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What is Federated Identity Management

Chapter 107
Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
An approach by which a set of service providers, explicitly linked by a reciprocal trust relation (a circle of trust), agree to support a scheme where the user does not have to establish his/her identity at every attempt to access a different service, but does so just once (also known as SSO, Single Sign-On). In the “circle”, providers have two profiles, the service provider and the identity provider. The service provider will accept as valid identifiers those of a user, which has been previously authenticated by an identity provider, so that the user will transparently access the service without having to do an authentication step
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Virtual Communities and Collaborative Learning in a Post-Graduate Course
Maria Ranieri (University of Florence, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch107
Abstract
In this chapter I will discuss some of the main issues arising from online collaboration, through the presentation of a methodological model of a post-graduate course based on online collaboration. The model was developed over the last ten years, and implemented at the Laboratory of Educational Technology (LTE) of the University of Florence, with the aim of promoting effective online collaborative learning groups.
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