Drupal Education

Montgomery College, Maryland is offering a full Content Strategy and Introduction to Drupal course. Learn how to build dynamic Drupal-based sites using views/panels/blocks and other components. Learn what CMS is all about.

Fall Semester Registration is open now. For more information, please contact ashique.tanveer@montgomerycollege.edu or visit the college website.

Are there any Drupal training courses available in STL for the taking?
UMSL, SLU, Webster, Community Colleges? Are any schools offering it?

http://drupal.org/project/elms -- Try it out now! The abstraction of ELMS is nearly complete. If you care about ELMS implications for application development, check out drupal.psu.edu and read through my posts about abstraction (or http://btopro.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/what-im-really-excited-about/ or http://elearning.psu.edu/elearning/elms-drupal-drupal-elms )

Just some highlights:
--improved installer
--major focus on ensuring accessibility is met
--style guide that accompanies 15 newly released themes
--22 features, many of which are kit compliant

I've been having a conversation via email with a bunch of higher EDU drupal developers which I'm sick of just talking about so let's make it happen: A Drupal in Higher Education Consortium. The goal of this isn't some kind of bloated, formal relationship but instead a series of lightweight tools across different websites (this one included) in order to help each other through problems we face.

Today we released a new version of ELMS which starts to branch it out into our vision of 3 separate distributions for education. https://elms.psu.edu/ Has all the details and has been completely redone around our new UI for the system. Many of the issues from Alpha 3 have been resolved but this is a fundamentally different system in just about every way. The focus is still on course content but the instructional designer administrative layer helps set the stage that other educational distributions can be built off of.

Congratulations people! We're way out ahead of the other CMSs out there right now in the .edu domain space. This is great news for all of us who build sites in higher education! Keep up the great work everyone and make sure to spread the word! If trends are anything like I've witnessed @ Penn State, adoption from distributions is about to ramp up dramatically in the coming months / years.

Source: http://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/tld-edu-/content_management
Via: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/friday-roundup-drupal-8-education-agile...

Early last year I submitted a post to groups.drupal.org about an idea I'd had for a new way in which people could learn how to do Drupal:

An initial build of ELMS: Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE) was released today. The focus of CLE is two fold. The first component is to allow students to collaborate, critique, rate, and comment on each other's assignments / media. This is known as an "Open Studio" concept in the arts and we've tried to mirror it in some of our courses previously.

This module will allow users to create a structured, interactive online course, manage subscriptions to the course, track performances and schedule lesson delivery.

I came across Learnable recently and they had a neat course builder that I thought would be an excellent feature for a Drupal-based LMS website to have.

Description

Let us assume users can have two different roles: that of a course manager and a student.

Content

We are currently seeking students interested in learning about our AWS testing implementations. The primary objective is to create a curriculum that will help educate others understand the methods utilized by the Drupal infrastructure to support it's automated testing in the Amazon cloud. This is a prime opportunity for you to become involved in Drupal and help create positive learning materials to help others understand the benefits of Amazon cloud services as they apply to Drupal.