish to share: implementing mandatory account confirmation in accordance with the REFEDS Assurance Framework and introducing Account Linking, which enables international students to retain access to Ladok after returning home and losing access to their Swedish university account. In this presentation,...
