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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.
Join us on Slack
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
Digital wayfinding?
Has anybody in this group had experience with deploying a campus digital wayfinding solution?
A little background on this question: we're in the middle of a campuswide wayfinding project—renaming roads, redesigning physical signage, etc.—and there's great interest in the project team around integrating this with our digital signage, mobile app, and website. We're already using Drupal as our standard Web platform, so I'm curious to know if a) it's feasible to build a wayfinding solution within Drupal and b) are there existing wayfinding systems that interoperate nicely with Drupal.
Read moreNYCCamp Higher Ed Summit
NYCCamp's Higher Ed Summit registration is open. This free event will be hosted in NYC at the United Nations building and aims to bring together peers from Higher Ed Institutions who are using Drupal and other Open Source platforms at their institutions.
The Summit schedule is still being finalized but we have already lined up presentations and discussions around Accessibility, Personalization and Leaning Management Systems.
If you are interested in presenting or have questions feel free to reach out to me at Richard.vonRauchhaupt@stonybrook.edu
Register at www.NYCCamp.org
Read morexAPI module for learning analytics
At iMindsX we have been working on integrating Drupal with Learning Locker for a while now. We created a custom distribution for blended learning, and detailed analytics are very important. Last month, we made the set of integration modules that allows sending xAPI statements to Scorm Cloud and Learning Locker (developed by Matthias van Parijs, Nikos Verschore and Devan Chase) for various actions performed on the blended learning site. The coolest features are video player interaction for Youtube and Vimeo and Quiz integration.
Read moreDrupalCamp Atlanta 2015
Drupalcamp Atlanta (DCATL) is one of the southeast’s largest annual Drupal conferences attracting over 450 web developers, designers, executives and educators who are engaged with teaching and learning Drupal. This conference is comprised of multiple concurrent sessions with tracks ranging from Beginner, Design/Theming and Usability, Development and Performance, Site Building, Business Leadership, and Education. In addition there are impromptu birds of feather (BOF) sessions, code sprints all concluding with a networking reception.
Read moreDrupal Job on Florida West Coast
Pasco-Hernando State College is looking for a webmaster to maintain a Drupal 7 web site, among other duties.
The job is located in New Port Richey, Fla. just north of Tampa and St. Petersburg. Working remotely is not an option.
The job includes liberal paid time off (winter break, spring break, holidays, vacation and sick leave) plus a great benefit package including pension and paid up health insurance.
See the posting at: http://phsc.edu/jobs/webmaster
Read moreELMS Learning Network: An EdTech Platform for Sustaining Innovation
New white paper released
ELMS Learning Network: An EdTech Platform for Sustaining Innovation
https://psu.box.com/sustaining-innovation
ELMSLN + xAPI/Learning Locker + H5P + OpenBadges
Rick Humphries (@rickhumphries) recently did a video showing the work his group is doing with ELMS Learning Network, Learning Locker and H5P to transmit activity statements (XAPI) from ELMSLN to Learning Locker. Then it shows how ELMSLN is querying the LRS (learning locker) for what statements a user has passed and then granting badges based on matching those statements.
Read moreNew job posted for drupally webmaster
Please send us your candidates. Job closes May 1, act fast!
https://jobs.drupal.org/pasco-hernando-state-college/job/9653
Read morePenn State DUG Meeting - April
DUG meeting next week - Tuesday, April 21st from 11AM to 1 PM in W023 Pattee Library, Penn State, University Park, PA.
Agenda Items
- Nittany Vagrant
- New d.p.e website
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- Member Profiles !!!!
- Publicize Distro
- Penn College presentation notes
Join DrupalCAP(Campus Ambassador Program) Team
Dear All,
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