Eduglu session notes
- It's hard to build a quality social networking / social learning website in Drupal.
- Two aspects:
- Coding Drupal to do what we want
- Understanding human psychology well enough so social learning tools actually help.
- Drupal lends its self to community sites, but can be (nearly) infinitely adapted.
- It's hard to share learning tools we build with other learning groups. Related problem difficult to collaborate with others.
Common platform / common framework / common language for talking about problems / use cases
what should a social lms be?
Need more learning tools [Be more specific below (expand the How Do You... outline)]
Tools aren’t packaged in distribution or otherwise easy to find / configure
Drupal as an LMS? Portal? Community manager? Academic administration? 3rd party tool integration?
- SCORM module hung on D5.
- Need learning pattern language for clear communication of processes and goals.
- Is Drupal more of a framework, an ecosystem of interacting modules? How do we manage the ecosystem?
- Clear over-arching plan and interrelationships of purposes and goals.
- Discover (or define) common patterns or structures that could be generically built as a starting base for customization.
How Do You Want to Use Drupal in Education?
- directories and profiles
- scheduling
- employment
- scheduling teachers and sections
- course cataloging
- long-term degree planning
- classes
- departments (emphases)
- user groups
- e-learning courses
- SCORM content hosting/management
- testing
- tie in Moodle, Blackboard, other LMS’s, or CMS’s
- authoring learning content
- export to SCORM
- setup sequences and branches for adaptive learning
- handling media
- tech support
- academic counseling
- research web sites
- official web sites
Collaboration? [fits under social networking?] --> maybe like Etherpad (www.etherpad.com)?
Post a project to: innovation.edu.gov where we may win funding for these projects.
Further (related) discussion available at: http://etherpad.osuosl.org/vAICyfuHiG