Members of Drupal in Education
Below is a list of self-described Members of the Drupal in Education group. If you want to be included, please subscribe to this group and then EDIT this page and add yourself.
This list is sorted alphabetically by FIRST name (because you're more likely to know people by first than last name). As a guideline, each entry should include some or all of: Name, Company, location, related expertise/projects/sites, what you're seeking in this group, interesting factoid about you. Be creative.
Dirk Negen - Café de las lenguas - Maastricht, Netherlands
- I work as a language instructor and course coordinator at Maastricht University Language Centre and I created this Café de las lenguas for open language learning. Students who register, can set up groups, meet online and preferably in real life to practice their language skills.
- Previously I worked with drupal for a research project between three universities (Groningen, Ghent and Uppsala) and created an online learning environment for language learners at Maastricht University.
- It is my goal with this website to use drupal for open language learning for collaborative learning online and in real life by means of joining a Café de las lenguas nearby. Language instructors get another role and have the possibility to teach online. I created more content-types for them.
- I am always looking for people to join me in this project or who can give me useful feedback. This is still, unfortunately, an one-man's project, so any volunteers are always welcome.
Alejandro Garza - Center for Innovation in Educational Technology in Tecnológico de Monterrey university, México
- The Center mainly seeks to improve educational processes inside the university, and seeks to transfer that knowledge to local communities to improve education nationwide.
- Drupal projects involve creating a directory of OERs (Open Educational Resources) for improving courses, social networking sites for researchers, and a platform for mobile learning courseware delivery.
- Developed the Millennium module for libraries, and co-mantaining the Apache Solr module.
Aniruddha Pimpalkhare- Student Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn
- Currently working on getting together a Drupal based Learning Management System (DLMS) as a part of my final year thesis/project
- Trying to put together a DLMS with all the typical LMS features together
- Having good success with putting together a DLMS
Arman Anwar - CTO and Co-Founder - NewHelix - Washington, DC Area
- My company focuses of Drupal development for large sites.
- We have done some work for Universities
- The higher education arena is of great interest to me personally.
Bill Fitzgerald - FunnyMonkey in Portland, OR
- FunnyMonkey works primarily in education, with clients at all levels, from K12 to higher ed to professional development organizations to companies working in the learning space. We also work with non-profits/companies with an organizational mission that aligns with our goals.
- Author of Drupal for Education and E-Learning
- Teacher for 16 years; Technology Director for 10; always looking to collaborate with people who are passionate about developing and using good tools to support learning.
Bryan Ollendyke - (http://elearning.psu.edu/projects) Instructional Technology Specialist, e-Learning Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
- The e-learning Institute creates technology enhanced courses for the College of Arts and Architecture
- Lead programmer for the e-Learning Institute
- BS from PSU in '06, working towards MS. After attending Drupalcon Boston I've altered the direction of my projects at eli to be equally beneficial to the community and to our department / courses.
- Currently creating the Drupal user's group at Penn State and pushing the envelop on how Drupal is portrayed in education.
Chris Wells - Partner - Redfin Solutions - Boone, NC Area
- My company creates mostly medium to large, non-profit Drupal sites
- I am looking for others in an educational setting who work tirelessly to convince others how great Drupal is and learn more techniques for school-related Drupal installations (multisite, internationalization, intranet, etc.)
- Drupal could soon be the officially-supported CMS for Appalachian State University (I'm a graduate student there) and am doing my best to evangelize it
- My graduate work is in Technology Education, and I hope to teach programming, networking, and web stuff at the Community College level, and would like to leverage Drupal in my classes
Christina Callahan - Drupal Rollout Coordinator - University of Delaware
- 10+ years web development and design, Geographic Information Systems expert with experience in online mapping application development.
- 1+ year experience developing Drupal sites for personal-use, non-profits, and education organizations.
- Task is to immediately implement Drupal for use campus-wide, including but not limited to UD administration, college, department, unit, and faculty sites.
- Interested in connecting with others that have implemented a similar model of hosting 100+ Drupal sites, learning more about best practices, and how we can grow our Drupal community and in turn, contribute to the greater Drupal community.
Damon Cook - Instructional Technologist - Empire State College (SUNY), New York, USA
- Piloting Drupal for internal faculty/staff social portal and hopefully more.
- Case study coming soon...
David Colburn Consultant and part-time professor.
- Internet strategy, design and build services;
- Committed to web-standards best practices;
- New to teaching and discovered the horror that is "educational" software. Thanks to Bill Fitzgerald's book, I didn't have to swallow that bitter pill.
David Hamilton - CIO/CTO, Pasqualina's Gluten-Free Goodies, Virginia Beach VA, USA
- David K Hamilton (sorry, David L)
- Web administration for my wife's business (Pasqualina's GFG)
- I have just started using Drupal for a number of sites, some of which will also use Moodle
- 20 years in computer training (mostly Lotus Domino), 1 year with open source software on personal sites
- I have a number of ideas for projects that involve linking Moodle with Drupal, along with research collaboration
David Hamilton - Director of Web Services, Amherst College, Western MA, USA
- Managing development and maintenance of a medium-sized drupal instance for the last 2 years: www.amherst.edu
- Case study describing what we've been doing
- ~10 years experience working on web apps in higher ed, with stints at Bowdoin, Skidmore, and (currently) Amherst.
David Wees - Amateur web developer and Mathematics teacher - Currently based in Thailand
- I've been using Drupal to create a number of smaller sites that are portions of the overall web structure of my school successfully.
- I'm interested in developing a 'complete' package for schools where everything but the time-tabling itself is done in Drupal.
- I've created a number of modules in the past.
Doug Worsham - Instructional Technologist, L&S Learning Support Services - University of Wisconsin, Madison
- I am working on platforms for student collaboration and social lesson planning, and I really enjoy learning from the many many Drupal gurus this group!
Eric Hayes —Senior Tech Systems Engineer, Saugus Union School District, Santa Clarita, California
- I designed our public-facing site using Drupal 5, currently working on upgrading to 6
- Our IT department is focused on integrating open source solutions in the classroom.
Erik Britt-Webb - IT strategist, independent consultant in Boston, MA
- Working with Drupal for 3+ years, for nonprofits, schools, churches, personal, etc.
- Looking to share best practices with other Drupalers and help productize Drupal-based offerings
- Primary profession is Management Consultant, working with CIOs and IT leadership teams to improve the role and use of IT inside large companies
Erik Peterson - Associate Director of IT - EDC - Boston, MA Area
- My company is a non-profit organization that designs and delivers programs in all facets of education and human development.
- We build sites for internal and external use and have a large commitment to online learning (http://www.edtechleaders.org)
Frank Ralf - Hamburg, Germany
- I am working as a professional translator, proof-reader and project manager for a translation agency. I have some knowledge in localisation and internationalisation of web sites and software.
- I have been interested in web technologies for years and worked on quite some web sites. My most current project is the homepage of our primary school, for which we have just changed the CMS from Site@School (http://siteatschool.org) to Drupal: http://www.grundschule-heidhorst.de
- Exploring Drupal as e-learning tool for foreign language teaching
- Used to teach German as a foreign language in Japan for some time
Ian Lynch - Tamworth, UK
- Chief Assessor at The Learning Machine Ltd a UK government accredited organisation that awards qualifications in schools and further education in IT related to open systems, use of Drupal and other Web 2.0 technologies.
- I set up the INGOTs (http://theingots.org) International Grades - Open Technologies, project as a single focus to solve several problems.
- Improve the quality of IT learning in schools with more rewards for learners and less bureaucracy for teachers.
- Increase knowledge, understanding and capability in the use of open systems including FOSS, Open Standards and general understanding of intellectual property.
- Provide an income stream to support the development of free and open learning resources. (http://theingots.org/community/ITQcourse1)
- Establish an international standard for IT education and taiing for schools that bridges the academic/vocational divide. (Current developments will be compatible with the European Qualifications Framework)
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Project has some private investment funding and recently awarded an EU grant for Transfer of Innovation with that project worth 350,000 Euros and due to start 1st October. Partners in Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Spain. We also have partners in Malaysia, South Africa, India, Canada, United States. We are interested in hearing from anyone that thinks they can set up a sustainable business based on IT qualifications in schools or further education for adults in their locality.
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My background is that I am a qualified teacher, Physics, Mathematics, Physical Education. MSc in Education Management. I was a member of the team that devised the UK national specialist schools programme and I founded the professional association for independent school inspectors in the UK. I was a school inspector and led inspection teams for a few years back in the nineties. Won the Midlands Region Small Business of the Year Award in 2000 and a DTi Smart Award for software development a bit later. I was formerly British Powerlifting Champion and lifted for GB in 2 World Championships winning Silver and Bronze medals. Still get to the gym 3 or 4 times a week to keep fit but at 54 I'm doing more cardio type training than strength training these days and the INGOTs take up most of the rest of my time.
Jennifer Woodward - San Francisco, USA
- DOB 12/27/1944. Am I getting too old for this? I don't care! Back in the 1980s I was planning to get an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in AI, ITS (intelligent tutoring systems), and Ed-Psych, but got seriously derailed by an unknown worsening congenital heart condition. My aorta valve was replaced in 2000. Ouch! Mental recovery turned out to be slow but got better once I started anti-depressants in 2005.
- Before I knew I needed heart surgery I got a U.S. Dept. of Education grant in 1997-98 to start work on what became the distributed "Educational Operating Environment" (EOE) project. The EOE in part was (and still is) a "middle-ware" design to allow integration of "ordinary" commercial and open source distance learning with AI-assisted human tutoring and artificially intelligent tutoring systems. After surgery I was pleased to find Drupal in early development in 2001 or 2002 and thought it might well evolve into what I envision should be the EOE. I still think that is possible and plan to publish my notes on how the EOE might expand Drupal's use in a distributed environment, once I well learn Drupal 6 and 7 "core".
- I've been a self-taught programmer/analyst since 1964, when I became determined to use computers in the service of education as of my 3rd or 4th month (summer 64). At that time I saw a programmed instruction (PI) program running on a dumb terminal connected to an IBM 360 mainframe in a "shop" nearby to where I was programming an tiny desk-sized IBM 1440(!). Computers got smaller, faster, cheaper. I had a contract programming career and taught programming as well. In 1981 I foresaw the networking of PCs, networked distance learning a possibility by 1990, and I went back to school to prepare for the interdisciplinary "Ph.D" I wanted which did not yet exist. By my 1st BS degree award, 1986 BS/Computer Science with graduate courses in AI, I found myself too weak to apply anywhere "good" and study hard full-time. So I got 3 "lesser" but related degrees instead: BS/Applied Math, BA/Cognitive Psychology, MA Instructional Technology. To my surprise and disappointment no interdisciplinary Ph.D. program to my liking existed in the U.S. in 1990, or 1995, or 2000, and not until 2008! Hence my efforts to start building distance learning related object oriented apps on NeXT computers in the 1990s, when not teaching at our community college. After 2000 such apps had to be done in JS or Java (or PHP); I didn't have the mental focus for that much sustained detailed work then until 2005.
- Since Spring 2009 I've been getting up to speed on Drupal and Moodle and any modules that facilitate distance learning and LMS / CMS (e.g. phpEDU). I also take a few classes across the street at SF State U. to see if I still have my "academic chops" and if further graduate study is still possible and practical for me.
- I've been a member of the IEEE "LTSC" (learning technology standards committee) since 2000. I monitor as-if a senior or a 1st year graduate student (i.e. superficially so far) the proceedings of the International ITS bi-annual meetings.
- I'll do Instructional Design and content development as well as Drupal 6,7 installs and configurations for $$ to pay for upgrading my computer lab. I'll also critically review your educational site or course for a small fee.
- If you're over 50, y'all be sure to get your hearts checked frequently!
Gary Broyhill - Webmaster - Lenoir-Rhyne University
- Lenoir-Rhyne is a private Lutheran University of 1600 students in Hickory, NC, USA. We migrated from a traditional Windows IIS/Dreamweaver/etc. web site to Drupal 6 in 2008.
- Now using Drupal 6 in multi-site configuration for university's main web site. Currently building Drupal 6 intranet using LDAP to sync with campus network. We have 35 different faculty & staff editing their own Drupal subsites. I am relatively new to Drupal and doing a lot of catching up, but really enjoying it!
- Also planning to convert my 8-track tape website www.8trackheaven.com to Drupal this summer (2009)!
Geoffrey Gevalt- Writer, instructor, learner - Young Writers Project, a nonprofit in Vermont.
- Using Drupal 5 in main site that now has 3,700 Vermont student users. Students, grades 7-12, have created strong, civil community of peer-to-peer learners. Mentors and college students provide additional feedback.
- Using Drupal 6 in multi-site configuration to provide Digital Writing Classrooms for schools and after school groups to integrate into curriculum. Grades 4-12. Twenty schools and two after school groups; also using Drupal in collaborative projects -- one on Ballad Writing and another on Comedy Writing that will culminated in kids Variety Show and Radio Hour.
Kim Day - Web Developer - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN
- Using drupal to relaunch sites previously hard coded
- Enjoying learning about drupal and implementing its functionalities in an educational environment
Lauren Shawl - Instructional Technology Consultant - University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy in Madison, WI
- Offering opportunities for Health Sciences students to gain practice with with eRecords in health care, HIPAA compliance issues, and collaborating with a team of health care providers through a platform built on Drupal.
Mark Jarrell (attheshow) - Manager of Web Services - Jones International University
- Currently using Drupal for university sites, social networking sites, FlashVideo site for students
- Working on building an LMS module in my spare time to control node access to course content. This is still in the very early stages, but I'll be happy to share if anyone's interested.
Marie Raney - University Webmaster for Western Washington University
- Just beginning Drupal, but rolling out "template" Drupal sites to our departments this fall
- Been "tipple-fipping" to roll our own theme to match the graphic identity of our static (Dreamweaver) sites
- I also teach an VERY introductory term on Drupal to my Web Design students at Western
Mel Ausman - middle school tech and science teacher.
- I've been trying to use drupal with moodle to provide an alternative to the district's and school's current commercial web service that is very expensive. Also, want to add a file storage area for students to have access to work done at school to be easily continued at home.
Mixel Kiemen - MOSI Assistant at Vrij Universiteit Brussel - Belgium, Brussels
- Teaching:Web Service Development of Business. In this course students will develop a drupal module as part of a bigger web service development project. The course is given in the 1ste year Master of Management.
- Teaching: Exercises Databases (normalization & sql), I've been using the drupal DB for the sql exercises.
- Research: I'm using Drupal in research projects/experiments for MOSI and for ECCO
Nick Hine, Lecturer in Applied Computing and Researcher in Online Collaborative Learning at the University of Dundee, Scotland
- I currently run an online story sharing space with 3200 students of all ages in Scotland, England, Russia, Canada, USA, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, based on ProjectForum
- Am looking to build a new hypermedia space that does what we have an more, probably using Drupal
- Would like to collaborate with people who have experience of building technology that meets stated pedagogic imperatives arising principally from classroom experiences
Patrick Corbett - Partner - Redfin Solutions - Denver, CO Area
- My company creates mostly medium to large, non-profit Drupal sites
- I also work for the Adams 12 Five Star Schools district in Thornton, CO, which runs on Drupal
- I am looking for others in an educational setting who work tirelessly to convince others how great Drupal is and learn more techniques for school-related Drupal installations (multisite, internationalization, intranet, etc.)
- I am also interested in talking with others who are stuck in a Microsoft-only environment.
Peter Panes - IT consultant turned web developer working for City College Norwich
- I do stuff with Drupal for education
- I Joined the group because everyone else did and they do what i do (kind of reminds me of the meaning of the old african proverb Ubuntu)
- I fixed some other peoples spelling mistakes in this post
- some sites I've done:
Richard Noble - Secondary School Maths Teacher and amateur web developer - Bangkok, Thailand
- As webmaster for my school, I have just redesigned and developed our site using Drupal. There are some great features and loads of possibilities that Drupal offers and I haven't yet got to grips with, but with only a month using the system then I am still very much learning.
- Also run a number of other (non Drupal) sites, including Schools.ac which is a site for International Schools around the world.
Rod Gammon - Project Manager, ELT E-Publishing, Cambridge University Press - New York, NY (Day Job) / Partner, Limitless Horizons, LLC - Northern New Jersey (Drupal Job)
- Developing a Drupal site for students of Chinese language called NELL, been working on this sort of thing for several years (prior job was as teacher of Chinese literature), been using Drupal since late 2005 (D4.7).
- Day job is designing and managing implementation of websites supporting Cambridge UP's ELT products. No Drupal there, yet.
- Excited to find this group and hope to share some ideas on great ways to use Drupal in education. I invite you to check my profile on LinkedIn for more on my academic and IT background.
Ron Liskey - Founder, CommunityGrove, Waldorf Teacher, Stone Bridge School, - Northern California
- Building and managing websites for schools and related organizations.
- Developing a Drupal Installation Profile for K-12 schools.
Shyamala Rajaram - Head Technology Drupal Competency Center Netlink Technologies India Limited, Chennai India
- My company creates websites for both internal and external customers. One of our Project PapyrusClubs, is a free online publishing platform for School and college newspapers. We focus on providing solutions for Institutes involved in Education. We have done intranet/ web applications with Moodle Drupal integrations.
- One of our very popular local newspaper sites in Drupal <a href="http://www.mydigitalfc.com:>Mydigitalfc.com.
- Our Multimedia division is involved in creating many interactive Flash based SCORM learning material.
- I am very passionate about the Drupal community, and active in driving Chennai Drupal Community in India.
Stuart Johnson - Physicist, teacher and web-developer
- New to Drupal and here to learn. But I've been pushing educators and students towards the web since day one.
- My time is occupied as lead of the ClaSS project, a student information system.
Turadg Aleahmad - PhD student in Human Computer Interaction and Education
- Researching and developing technologies for open education.
- Particularly interested in open educational media (aka OER)
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