drupal south 2015: drupal in education
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Drupal in education strategies, standalone vs collaboration, LMS
06 March 2015DrupalSouth Melbourne
WEB ENGINEERS
TOC
- Learning management systems
- Existing LMS
- LMS Platforms
- Drupal: Drupal and LMS / Drupal as LMS
- Project Lantern
- LMS vision
Who we are
http://www.technocrat.com.au/
Apologies Michelle
AHMED
Client services director
Joshua Vladimir
@joshmelbs @Vladimiraus
Learning management systems
Goals?
- institution
- content / course
- teacher, student
- rosters, grades, discussions, syllabus, collaboration, mail, chat...
- end-to-end, or just the middle part?
Learning management systems
- Benefits?
- For teachers or for students?
- For business or for Users?
Learning management systems
Existing LMS
- Moodle
- Banner
- Blackboard Learn
- Google LMS
- CUSTOM
- Others
LMS - Moodle
- Open source
- last release: 2.8.3 (Feb 2, 2015)
- Original release: 1999
- Written in PHP
- https://moodle.org/
LMS - Moodle
- PROS:
- all in one edu solution
- user friendly (see setup)
- education focused
- Large community
- Lots of modules
- Responsive
LMS - Moodle
- CONS:
- requires complex setup
- Build for function rather than form
- not user friendly out of the box
LMS - MOODLE
LMS - BANNERend-to-end?
LMS - Blackboard Learn
- Proprietary
- last release: 9.1 (April 2010)
- Original release: 1998
- Written in Java
- https://www.blackboard.com/
- Search “Blackboard learn”
LMS - Blackboard Learn
LMS - Blackboard Learn
2011: CourseSites, cloud solution
2012: "Blackboard's focus on acquisitions
prevented the company from fully focusing
on their software products, which has led to
the continual introduction of additional
features, known as feature creep."
Rip Empson, TechCrunch
LMS - Blackboard Learn
LMS - Google Apps
- GOOGLE Applications for Education
- BASED on Google Projects: SITES, DRIVE
- SIMPLE STudent / TEACHER / course
LMS - Google Apps
LMS PLATFORMS
- https://www.edx.org/
- https://novoed.com/
- https://www.coursera.org/
- https://www.apple.com/au/education/ipad/itunes-u/
- https://www.khanacademy.org/
- Open Universities http://www.open.edu.au/
LMS PLATFORMS - Edx
LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed
LMS PLATFORMS - Coursera
LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed
LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed
LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed
Custom LMS
- Premium price
- Additional Features
- Time consuming
Drupal
- Drupal + LMS
- Drupal as LMS
Drupal + LMS
- Integration
- LMS (usually moodle)
- Drupal for additional functionality
Drupal + LMS
PROS
- targeted goals
- separation
Drupal + LMS
CONS
- custom development
- multiple systems
- Wider Support Required
- authentication
Drupal AS LMS
ELMS (v6)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/elms
- Pennsylvania State University
- One solution for everything
- good start
- Similar to ubercart
Drupal AS LMS
ELMS learning network (ELMSLN, v7)
- https://www.elmsln.org/
- https://btopro.wordpress.com/
- https://github.com/btopro/elmsln
Drupal AS LMS
ELMS learning network (ELMSLN, v7)
ELMS: Course Information System (v6 & 7)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/cis
ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (v6 & 7)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/mooc
Drupal AS LMS
OPINGO
- https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno
- https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms
- Module and Distribution
- Drupal 7
- Uses OG, Quiz, Rules and Views
Drupal AS LMS
D7 Modules
● ROLES and PERMISSIONS: OG (or not), WORKBENCH (OR NOT)○ STUDENT, TEACHER, ADMIN, DEVELOPER - interacting with THE ADMIN ui in very
different ways - but (maybe) in more fixed pre-structured ways for lms than corporate site
● FOR LEARNING: quiz, course, achievements● USER > COURSE WORKFLOW: entities, Inline entity form● WEBFORM, ENTITYFORM, FORM API● Date, caLendar, schedulER● RULES, Message, Flag, ENTITY REFERENCES● COMMERCE: ACCESS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, DOWNLOADS AS PRODUCTS● accessibility
Project Lantern
DrupalSouth Melbourne
UX ALCHEMY | ENTERPRISE DRUPAL
Drupal 8 Based LMS
Project Lantern
- Mission
- Philosophy
- Audience
- Goals
- Roadmap
- Structure
History
- Focus Changed
- Original: moodle
- Current: LMS platform
- Inspiration: Drupal Commerce
Mission
To provide educational solution
- alternative
- accessible
- responsive
- community
- suite of tools
Philosophy
- open source
- education-down, developers-up
- no single client approach
- single focus at a time approach
Audience
1. Edu community
2. Users limited by current lms
3. new drupal users
4. Developers
Goals
1. Create alternative, not competition
2. edu-driven
3. outcome
- Configurations
- Distributions
- Modules
Structure - Global
SCHOOL ADMIN TEACHER STUDENT
COURSE MANAGEMENT
Teacher MANAGEMENT
School MANAGEMENT
Sign up MANAGEMENT
Structure - Course
ForumQuiz
CourseStudents Slides / Media
Report Section
Roadmap
- course module
- https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course
- Institution module
- Basic distribution
- Community documentation
- https://github.com/project-lantern
A vision for LMS
DrupalSouth Melbourne
UX ALCHEMY | ENTERPRISE DRUPAL
Drupal 8 Based LMS
MoodleBlackboardiTunes UCoursera
MoodleBlackboardiTunes UCoursera
MoodleBlackboardiTunes UCoursera
Glorified Content Management Systems?
Horizontal Silosvs. Instructional Leadership
QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin GroupsCodeschool...
Vertical Silosvs. Integrated Learning
MechatronicsBiomechanicsEnvironmental Engineering...
MechatronicsBiomechanicsEnvironmental Engineering…
● Rethink KPIs for educators● Different education settings require different
integration methods.
Horizontal Silosvs. Instructional Leadership
Vertical Silosvs. Integrated Learning
RDBMS vs Graphs
RDBMS vs Graphs
Traditional learning vs. a Gamified Experience
QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin GroupsCodeschool...
QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin Groups
Codeschool...
QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin Groups
Codeschool...
QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin Groups
Codeschool...
Advent of the
Digital Course Designer?
The Vision- Break horizontal silos. - Data driven learning. - Interdisciplinary learning by exposing content as
“knowledge integration points”.- Empower students to participate in the teaching
process.- Pop-up courses that live beyond their tenure.
A vision for LMS
- Moodle
- Blackboard
- iTunes U
- Coursera
Glorified Content Management Systems?
QUESTIONS?
http://www.technocrat.com.au/
http://www.slideshare.net/TECHNOCRATAU
https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course
AHMED
Client services director
Joshua Vladimir
@joshmelbs @Vladimiraus
References
LMS
- https://moodle.org/
- http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Overview.aspx
Drupal
- https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno
- https://www.elmsln.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kRau5-i4Fc
References
Project Lantern
- https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course