eLearning

Hello everyone,

I am the co-founder of the Mediabird Study Notes software, which is an extension to existing LMS.

Mediabird is a collaborative online notepad that allows small study groups to collaboratively work on shared notes at any time. It is not only possible to extend notes or edit them at the same time but in particular Mediabird allows users to annotate notes and ask questions about them. With that respect, Mediabird combines the ideas of a wiki and of a forum but is not as public as a wiki and relates questions to the notes rather than separating them as done in a forum.

GoingOn is a well funded and rapidly growing start-up that is helping to pioneer the social learning solutions market. Our mission is rooted in the belief that knowledge is socially constructed and that learning is best achieved through dialog, collaboration and transparent sharing of information. We believe that evolving social web modalities will be married with structured instructional pedagogues, to create a fundamentally new way of delivering online education. If you know what the current solutions look like you know the world needs more.

GoingOn is a well funded and rapidly growing start-up that is helping to pioneer the social learning solutions market. Our mission is rooted in the belief that knowledge is socially constructed and that learning is best achieved through dialog, collaboration and transparent sharing of information. We believe that evolving social web modalities will be married with structured instructional pedagogues, to create a fundamentally new way of delivering online education. If you know what the current solutions look like you know the world needs more.

So I showed off a veerrrryyy brief presentation of ELMS and the Assignment Studio yesterday but we're working on A LOT of other projects / related projects. So, tonight around 7pm some of us are going to meet up to discuss ELMS and our initiatives at PSU in greater detail. The hope of this discussion is to try and get edu focused developers excited about this direction and start coming up with an attack plan for future development. This product will be available on drupal.org as soon as it's legal (http://drupal.org/project/elms just a name space at the moment and small description).

Hi everyone. I've been working for several months now on a new social learning module for Drupal called “Writing Assignment.” This module will make it simple for a teacher to assign students to write on a topic and then for the writing to be read, commented on, and rated by other students. I think the code is to a point where I can show it to other people and not feel too embarrassed :>

La primera inquietud que les presento es la siguiente:

he considerado la idea de realizar una migración de un ambiente didáctico en Moodle hacia Drupal, de tal forma que cada curso (más de 60 en total) sea un "blog" como un subdominio. Por ejemplo:

curso01.ejemplo.com

Die Quellen meiner Drupal Weisheit.

Alles auf ausländisch, sorry.

Ich liebe Podcasts und Videocasts... Habt ihr noch mehr?

1. http://www.geeksandgod.com/podcast-series/building-a-website-with-drupal...
   10 Podcasts (ab episode 30) für blutige Anfänger. Geeks & God ist genau das richtige. Thanks and Praise!
2. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/index.html
3. http://www.lullabot.com/podcast
4. http://www.drupaldojo.com/
5. http://www.dudertown.com/ <---- hab ich noch nicht gesehen/gehört

There are several discussions about integration of Drupal, Moodle, Elgg, aTutor and so on.

The questions:
- Is there a common user database?
- Which software is integrated in which (Drupal in Moddle or Moodle in Drupal)?
- Is this a real integration or only a synchronisation of user accounts?
- Which version works which version?

The current solutions are very version specific and specialized. A huge disadvantage is, that they are not using a common user database: They are only synchronising the user accounts.

As it doesn't make sense to integrate Drupal into Moodle, the question (not only Moodle specific) is: "How do I integrate other web-applications into Drupal?". In fact: "How do I use the Drupal user database from outside?".

There are some
http://download.moodle.org/modules/integrations.php
http://download.moodle.org/download.php/modules/drupal_moodle.zip

Already a discussion on:
http://drupal.org/node/54605

Central space for Drupal & ED:
http://drupaled.org/

A plan for aTutor:
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/features.php#46

And the Drupal quiz.module
http://drupal.org/project/quiz

But nothing real well working yet.