Metacampus - Unite!'s federated learning management system (LMS)

Presentations slides. Hoppe, Christian (2025). Metacampus - Unite!'s federated learning management campus. Presentation at the „U!REKA Day“ at 26.11.2025, Fachhochschule Frankfurt/Main, GermanyThe presentation introduces Metacampus, the federated Learning Management System (LMS) that forms the core of the UNITE! Digital Campus—a collaborative European university alliance. It outlines the development stages of the digital campus, emphasizing interoperability, strategic IT decisions, and budgetary planning needed to support joint teaching and mobility across partner institutions. Metacampus, built on Moodle, offers typical LMS features such as course organization, assessments, forums, and open‑badge issuance, but is not supporting video‑conferencing, large‑scale storage, and public certification. The talk highlights challenges in Unite! like heterogeneous Moodle deployments, external‑user access, and copyright concerns, proposing open educational resources (OER) as a partial remedy. Finally, contact information about the technical commission and links to related reports and publications are provided for further consultation.