Now, I don't mean for this to sound like a plug for a product (cause it's not), I've been developing Drupal modules to help support the development of our e-learning courses at Penn State for the last year now. As things have progressed, our department has begun to pursue making these modules open source. I've been sitting on this stuff for a year now patiently waiting for the right time to start announcing the projects we've been working on and I think many (if not all of them) would be of interest to DrupalEd users. Possibly in the future (once this is released as a module) we can collaborate in the development of more educational Drupal tools. Here's the linkage to these projects
http://elearning.psu.edu/projects/ --> central source for ALL our projects, you'll find anything about everything there.
http://elearning.psu.edu/demo/assignmentstudio/ --> demo of the assignment studio that people can play around with.
http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/anouncing-elms-visual-way-struct... --> Boston session 1 proposal
http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/assignment-studio-assignment-man... --> Boston session 2 proposal
Brief descriptions though of some projects we're working on:
- Assignment Studio - Manage the submission of student assignments (image / text at the moment) and provide an interface for both students and instructors to access (and assess) assignments quickly.
- ELMS - Short for E-Learning Management System. ELMS provides a drag-and-drop + right-click approach to creating all content within Drupal. It was developed for instructional designers, by instructional designers.
- Rubricator - Associate rubrics to assignment studio content to allow for click and save assessment of all user assignments
We will (hopefully!) be presenting at Drupal Con 08 (we have two sessions proposed) but I look forward to any comments on these materials. I hope that at least till we get these things released that this will prompt some discussion about our educational drupal modules so we can improve them / start planning for community development.
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I'd be very interested in
I'd be very interested in talking with you about the work you have been doing -- I'll be at DrupalCon, and we should definitely make some time to meet up.
At the risk of stating the obvious, we'd be very glad to talk about ways of working together. Do you have a timeline for releasing this out?
Cheers,
Bill
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I'd love to talk more about
I'd love to talk more about it (preferably before hand if at all possible). The project's link has a lot more information then when you first contacted me about the conference posting so please check it out if you haven't already. Timeline I can't provide, it's on an asap basis. Currently we know that Open source projects have been approved before here (similar to LGPL I believe) and we're talking to the right people to push this forward. I hope by the end of the month but...I can't promise anything at the moment, just optimism.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, my day lately is nothing but compiling documentation / screen casts to blast out to everyone about all the stuff we've been working on since we've been silent the last year about all these products.
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http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
Wow, great work
Bryan and Keith, just wanted to say congratulations on a job well done. The screencasts really show off what you can do with Drupal in this area. I will look forward to seeing where things go with this and how it may help us as educators.
Good work,
Dan
Thanks! We should have it
Thanks! We should have it out to the public as soon as I can package everything up. Probably be releasing several modules over the next few weeks as soon as we get final approval. The Assignment Studio and Rubric modules will probably be released first as they are less complicated then ELMS.
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/