Research and academia

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This group is a meeting, discussion and collaboration space for all interested in using Drupal in the academia and research environments. Drupal is an excellent platform for running sites of departments, associations, centers, research projects, conferences, ejournals, or even entire universities.

This group was started following discussions around the excellent Biblio module. However, all topics related to using Drupal in an academic/research environment are welcome, as well as very specific issues related to Biblio development. Relevant discussions may occur in the Drupal in Education, Conference Organizing Distribution, Language Learning Communities or Curriculum and Training groups.

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suggestions on building Research portal for multiple studies and sites

We currently have a Drupal 7 portal collecting research data for multiple studies (set as individual content types), for multiple sub-projects (individual content type set as entity references), across multiple clinical sites (set as taxonomy).
Please refer the pic attached for the current structure.

We have used node access, field permissions and taxonomy access control contrib modules for configuring permissions.

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Challenges faced when designing for location?

Over the last year, we've worked with UCLA Library and Indiana University Library to design their Library websites. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot. yeah

One of the more challenging aspects was designing for their multiple locations. I'd love to hear from folks what challenges you've faced in designing for locations and how you solved them. I wrote a (long) blog post about the issues we faced in designing for location ... I'll summarize it all here for you.

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CyberCourse: distro for authoring courses

CyberCourse is a Drupal distro for authoring courses. It focuses on university skills courses, like programming, writing, and math. It makes flipped, blended, assessment-driven classes practical.

Build a course with many exercises. Students write programs, write emails, find math logic errors... No multiple choice quizzes. Students get individual formative feedback from humans. Practical at scale, at low cost.

Students can fix and resubmit their work until they get it right. Supports mastery learning.

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System for course design/creation

http://demo.cybercour.se shows (the beginnings of) a system for building courses. Course design and authoring tools only so far.

There's a list of short (< 3 min) videos about the system.

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Learning content authoring system (LCAS) group

There's a new group at:

http://groups.drupal.org/learning-content-authoring-system

It's for creating a distro to help authors write learning content, like Web sites that replace textbooks. The distro will have tools to help authors follow learning science principles, like outcome-based learning.

An learning content authoring system (LCAS) is not the same as an LMS. An LCAS instance will house content for, say, one course. Multiple LMS will use LTI/SCORM/TinCan to load content from the same LCAS instance.

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Drupal distro for designing courses

(This is going out on several channels. Apologies if you get more than one copy.)

There are many Web sites and tools for authoring textbooks: iBooks Author, Flat World Knowledge, etc. Good tech, but there's a fundamental flaw in their specs. They're based on an obsolete view of learning.

Education researchers have shown how we can help students learn STEM skills (STEM: science, tech, engineering and math). Deep learning, formative feedback, other things. We need to redesign authoring software based on these research findings.

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Are you an educator teaching Drupal at college level? Do you know an educator who'd like to teach Drupal?

I'm trying to reach educators who are teaching Drupal as subject matter at college level.

Cross-posting in a few places where it may not be directly related, but we too often focus on Drupal as an LMS, etc without attracting educators who could teach Drupal.

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Cleveland Drupal User Group Meet-Up: Panels

Start: 
2012-08-14 18:00 - 20:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

We'll discuss Panels, the super-robust system for drag-and-drop page layouts, passing contextual information to the elements on the page, and more.

We will open the meeting with a Drupal Ladder Learn Sprint, so please strive to arrive on time.

Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115

IS&T Conference Room, 11th Floor, Rhodes Tower
campus map

meet-up rsvp

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Cleveland Drupal User Group Meet-up BYOT

Start: 
2012-07-19 18:00 - 20:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

This was a successful meet-up the last time we did it. Let's try it again!

Have a topic or interest that you need help with from the Drupal community?

Here's your chance to ask and/or help out other Drupal users.

We'll line-up topics at the beginning of the meeting, figure out how much time we can spend on each, then go through them.

We'll save some time at the end for picking back-up on conversations individually.

Please bring your burning questions and ideas!

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Cleveland Drupal User Group Meet-up BYOT

Start: 
2012-05-24 18:00 - 20:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

BYOT - Bring Your Own Topic

Have a topic or interest that you need help with from the Drupal community?
Here's your chance to ask and/or help out other Drupal users.

We'll see how much time we can spend on each topic after we find out how many are submitted.

meetup.com listing

Meetup in Rhodes Tower on the campus of Cleveland State University.

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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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Panel Participants in the Drupal in Education Unconference

As part of our preparations for the upcoming Education Unconference taking place on March 19th in Denver we are happy to give an update on the panel discussion.

The participants will include:

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    Cleveland Drupal Meetup @ CSU: Content Strategy

    Start: 
    2012-03-15 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York
    Organizers: 
    Event type: 
    User group meeting

    Stephen Gracey will be talking about Content Strategy and presenting a case study of its practical application in Drupal.

    See his comments on the event page on meetup for more info.

    We'd like to have a couple short (5-10 minute) demos related to this topic after Stephen's talk, to showcase approaches to content strategy in Drupal. Anyone have a tried-and-true technique or an innovative solution to share? Then we'll open it up for discussion.

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    OpenAcaDept (academic distribution) welcomes developers and themers

    OpenAcadept is a Drupal distribution for building academic websites. It can help academic departments to have own site. The functionality of OpenAcaDept is based on what we need in Donetsk National Technical University and will be extended due to user requests. OpenAcaDept is in active development now, but you can start to build your own project based on it, while helping us to fix issues. It is very important to have a feedback from you re this project, because it will help improve it.

    OpenAcaDept features:

    • Basic content types such as Project, Event, Publication, Resource, Blog post, Page.
    • Configurable user profiles for different roles: Faculty/staff, Student, Alumnus.
    • Views for pages and contextual blocks.
    • Smart node access workflow and role application on registration.
    • Installed menu items, taxonomy terms and pages.
    • Custom theme.
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    Benchmarking Higher Ed Sites ...

    I recently revisited an old pet project of mine looking at benchmarking and comparing higher education sites. It is obviously a work in progress, but it is shaping up fairly well at this stage and I'm getting to a point where I'd like to secure some feedback. If 'ya get a chance, please take a look and let me know what you think. It's based on D7, represents around 3,200 US higher ed sites, and has a range of data to sift through.

    http://thesites.at/

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    A Drupaly tool for writing effective online college textbooks

    This page...

    http://coredogs.com/article/textbook-writer-tools-writing-active-textbooks

    ... describes a tool for writing online textbooks. The textbooks:

    • Embody best practices from learning science.
    • Can be written and sold by individuals and small groups, without needing a publishing company.

    Kieran

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    DrupalEdu related groups

    This is an inventory of any groups or initiatives related to Drupal in Education.

    Please add any others you find, and update information below.

    Drupal EDU related events

    Oxford DrupalCamp on Education
    http://oxford.drupalcamp.org.uk/

    Higher Ed Summit at NYC DrupalCamp
    http://www.nyccamp.org/higher-education-summit

    Formal education:

    Drupal in (basic) Education
    http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education

    Drupal in higher Education
    http://groups.drupal.org/higher-education

    Research and Academia
    http://groups.drupal.org/research-and-academia

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    Drupal and Education Open Space: Call for Participation

    Education is increasingly recognised as a major and growing need for the growing Drupal community. During DrupalCons educational BoFs are very common, but we may need more structure to collaborate on the diversity of challenges for education.

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    Vote for Drupal in Education and Education in Drupal Sessions at DrupalCon London 2011

     

    I've looked through the proposed sessions at DrupalCon London 2011 and extracted some (including 2 of mine) that could be particularly relevant to people interested (in one way or another) in Drupal and education. Please give your votes to those you might be interested in.

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    Session proposal for DrupalCon London

    Hi all,

    with the deadline for session proposals for DrupalCon London rapidly approaching, I'm thinking about putting together a session(s) proposal to talk about some ideas around Drupal and education and/or educating in Drupal. So far, I've only seen two proposals going in that direction: http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/bringing-drupal-educati... and http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/noob-experience-look-le....

    Anybody working on something, so we're not working at cross-purposes or can possibly pool our resources?

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