Next generation digital learning environment talk from Apereo 2016.

1. https://github.com/elmsln/elmsln
https://elmsln.org
Star, Follow and Fork!

2. Project Lead
ELMS Initiative
Instructional Systems Architect
E-Learning Institute
College of Arts & Architecture
Penn State University
@btopro (aka Bryan Ollendyke)

3. ELMS:LN is a series of networked Drupal sites to form course networks.
Automation / DevOps keeps the process manageable
Everything REST capable and built on demand.
Networks are formed of Services (per course) and Authorities (per learning network)
New idea New Distribution New domain New tool
What is it?

5. 11 years!

6. ELMS Initiative contributions have been downloaded
over 940,000 times
and have more then
16,747 reported installs
*reported installs typically assumed ~10% actual value
Impact on

7. Drupal developers are constantly making the Learning Network
better through contributed module fixes and improvements, all
without any knowledge of ELMSLN or need to care about edtech!
Impact on

9. Today…
and the last 20 years

10. Build things doing too much

11. Pattern based system automation
• Abstraction at upper layers can always be applied deeper
• Just ask Docker community
• Break system goal into discrete functions
• Utilize REST and automation to unify experience
• Ability to grow into multiple pieces (3 dimensional scale)

12. One of those setups
media.site.com
courses.site.com
blog.site.com
analytics.site.com
studio.site.com
online.site.com
interact.site.com

13. ELMSLN Deployments
sciences.psu.edu
jenkins
smeal.psu.edu
hhd.psu.edu
aanda.psu.edu
ag.psu.edu
stem-researchethics.org

14. Deployment 2
media.site.com
courses.site.com
blog.site.com
studio.site.com
online.site.com

15. Buttercups UK Med Training

16. Complexity formed of simplicity

17. Cool idea + 1

18. Graduated Cool idea

19. Future proofing w/o sacrifice

20. Each course is a network of systems

21. (Stack)

22. New tool

23. What about UX?

24. ANGEL
data

25. ANGEL
data
Moodle
Canvas
Anything w/API…

26. this is not new though..

36. Studio

41. ICOR

42. Discuss

43. Course / Network centric
NOT logistics centric

44. Links don’t change, patterns
remain the same…

45. PATTERNS = AUTOMATION
We “program” courses to run without
the need to manage and tweak the
replication of billions of files while
still being tailored!

46. Current Students

47. Specialized media needs Students

48. Past Students

49. Tokenizing
course
logistics
too!

53. Join Us!

54. Questions
@btopro
elmsln.org