Eduglu

Drupal Social Learning Platform

(shared doc for session notes - http://bit.ly/9tcE5W)

About me (Kyle Mathews)

• Blog: http://kyle.mathews2000.com• Twitter: twitter.com/kylemathews• Eduglu twitter: twitter.com/eduglu• Building Drupal sites for ~3 years. Social Learning sites for

2.5 years.• Google Summer of Code -- Memetracker• Graduated December 2009 with Masters in Information

Systems•  Started company to sell social learning solutions to Higher

Education / Enterprise

Roadmap for BOF

1. What problem(s) exactly are we trying to solve here? (10-15 mins)

2. What does Eduglu do now (demo) (5-10 mins)3. Tentative roadmap (2-3 mins)4. Discussion, groups goals, how we can share (remaining

time)

Problems

1. It's hard to build a quality social networking / social learning website in Drupal.1.Two aspects:

1.Coding Drupal to do what we want2.Understanding human psychology well enough so

social learning tools actually help.2. It's hard to share learning tools we build with other learning

groups. Related problem difficult to collaborate with others.

Eduglu is a platform & product

 

For simple / typical use casesEduglu will get you 95-100% of

the way 

For more complex use cases, Eduglu provides framework for

building site. 

Overtime, Eduglu will become more product and less

framework, similar to evolution of Drupal 

Creating a distributed app store for Eduglu

 

App store metaphor 

For site builders, click on features want added to Eduglu, automatically built for you.

For group owners (teachers, et al) browse list of learning tools and add ones they want for their class / learning community.

Eduglu Demo

 

Eduglu Architecture

Same as OpenAtrium -- Spaces/Features/Context/Purl

How to hack on Eduglu

DownloadLatest release always at community.eduglu.org/release-announcement

Make fileThe easiest way to grab a development copy of Eduglu with the latest code is to build Eduglu from it's make file.The Eduglu make file is at http://github.com/KyleAMathews/eduglu_makeSee http://drupal.org/project/drush_make for instructions on how to build Eduglu using its make file.Eduglu FeaturesThe Eduglu core features are tracked here: http://github.com/KyleAMathews/eduglu_featuresPlease file bugs and patches in the Eduglu issue queue at drupal.org/project/edugluEduglu theme (Dewey)The theme is here: http://github.com/KyleAMathews/deweyPlease file bugs and patches in the Eduglu issue queue at drupal.org/project/eduglu

The roadmap

• Push Eduglu to first betao Fix bugso Add missing features:

 Improve group finding / suggestion tools so sites can scale to 1000s of groups

Add follow / following.• Build Eduglu community. 

o Documentationo Improve out-of-the box experience

How to collaborate?

• Your thoughts on where Eduglu is going?• What learning tools do people already have that you can

share? • What learning tools would people like to build that we can

collaborate on?• How to structure the Eduglu community?