General Discussion

We currently have a Drupal 7 portal collecting research data for multiple studies (set as individual content types), for multiple sub-projects (individual content type set as entity references), across multiple clinical sites (set as taxonomy).
Please refer the pic attached for the current structure.

We have used node access, field permissions and taxonomy access control contrib modules for configuring permissions.

Over the last year, we've worked with UCLA Library and Indiana University Library to design their Library websites. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot. yeah

One of the more challenging aspects was designing for their multiple locations. I'd love to hear from folks what challenges you've faced in designing for locations and how you solved them. I wrote a (long) blog post about the issues we faced in designing for location ... I'll summarize it all here for you.

CyberCourse is a Drupal distro for authoring courses. It focuses on university skills courses, like programming, writing, and math. It makes flipped, blended, assessment-driven classes practical.

Build a course with many exercises. Students write programs, write emails, find math logic errors... No multiple choice quizzes. Students get individual formative feedback from humans. Practical at scale, at low cost.

Students can fix and resubmit their work until they get it right. Supports mastery learning.

Here...

http://youtu.be/Cz7zSlNfiqk

... there's a short video about pseudents (pseudo-students). They're make-believe students who go through a course with the real students. Authors can use pseudents to address metacognitive issues, show students what not to do, etc.

CyberCourse makes it easy to set up pseudents, and use them in course content.

Kieran

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.

This page...

http://coredogs.com/article/textbook-writer-tools-writing-active-textbooks

... describes a tool for writing online textbooks. The textbooks:

• Embody best practices from learning science.
• Can be written and sold by individuals and small groups, without needing a publishing company.

Kieran

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.

I've looked through the proposed sessions at DrupalCon London 2011 and extracted some (including 2 of mine) that could be particularly relevant to people interested (in one way or another) in Drupal and education. Please give your votes to those you might be interested in.

Hi all,

with the deadline for session proposals for DrupalCon London rapidly approaching, I'm thinking about putting together a session(s) proposal to talk about some ideas around Drupal and education and/or educating in Drupal. So far, I've only seen two proposals going in that direction: http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/bringing-drupal-educati... and http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/noob-experience-look-le....

Anybody working on something, so we're not working at cross-purposes or can possibly pool our resources?