The document outlines a project leveraging Joomla to create India's largest learning platform for school children, aiming to impact 20 million children by 2020. It emphasizes the role of technology in addressing educational disparities and describes the platform's multi-layered technology stack, including various tools and services for content creation and collaboration. Key features of the platform include support for multiple Indian languages, a collaborative authoring workflow, and community engagement functionalities.

1. Powering India’s Largest learning
platform for School Kids with Joomla !

2. Parth Lawate
@parthlawate
parth@tekditechnologies.com
● CEO, Techjoomla & Tekdi
Technologies
● Strategic Marketing Manager
@Joomla Marketing Team
● Co Founder, JUG Pune
Joomla Freak, Book Mad, Trekking & Outdoor Guy, Promote Linux
in my sleep,Cook, Entrepreneur

3. Tekdi
Technologies
take the lead
● Working with Joomla since the
Mambo days - 11 + Years now
● Consulting and custom
development for Joomla
● Joomla for enterprise
● Client base across the world

4. Techjoomla
Joomla extensions & Custom
development
● Shika LMS, JGive, Quick2Cart,
JGive, JTicketing are some of
our popular Joomla extensions
● Key open source contributions
include REST API , Common
Payments API for Joomla
● Coming soon - common
reporting engine

5. AppCarvers
native & cross platform mobile
apps
● Products for EasySocial,
JTicketing in the Joomla space
using com_api as the backend
● Consulting and custom
development for Mobile apps
and cross platform chrome
apps

6. Powering India’s Largest learning
platform for School Kids with Joomla !

7. the goal
to impact 20 million children across India and other
developing countries by 2020

8. The Problem
The lack of access to learning opportunities is a complex and multidimensional
problem. It impacts the lives of millions of children on a daily basis

9. and technology is
part of the solution

10. Solving it with technology
technology can be a key driver to solve
some of the root causes of these
problems
● Quality Content
● Content Effectiveness Feedback
& analytics
● Content creation and
collaboration tools
● Matching needs to resources and
closing the demand/supply gap
● Enabling collaboration between
subject matter experts, teachers
& content creators

11. 1. Application for learner to
use, Portal for
ecosystem to collaborate
& evolve
2. Content Repository,
publishing tools and
analytics
3. Concept maps,teaching
methods, language
models and analytics
4. Open tech platform with
API's
the EkStep Solution

13. a recent real world use case

14. the technology
stack

15. Multi Layer approach (Micro services Arch)
Layered, modular
platform allows diverse
use cases

16. Simplified representation of the working pieces
Joomla being the glue that ties them all together
Joomla
Data AnalyticsLearning PlatformAuthoring Engine
Android App
Teachers, Domain Experts, Animators, Content Creators, Partners etc.
Learner

17. Technologies
● Apache Kafka
● Secor
● Amazon S3
● Spark Jobs
● Elasticsearch
● Logstash
● Kibana
● Piwik
Data Pipeline & Analytics
● Kong - API Management
● NGINX - Reverse Proxy
Other

18. Technologies
● Java
● Neo4J
Content Platform
● Android
Genie - App
● Angular JS
Authoring Tool
● Apache
● PHP FPM
● Joomla
Ecosystem Portal

19. Special mentions in the Joomla Stack
● Service Layer for API Interaction (Below the Model layer)
● Analytics Tracking with Piwik
● Parametric Search - Inline editing for JForm (in progress)
● REST API layer
Some of these are PR’s in the making.

20. User Roles
● Content Creator - Portal
● Partner - Portal
● Learner - App

21. Key Features

22. Wordnet
● English + 7 regional Indian
languages - growing and
evolving every day
● Orthographic and Phonological
complexity mapping
● Grade suitability mapping
● Integration with Authoring tool
for use content development
● Integration with portal for
automated volunteer driven
task completion
a lexical database of a language

23. Content Library
collaboratively built learning
content
● Multiple content types
supported - Stories,
Worksheets, Collections &
Games
● Reporting Engine
● Ability to Fork content
● Creative commons 4.0

24. Content Authoring
Collaborative authoring and
publishing review
● Collaborative Authoring
workflow
● Sensible publishing workflow
● Integration with ‘needs engine’
to supply content for specific
needs

25. Social
Create, Manage & Attend Events
Read and Comment on Blogs
Engage with focussed communities
Collaborate on Content

26. Community
promoting user contributions
Partner Communities
Expert Communities
Developer Communities

27. Engage &
Collaborate
community features to help
users engage and collaborate
Community Activity Streams
Group Discussions
Polls
Events
Share

28. Analytics
Insights about
Different pages being viewed.
Actions performed on the pages.
Type of users using the portal.
Learner Analytics

29. Demo Lets see it in action !

30. Questions ?