IT departments are continually faced with a variety of web challenges, these challenges have caused Universities to re-examine their online strategies and move from proprietary to open source software. Proprietary technologies are expensive, offer little flexibility, and don’t leave much room for innovation. Today, faculty members, researchers, and educators demand and need new ways to collaborate, publish information online, and interact with students. Universities need a more innovative, flexible approach to reduce costs, deploy applications quicker, and build next generation web experiences. This has resulted in two trends: widespread Drupal adoption on campuses, and the emergence of Drupal applications tailored for specific needs. These “distributions” reduce development time, costs, and enable internal resources to focus on developing innovative web experiences. Distributions such as OpenScholar, OpenPublish, Drupal Commons, and ELMS can either serve as an out of the box solution or foundation for further development. They’re each designed for different purposes, whether its to enable a user to create personal and collaborative websites without the aid of IT; create online communities for faculty, students and alumni; or empower faculty to design and outline courses more effectively. Although different, they are built on the same underlying open source, Drupal technology.

1. Four Open Source Drupal
Applications for Higher Education
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VP Marketing
Acquia
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2. Your Institution Lives in
a Broad Digital Ecosystem
University
Site
Department
Sites
Faculty
Sites
Recruiting
Sites
University
Social Media
Publications
Channels
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3. You Need a Flexible Web Platform
that Meets a Full Range of Needs
[scale]
Department
Sites
University
Sites
Faculty & other
Sites
[complexity & longevity]
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4. The Solution... Drupal
Open source, social publishing phenomenon.
Drupal powers > 2% of the Web.
Market Size [1,00,000+ sites]
Innovation [8,000+ modules]
Community [500,000+ members]
[“… is as much a Social Software platform
as it is a web content management system.”
The Real Story Group, The Web CMS Report 2011 ]
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5. profiles / content
friends
(micro)
rich media
blogging
templates
UGC
Social Publishing
workflow
analytics
Drupal
taxonomy
groups
social theme
tagging
Community Powered. Innovation.
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6. Who ?
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7. Drupal Can Power it all
on a Single, Integrated Platform
University
Site
Department
Sites
Faculty
Sites
Recruiting
Sites
University
Social Media
Publications
Channels
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8. Drupal Solutions
for Higher Education
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9. Packaged Drupal Solutions
Pre-configured, ready to use
Designed for specific use cases
Embedded best practices
Open, fully customizable
One-click install on Acquia Cloud platforms
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10. Assembled Web Experiences
Modular architecture to quickly “assemble” experiences
from building-blocks instead of coding sites from scratch.
[ ][ ][ ]
Drupal Core Horizontal Solution
Distributions Distributions
Acquia Drupal OpenScholar
Pressflow Drupal Commons
OpenPublish
ELMS
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11. Drupal Solutions for Higher Education
OpenScholar Faculty and student websites
Internal & external
Drupal Commons
community websites
OpenPublish Editorial publication websites
Higher education courseware
ELMS
websites
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12. Open Scholar - Faculty & Project Sites
Create new sites in seconds
Turn features on/off with
click of a button
Library of themes to
choose from
Drag & drop layout design
Content aggregation and
search across multiple sites
Invite users to site quickly
User-friendly content
creation / editing
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23. Open Scholar - Faculty & Project Sites
Simple tools for
content creation
Improve collaboration
and communication
Rapid configuration
and rollout
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24. Drupal Commons - Community Websites
Branded internal and
external communities
Join and manage groups
Collaborate on shared
content
Connect via activity
streams
Create profiles, friend
colleagues, award badges
Personalize dashboards
Track participation via
community analytics
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34. Drupal Commons - Community Websites
Deploy pre-configured,
community sites quickly
Foster self-organizing
collaboration across
diverse groups
Create branded
experiences that meet
your institution’s needs
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35. OpenPublish - News/Magazine Websites
Create social publishing
news sites quickly
Manage editorial
workflows and approvals
Encourage participation
with social tools
Build topic tubs by
taxonomy terms
Automate tagging for
semantically rich metadata
Manage advertising with
standard tools
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41. OpenPublish - News/Magazine Websites
Deploy best of breed
editorial websites quickly
Encourage engagement
and participation to
increase traffic
Increase revenue from
media properties
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42. ELMS - E-Learning Management System
Developed by internal
team at Penn State
Create a unique site per
course
Design engaging
experiences with highly
flexible theming layer
Create and distribute
course outlines & materials
Integrate rich media
courseware
Meets necessary
accessibility requirements
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43. Experience Design
Before - in LMS After - with Drupal ELMS
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49. ELMS - E-Learning Management System
Point-and-click site and
course outline creation
Add rich media assets to
courseware easily
Create engaging
experiences to foster
student engagement
More info:
– Bryan Ollendyke, Penn State
– Twitter/AIM/Drupal: btopro
– bto108@psu.edu
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50. [start!]
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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51. [start!]
Acquia
is Your [Learn]
Drupal [Build]
Guide
[Deploy ]
[Operate]
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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52. [start!]
Acquia
is Your [Learn]
Drupal [Build]
Guide
[Deploy ]
[Operate]
[ enterprise
deployment ]
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53. Drupal Solutions for Higher Education
Drupal Solutions
- Pre-configured to speed
deployment
- Creative freedom at lower
costs
- Scalable, turnkey architecture
Acquia
- Enterprise-class support
- Suite of cloud services
- Drupal expertise
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54. Thank You
Contact:
Bryan House | bryan@acquia.com | @bryanhouse
http://acquia.com/drupal-solutions
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