Drupal CMS For Education
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Web Content Management forEducation and E-learning
UntraditionalOpen Source Software
Solutions
Before Web Content Management
Ambiguous Acronyms
• CMS (Enterprise, Web, Mobile)• WCMS• LMS• VLE• iLearn• WTF?
What Is Content?
• Text, HTML, XML• Images and graphics• Audio and video• Electronic documents of any kind
What is Content Management?
Rules, process, and workflow to keep content manageable.
Non-technical staff and users can add, edit, and delete content.
Of course, on the Internet.
“We have A LOT of content”
• Who is your audience?– Students and educators– Employees and managers– Everyone else
• Do they need it now?• Will it change often?• Who decides?– Technical & Professional Writers (you
do)
For Education and E-learning
• What are the traditional options?– Paid $oftware licenses– “Free,” Open Source Software– Build it yourself
One Familiar Option
For “Classroom” Education
• Open Source Software–Moodle (iLearn)– Sakai– Claroline– ATutor
• Proprietary $oftware– Blackboard
Open Source Software
1. Free Redistribution2. Source Code3. Derived Works4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor7. Distribution of License8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
Open Source Initiative
Forrester Research
“For an open source WCM vendor to be relevant, it must have a satisfactory product offering, proven enterprise-level implementations, and a large — and passionate — community of developers and service providers”
Introducing Drupal
The Drupal Community
Who Uses Drupal?
Universities– Yale–Harvard– Penn State– Rice–MIT– Stanford
Source: Urevick-Ackelsberg, ZivTech.com, Higher Education Web Symposium
Organizations–Unicef– The UN– PBS–NATO–NASA
Companies– Reuters– Yahoo– Adobe– The BBC– Forbes
Drupal Is Untraditional
• Untraditional for most EDU’s– Drupal’s not an LMS “out of the box.”
• Often considered traditional elsewhere– Personal websites– Corporate websites– eCommerce– Social Networks
Pres. Obama Is Untraditional
Why Drupal for Education?
"Compared to a traditional Learning Management System, Drupal can feel less restrictive; Drupal has been designed to interact with the Web, and to make the most of the array of possibilities offered by the Internet.” –Bill Fiztgerald
He Would Say That…
DrupalEd (EDU Pkg.)
Try Something Untraditional
Web Content Management forEducation and E-learning
UntraditionalOpen Source Software
Solutions
Moodle
Sakai
Claroline
ATutor
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