The initial purpose of this group centers around the following aims:
- Identifying sources of open data that are relevant to education
- Documenting strategies and approaches for incorporating various data sources into a single site/instance
- Documenting the means by which schools and local communities can gain a more complete understanding of the factors affecting how people learn
More data is being released in more usable formats by local, state, and federal agencies. Data points (information like median income, crime rates, political demographics, percentage of renters to owners, etc) all help provide a backdrop against which educational outcomes can be more fully understood. However, the flood of data creates real issues around signal to noise.
This group will help develop toolkits that will allow decision makers and other motivated stakeholders get access to relevant information in usable formats.
New Open Badges Module
Just ran across this recently. I haven't had a chance to dig into it, but thought I'd pass it along to others that might find it interesting.
https://www.drupal.org/project/open_badges
https://git.drupalcode.org/project/open_badges
Hệ thống học trực tuyến bằng drupal
Có bạn nào xây dựng hệ thống e-learning bằng drupal chưa. Mình đang xây dựng hệ thống e-learning trên nền tảng Drupal cho website e-master.vn
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Cleveland Drupal User Meetup - Mapping in Drupal
Want your site to handle postal addresses, locations, GPS traces, or other types of geospatial data? Need to display all of that onto a map? Want something more elegant or sophisticated than Google Maps?
Come learn all about making maps and handling geospatial data in Drupal.
Jeff Schuler will present strategies for storing and managing addresses in Drupal, automatically translating them to geospatial coordinates, and displaying them on custom-styled maps.
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BYOT - Bring Your Own Topic
Have a topic or interest that you need help with from the Drupal community?
Here's your chance to ask and/or help out other Drupal users.
We'll see how much time we can spend on each topic after we find out how many are submitted.
Meetup in Rhodes Tower on the campus of Cleveland State University.
Read moreHelp with building a forum
Hello there,
I am building a website where I need a Forum for a community and I wanted to extend the Drupal Core Forum's functionality but as I am new to drupal i am getting very confused and so Could anyone help me??? please...
Well I don't know if it is necessary as I have never used Core Forum before so I don't really now what it looks like, but I suppose it comes with the installation.
The forum would need to let people who wants to post content or reply to a thread to have a registered account ie they'd need to log in. However the content will have to be visible to the public.
Read moreCleveland Drupal Users Meetup @ CSU
Our first meetup at Cleveland State University!
We have two presentations on the schedule:
Building a Website with Drupal: "How You Can Build a Flexible Website Powered with Free Drupal Software", presented by Darrell Ulm, aimed at those new to Drupal,
and
Writing your first Drupal module, presented by David Makalsky, geared toward those wanting to start developing in Drupal.
Meetup.com RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-drupal/events/47495632/
Read moreSchool Website
Hi,
I am a Web Design student and am designing a website for a school as for my thesis project ( I haven't started yet). I am very new to Drupal as to webdesign and I wondered if anyone can help me choose the right modules as this is my first time.
So, the website will serve as a tool to rise funding as it is a charity School so it will take Donations
on top of being a standard school website.
The website will have these functionalities:
Donation
Forum
Blog
A portal - (Learning Management System or whatever to Track students, deliver
Benchmarking Higher Ed Sites ...
I recently revisited an old pet project of mine looking at benchmarking and comparing higher education sites. It is obviously a work in progress, but it is shaping up fairly well at this stage and I'm getting to a point where I'd like to secure some feedback. If 'ya get a chance, please take a look and let me know what you think. It's based on D7, represents around 3,200 US higher ed sites, and has a range of data to sift through.
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Drupal and Education Open Space: Call for Participation
Education is increasingly recognised as a major and growing need for the growing Drupal community. During DrupalCons educational BoFs are very common, but we may need more structure to collaborate on the diversity of challenges for education.
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Open Data session at DrupalCamp Chicago
Hi folks,
For those who may be attending DrupalCon Chicago, I wanted to let you know that I've submitted a session proposal you may be interested in. I was surprised to see no sessions discussing Open Data or how Drupal would leverage Open Data sources, so as a heavy user of political "open data" in particular, I submitted a session to address this topic.
I've outlined the proposed session here: http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/nomnomnom-consuming-3rd-party-dat...
Read moreRequesting your input for new project
Can you spare 20 minutes to take a survey about a Drupal development project undertaken by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Massey University in New Zealand? This NSF funded project -- OKES: An Open Knowledge Exchange System to Promote Meta-Disciplinary Collaboration Based on Socio-Technical Principles (NSF SOCS/IT Research Award Number 0968445) -- seeks input from Drupal developers as to how Drupal can be used to support traditional conference and unconference collaboration.
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OpenScholar and Social Media Classroom
Wanted to let folks know that the Drupal 6 and eventually Drupal 7 upgrade for the http://socialmediaclassroom.com project is going to be done in a way that will make it:
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An optional install profile to use with OpenScholar as base
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The features of "Blog, Forum, Wiki, Chatroom, Social Bookmarking, Learning E-Portfolio (and microblog and RSS and other data import in Drupal 6 version)" will also be features available for other types of sites if the OpenScholar install profile is run.
Related: Lansingwiki.org
Related to this topic:
I am working out a place-based wiki in the form of http://lansingwiki.org in Drupalalso using RDF modules, open layers, services, location, etc (still in development)
I'll be looking to work with area educators to create, expand on and maintain content. We'll also build in ways to import data.
We're also working on ways to connect local economies mapping that happens in Lansingwiki.org to complex systems modeling.
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