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Drupal CMS For Education
The document discusses web content management for education and e-learning using both traditional and untraditional open source software solutions. It examines various content management systems (CMS), highlighting open source options like Drupal, Moodle, and proprietary systems like Blackboard, noting the importance of community support for effectiveness. The author argues that Drupal, in particular, offers a less restrictive approach compared to traditional learning management systems, making it suitable for educational purposes.
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Drupal CMS For Education
- 1. Web Content Managementfor Education and E-learning Untraditional Open Source Software Solutions
- 2. Before Web ContentManagement
- 3. Ambiguous Acronyms • CMS (Enterprise, Web, Mobile) • WCMS • LMS • VLE • iLearn • WTF?
- 4. What Is Content? • Text, HTML, XML • Images and graphics • Audio and video • Electronic documents of any kind
- 5. What is ContentManagement? Rules, process, and workflow to keep content manageable. Non-technical staff and users can add, edit, and delete content. Of course, on the Internet.
- 6. “We have ALOT 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)
- 7. For Education andE-learning • What are the traditional options? – Paid $oftware licenses – ―Free,‖ Open Source Software – Build it yourself
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- 9. For “Classroom” Education •Open Source Software – Moodle(iLearn) – Sakai – Claroline – ATutor • Proprietary $oftware – Blackboard
- 10. Open Source Software 1. Free Redistribution 2. Source Code 3. Derived Works 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor 7. Distribution of License 8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software 10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral Open Source Initiative
- 11. Forrester Research ―For anopen 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‖
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- 14. Who Uses Drupal? Organizations Universities Companies – Unicef – Yale – Reuters – The UN – Harvard – Yahoo – PBS – Penn State – Adobe – NATO – Rice – The BBC – NASA – MIT – Forbes – Stanford Source: Urevick-Ackelsberg, ZivTech.com, Higher Education Web Symposium
- 15. 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
- 16. Pres. Obama IsUntraditional
- 17. Why Drupal forEducation? "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
- 18. He Would SayThat…
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- 20. Try Something Untraditional Traditional Drupal
- 21. Web Content Managementfor Education and E-learning Untraditional Open Source Software Solutions
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Editor's Notes
- #2 The traditional approach is to BUY software, and the service would be secondary. Help! PAY UP, says large software companies. Let’s have a look at some untraditional approaches to online education and e-learning solutions. Technical & Professional Writers are often the main decision makers…
- #3 Filing cabinets…Inner-office communicationWe would spend a lot more time on campus dealing with documents ourselves.
- #4 My intention is not to confuse you, but focus on an approach that Tech. & Pro. Writers will take to consider untraditional solutions for education and e-learning.
- #6 Educational content or otherwise.WYSIWYG editors, simple interface.
- #7 Availability from anywhere. Timely delivery and ease of use. Rate of change and ease of manipulation. Roles to contribute content and publish it…Technical & Pro. Writers have paved the way for document tracking, knowledge management, workflow, and WCM…
- #8 Traditionally, we would BUY software, and then deal with the support as an afterthought…“FREE” Open Source Software has.Most often “build it yourself” is a choice that Engineers make. EGO and JOB SECURITY.
- #10 Out of the box, these solutions allow educational institutions to apply curriculum and student access to course materials.
- #11 Basically, it should benefit the community involved, and switch the attention from licensing to SERVICES.
- #13 It has the backing…
- #16 Untraditional for Education & E-learning in an academic sense.Great for everything else!
- #17 Recovery.gov, which is primarily an educational website for the country to follow Obama’s recovery plan.
- #20 Packaged solution of common EDU requirementsMoodle is a packaged solution, and often why people choose it first.
- #22 END.