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.
Cleveland Drupal User Group Meet-up BYOT
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 in Rhodes Tower on the campus of Cleveland State University.
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
Read moreResearch Technician (Digital Resources Administrator) | Ligatus Research Centre - University of the Arts London
Title: Research Technician (Digital Resources Administrator)
Reference: EXT454
Occupation: Technical
College: Academic Development and Quality
Postion Type: Temporary - Part time
Sector: Ligatus Research Unit
Salary: £26,167 - £31,943 per annum
Closing Date: 18/04/2012
Job Overview
3 Years Fixed Term Contract
Part time 0.5 FTE, 20 hours
CCW Research – Ligatus
Why choose us?
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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
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.
Read moreDrupal Developer | Harvard Medical School
The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), known as Harvard Catalyst, is seeking an experienced Drupal developer for a 5-month contract position (Feb-June). You will work closely with a team of engineers, developers and designers on all aspects of the project lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional specifications, design, development, QA, roll-out, and maintenance.
Required qualifications include experience with; Drupal 6 and 7, custom module development, and theme development.
Read moreWork on a real web application with meaningful impact! | BioRAFT
BioRAFT is an energetic young (and now funded) company new to the Boston area. Our development team is currently expanding and we want to find Drupal Enthusiasts and Developers to come on board. We have a cool application, entirely Drupal based, that is used by universities and hospitals across the country.
We know and love Drupal; we've been around in the community since 2005 (ah, flexinode :) ) and our application has been growing ever since. We are filling a variety of roles. Talk to me at the Boston meet up tomorrow about how you might fit in on our team, or email us directly at: jobs@bioraft.com . Telecommuters welcome (for some roles) but please no outsourced contractor companies. We are only interested in hiring full time employees right now.
Qualifications:
- You are wicked smart.
- You work hard.
- You know how to have fun.
Web Team Leader | The Field Museum
Reporting to the Museum's Director of Technology, the Team Leader will work in a hands-on capacity, and will oversee the entire development lifecycle for web projects from conceptualization and project inception to post production support. The Team Leader will interact with representatives of the Museum's various departments (e.g. scientific research, conservation, education, exhibitions, public programming, digital outreach, etc.) to guide and coordinate web page/feature strategy for those departments and for the Museum overall. The Team Leader will provide both design and technical leadership to a small and highly capable web design/development team in order to develop world-class web pages, features and functionality to support all of the Museum's departments and functions. The Team Leader will develop and drive the web team's technical channel strategy and tactics, and will also ensure that the Museum systematically deploys best-in-class user experience, SEO, site search, analytics, site features & functionality. The Team Leader will ensure that social media and other digital tools are properly tied to site activities; and will also collaborate with other groups within the Technology department (digitization, video development, new media (apps, ebooks, etc.)) to assure that the Museum maintains coordinated, world-class outreach and communication.
Please submit cover letter and resume to: webteamlead@fieldmuseum.org
Read moreWeb Production Specialist | Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is seeking an energetic web production specialist to join our Communications Office.
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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.
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.
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
Drupal Developer | HighWire Press/Stanford University
DRUPAL/PHP WEB DEVELOPER
BACKGROUND:
HighWire Press, a department of Stanford University Library, hosts high-impact scholarly journals and other scholarly content on the Web, primarily for not-for-profit societies and publishers. A new Drupal/PHP Web Developer position is available to work as part of the existing development staff.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
This position is responsible for the technical design and construction of components of our web application including those specifically designed for publishers to manage their web sites.
Web Developer | IUPUI - Institute for American Thought
The Institute for American Thought at IUPUI (http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat) is seeking a Web Developer to collaborate on a large Drupal-based project.
Read moreApplications Developer | Institute for American Thought
The Applications Programmer will assist the Peirce Edition Project's Associate Technical Editor in programming and developing an innovative web-based scholarly-text editing platform (STEP) designed for scholarly editors to transcribe, edit and annotate documents, and publish the Peirce critical edition. This position will program several modules that make up that electronic platform, which will run entirely on-line through Drupal - a web Content Management System - and a MySQL database.
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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.
Read moreSession 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?
Read more3 BoFs on University sites, 5 BoFs about science
Drupalcon Chicago has been an interesting moment for research/science/academia stuff. I count several BoFs and there seems to be three different groups emerging. One is of course about education, but I"m hoping this will be discussed in the higher education group. A Second topic deals with the websites of universities. The third topic deals with the research itself. I"ll just quickly list the name of the BoFs.
Read moreBoF Gathering at DrupalCon Chicago 2011
A listing of the people at the Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon Chicago 2011, and the projects we're working on:
--question, which BoF, there have been several ... should we make it sessions?? --
Shawn DeArmond - Manuscript submission and review
Ali Zimmerman (dreamwell_ali)- Scholarly editing of critical editions (Institute for American Thought)
Leo Robert Klein (leoklein) - UIC, Office of Admissions & Records.
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