education

During one of the edu BOF's at drupalcon sf, a small group of us got together to discuss our needs for a lms (learning management system) powered by drupal. Various schools and groups seem to be doing pieces of this puzzle but we would all benefit from getting together to discuss further and hopefully create a solution that could work for more of us as an alternative to blackboard or sakai, etc.

We started a new group here on g.d.o. to help us organize. If this is something you have interest in, please head over and join!

I'm thinking of doing a simple module that would take a Drupal Book and output a SCORM package (.zip) with the necessary components.

My questions are:
* would there be interest for such a module?
* what SCORM standard (pick one) would be the "best" (least worst?) one to use? (Pointers are welcome, I'm kind of a newb regarding all the available standards).
* do you have any features you'd like this to have?

Hi Everyone,

I'll be teaching a Drupal class at Madison Area Technical College this Spring, the main theme being module development with PHP, topics like database access, jQuery, RSS feeds, and Google Maps. The prereqs are some background with HTML and CSS and a little PHP (or willingness to learn it quickly).

What:   Drupal class (class # 64826)
Where:  Madison Area Technical College, Truax campus
When:   Tues-Thurs, 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm
Starts: January 12, 2010
Ends:   May 13, 2010
Cost:   $336.75

More info about this and our other programming classes here (PHP, Ajax, Java etc.).

– Mike Bertrand

Location: http://drupalboston.blip.tv/

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Montreal's McGill University will be hosting the 2009 Montreal Drupal Camp taking place on the 17th and 18th of October. The Drupal community will converge for two days of workshops and presentations including education-specific sessions and round table discussions regarding the use of Drupal as both a Content Management System and a Learning Management System.

Additional information can be found at http://www.drupalcampmontreal.com

Firstly congrats to the Open Atrium team its a really impressive product and I think is going to be the basis for many effective communities... Thank you for your hard work.
As we have seen with DrupalEd , organic groups make great classrooms.

I think a really useful open atrium install profile that could be an e-learning system out of the box ... would be a combination of DrupalED and Open Atrium

I am planning to do some work to try and see what I can can do with creating some education orientated features for Open Atrium around the following modules

I work for a group at the UW that manages a small group of Drupal sites for departments in our building. (No, this isn't a service we extend to just any department, it has to be in our building.)

However, when approached for this service, we always stress how

1) we will give you a blank drupal install, maybe a theme or two, a tutorial on how to use it and let you go to town.
2) we will not do custom design.

Oi,

I wrote a short paper at:

http://coredogs.com/article/professors-sell-virtual-texts-ethical-problem

on the ethics of an instructor selling his/her own virtual text to his/her own students.

Please let me know what you think (or if you see any typos :-) ).

Kieran

I've been rambling / showing off aspects of these two modules for almost 1 and a 1/2 years now and FINALLY they have been completely rewritten in an open way. They are two separate modules though I'd recommend using them together as that's how they've been tested fully. They are currently being used during our active semester in 4 courses and so far results have been very positive. If you're looking to do online assessment with Drupal, this is a big component and I hope that I can integrate my solution with other projects discussed in this group.

UPDATE Network Manager has been released for 5 6 and 7.
I'm releasing a new module soon and wanted to get some feedback on a screencast that I did. It's a project called the Network Manager (http://drupal.org/project/network_manager) and it helps you manage / maintain your sites all from within one site (given permissions set correctly for mysql user).

Here are links to the screencast (Jing forces it to be in 5 minute segments) --
Part 1 - http://bit.ly/PGu8J
Part 2 - http://bit.ly/yR6Zy
Part 3 - http://bit.ly/BLWrU