education

Just a quick community note about some momentum in projects that often times directly benefit the drupal edtech community.

LTI is moving along in the community it seems -- http://drupal.org/sandbox/jzornig/1809350

Epub would be an excellent format to support exports to which funnymonkey has some work into that I need to test -- http://drupal.org/project/epub_export

The folks at 10gen are offering 2 free courses in MongoDB (see https://education.10gen.com/) - one on creating applications using MongoDB and a second on deploying and administering MongoDB. From what the site says, you will also receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course. I've signed up for the latter so far (and hopefully if the program continues, sign up for the former next year). As I already mentioned, the courses are free but you have to sign up before the first set of homework is due on Monday the 29th.

BRIDGE has recently embarked on a mission to raise awareness about computer science careers and degree programs in the state of Rhode Island. Despite the fact that these degrees and careers are extremely rewarding, our state’s higher ed institutions have a difficult time filling their computer science seats each year, while industry sees a perpetual need for skilled IT professionals.

I'm trying to reach educators who are teaching Drupal as subject matter at college level.

Cross-posting in a few places where it may not be directly related, but we too often focus on Drupal as an LMS, etc without attracting educators who could teach Drupal.

Just wanted to leave a note about ELMS since I haven't jumped on here in awhile.

ELMS is now beta and fully packaged on drupal.org
ELMS Media (asset management solution we use to power our ELMS) has also been released

Drupalcon was a great leep forward for education. Drupal is taking off in k-12, university and private sector training usage for the delivery of educational materials. A mixed group of people passionate about education and training got together for a learning management system (LMS) BoF at Drupalcon. You can read some of the conclusions of that group here http://groups.drupal.org/node/219814

As part of our preparations for the upcoming Education Unconference taking place on March 19th in Denver we are happy to give an update on the panel discussion.

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On Monday, March 19th, we are organizing a Drupal in Education unconference in Denver; the event will be held at Del Pueblo School. This meetup will follow an unconference format, so if there is something you want to talk about, propose a topic, find some like-minded individuals, and let the conversation start.

Last Spring I gave a presentation at our state educational technology conference on using Drupal for a school website. I wanted to make the presentation available for anyone to use as a starting point if you need to put something similar together. These are just the slides, so if you're familiar with Drupal they should make sense, but they do not work well without someone explain things as you go along.

We're exploring the idea of using Drupal for a university-wide ePortfolio system. The feature set certainly looks like it's there (custom content types could organize different page templates. Other modules could help facilitate collaboration and communication). The big question for us is its scalability. Would we be able to scale Drupal to 50,000 to 100,000 student sites? Conceptually each student would have their own mini-site to showcase their content.

Any recommendations on the way this could be architected?

Thanks for any input you can provide.

-Retiarius