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Connecting folks working with issues and challenges that are unique to Drupal in post-secondary academic environments.
History
This group has been founded as a result of DrupalCon San Francisco 2010, when it became obvious that there was a need for a place to extend the fruitful higher education-focused discussions that began there.
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Do you work in Higher Education (Higher-Ed) and want to connect to your peers? We run a Slack group - EduDU. To join EduDU, please send a direct message to Webbeh from the Group Organizers sidebar.
Recent Discussions
Great BoF at DrupalCon New Orleans
Meeting so many other higher ed folks at DrupalCon has been wonderful, and I appreciate the Yale and Georgetown folks who pulled the BoF together yesterday.
I'd really like to continue where we left off and liven this group for further discussions, create a better collection of shared resources and information, and anything else pertaining to the needs and peculiarities inherent in our institutions.
Hopefully we can all save time and aggravation by sharing our successes, tribulations, and seeing that it's not just our own departments that are crazy ;)
**Michael Sheldon
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Invitation to new project
Hi,
I'm Kieran Mathieson, assoc prof at Oakland U.
Skill Tree is a new open source project that might interest you, to be done in D8. The goal is to improve university skill courses, like programming, writing, and statistics. How? By building software for creating good skills courses.
Read moreDrupal Developer (Mid-level / Sr.) for Creosen Services Private Limited
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Mid-level 3+yrs Exp/Senior Software Developer 5-6yrs Exp:
Should have min 1 Year of exp in Developing and maintaining DRUPAL, Content Management System networking sites using PHP5 and MySQL.
Should be using OOPS concepts in PHP.
Proficient in MySQL database.
Proficient in JavaScript and Jquery.
Good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3.0.
Knowledge of developing/coding/integration of website/portals using Drupal will be advantage.
Strong programming & communication skills.
Custom module development.
Responsive Theme development.
Mandatory Drupal.
Tool Builder - Liberating Innovation via site building
https://www.elmsln.org/blog/post/tool-builder video showing new functionality built into elms that allows for effectively allowing anyone that can site build to submit their idea to our innovations github repo without needing to understand code or version control. This is one of the more ridiculous goals of the project.
We have armies of faculty, instructional designers and site builders throughout the education space. We're seeking to unlock the ability for everyone, without knowledge of code or version control, to be able to contribute their creations.
Read moreA11y toolkit module
Just wanted to blast it here as well that I made an accessibility toolkit module which provides a block to help provide ways of improving your site for different visual impairments; most resolving around dyslexia (like a font that makes it easier to read). We also store the setting in a cookie and in the future will do this on the serverside so it doesn't have to reload each time (as the screencast currently shows).
Support, feedback and improvement suggestions always welcome: https://drupal.psu.edu/blog/post/a11y-accessibility-toolkit-module
Read moreELMS Learning Network : Tipping Point (0.2.0) released
With 118 issues resolved, ELMS Learning Network version tipping point (0.2.0) is out with a comprehensive walkthrough of capabilities and discussion of what and why the system functions as it does. We now support CentOS 6,7, Ubuntu 14 / Deb, and Amazon AMI one-line installations. The walkthrough in this post just scratches the surface as we have 2 types of asset management systems with H5P support built in as well as support for LTI 1.2 (provider), REST (shown, and powers everything), and XAPI support it's a great preview of things to come.
Read moreELMSLN demo
Hey GDO land. Haven't gotten around to posting here in awhile but we've got a demo up of ELMS Learning Network in case anyone wants to check it out without having to spin up vagrant or install.
http://online.do1.demos.elmsln.org/
Appreciate feedback, find anything or confused? drop the team (yeah, we have one of those now it's pretty awesome) a line:
https://github.com/elmsln/elmsln/issues/
http://elmsln.org/
DrupalCAP Team to visit SICSR college, Pune on 6th Feb to select its first Drupal Campus Ambassador
Dear All,
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DrupalCamp @ Stanford
The Stanford Drupal Camp is a two-day event to discuss and learn about Drupal, an open-source content management system that powers thousands of websites at Stanford, and millions of websites beyond.
This year, the Stanford Drupal Camp emphasizes introductory sessions focused on content strategy as well as thought-provoking sessions for researchers in academia. Those new to Drupal and Content Strategy will be particularly interested in the events on Friday, whereas experienced Drupallers (yes, we spell it with two "L"s at Stanford) may be more interested in Saturday's program.
Read moreTeaching business information systems with Drupal
Hey,
Most business schools have an information systems course for all business majors (marketing, accounting, HR, ...). The goal is to help students understand how businesses use IT.
Many intro BIS courses use MS Access and Excel, if they use s/w at all.
I've created a BIS course that uses Drupal 8. It's at https://bis.cybercour.se/ . Open for all.
It's not a Drupal course per se (though, of course, there's much content on using Drupal). The course uses Drupal as a vehicle for helping students understand typical business information systems.
Kieran
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