Drupal in Higher Education

A place to discuss Drupal in Higher Education

 

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This Group is a split-off of the Drupal Education Group and aims ito deal with issues and challenges that are unique to Drupal in post-secondary academic environments. This group has been founded as a result of Drupalcon San Francisco 2010 when it became obvious that there was a need for a place to extend the fruitful discussions that began there.

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Content organization in Drupal

Our university is moving our site to Drupal and I wanted to see if anyone had recommendations for organizing content.

Currently, the problem I'm having is that we have nodes of information that will be in different parts of the site and have the same title, but different information.

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Web Designer / Front-end Developer | Princeton University

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Not allowed

ABOUT:
Princeton University's Office of Information Technology seeks an experienced, highly motivated and innovative web designer to join its Web Development Services (WDS) group. The candidate must present an extensive portfolio that demonstrates well-designed, compelling, and usable websites. The candidate should be well-versed in the latest web techniques and trends and show a passion for design. This position is responsible for creating and implementing the visual designs for websites that WDS develops primarily for the Drupal content management system.

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DrupalCon Munich proposals for training/learning/education

Proposals close on May 11th. Please [edit] to add your proposal title, name and link if you post one about training/learning/education.

This year, there's no voting, which is really a GOOD thing! However, it would be great to built some discussion about the proposals to help the selection process. Here are sessions related to training, education or learning in the list of proposed sessions. Please leave a comment on them if you feel moved or have any questions to get clarification.

Training Your Clients with Easy to Create Video Tutorials - Rod Martin

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Web Administrator | Thunderbird School of Business

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Not allowed

The role of Web Site Administrator at the Thunderbird School of Global Management is a challenging position, reporting to the Director of Application and Information. The school’s goal is to establish and maintain the www.thunderbird.edu site as a world-class resource for its varied academic and business research audiences.

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Colleges and Universities, Join the Drupal Association!

This month I got approval to join the Drupal Association on behalf of my University.

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Drupal: Organizing Content for Multiple Audiences

Start: 
2012-05-01 13:00 - 14:00 America/New_York
Organizers: 

Join us Tuesday, May 1st @ 1pm EDT for the final webinar in our Drupal series.

REGISTER NOW: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/626554513

The range of audiences needing specialized gateways, content and pathways on dot edu sites can be difficult to manage. In this webinar, we'll discuss strategies which can help you tailor your site to a particular audience, both with and without user login.

We'll cover:

  • Configuring options for audience selectors
  • Implementing different designs to distinguish areas of the site for each audience
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Web Trainer and Community Manager | CU-Boulder Office of Information Technology

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Not allowed

The University of Colorado’s Office of Information Technology seeks applications for a full-time Web Training and Community Manager.

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Drupal webinar: Customizing Volumes of Content

Start: 
2012-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 America/New_York
Organizers: 

Join us Tuesday, April 17th @ 1pm EST for this information-packed webinar, after which we'll open up the floor for Q & A.

REGISTER NOW: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613265489

Universities often have content, such as research databases, which requires a lot of information to be presented at once. This can often be difficult to attractively display, and allow for easy search and discovery.

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Drupal webinar: Mitigating Risk with Multiple Content Contributors

Start: 
2012-04-03 13:00 - 14:00 America/New_York
Organizers: 

Tuesday, April 3rd @ 1pm EST
Register now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/950320081

In the higher ed web environment, there are often a wide variety of administrative users. While we want the creation and maintenance of content to be easy, we also want to guarantee that non-technical content creators cannot "break" the site.

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Drupal as LMS Initiative GSOC2012

Drupalcon was a great leep forward for education. Drupal is taking off in k-12, university and private sector training usage for the delivery of educational materials. A mixed group of people passionate about education and training got together for a learning management system (LMS) BoF at Drupalcon. You can read some of the conclusions of that group here http://groups.drupal.org/node/219814

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