Design and Development of a Scalable Policy Management Module in a Meta University Framework

The notion of a meta university promotes the concept of inter-space cooperation and resource sharing; thus, a policy management system needs to be in place to enhance their security and governance. This paper details the policy management module design for the meta university system, the system development by implementation of Flask for web application and the Open Policy Agent for policy management. The module integrates role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism policies created in Rego for dynamic and hierarchical level access control management to limit and permit certain actions to certain persons only depending on the role assigned to them. Unit and performance testing have been done and the modules results given effectiveness and scalability evaluation of the policy management mechanism on the meta university framework contributes to the wider educational technology agenda as it offers a useful policy management application for meta university framework. DOI:https://doi.org/10.52783/pst.1662