Using Drupal in education: strategies, standalone vs collaboration ============== There is no simple solution to cover all the challenges that education is currently facing. The number of software applications that are currently on the market are addressing only fraction of requested features. After extensive research and the number of specialized and customized projects for universities, we set the goal to create LMS that education sector is craving for. This session will address: - history of education software including current education software leaders (open source and others) - education software approaches: collaborative (using LMS with Drupal) versus standalone (can Drupal be an LMS?) - LMS for Drupal 8 ============== https://melbourne2015.drupal.org.au/session/using-drupal-education-strategies-standalone-vs-collaboration

1. Drupal in education
strategies, standalone vs collaboration, LMS
06 March 2015
DrupalSouth Melbourne
WEB ENGINEERS

2. TOC
- Learning management systems
- Existing LMS
- LMS Platforms
- Drupal: Drupal and LMS / Drupal as LMS
- Project Lantern
- LMS vision

3. Who we are
http://www.technocrat.com.au/
Apologies Michelle
AHMED
Client services director
Joshua Vladimir
@joshmelbs @Vladimiraus

4. Learning management systems
Goals?
- institution
- content / course
- teacher, student
- rosters, grades, discussions, syllabus, collaboration, mail, chat...
- end-to-end, or just the middle part?

6. Learning management systems
- Benefits?
- For teachers or for students?
- For business or for Users?

7. Learning management systems
Existing LMS
- Moodle
- Banner
- Blackboard Learn
- Google LMS
- CUSTOM
- Others

8. LMS - Moodle
- Open source
- last release: 2.8.3 (Feb 2, 2015)
- Original release: 1999
- Written in PHP
- https://moodle.org/

9. LMS - Moodle
- PROS:
- all in one edu solution
- user friendly (see setup)
- education focused
- Large community
- Lots of modules
- Responsive

10. LMS - Moodle
- CONS:
- requires complex setup
- Build for function rather than form
- not user friendly out of the box

11. LMS - MOODLE
LMS - BANNER
end-to-end?

12. LMS - Blackboard Learn
- Proprietary
- last release: 9.1 (April 2010)
- Original release: 1998
- Written in Java
- https://www.blackboard.com/
- Search “Blackboard learn”

13. LMS - Blackboard Learn

14. LMS - Blackboard Learn
2011: CourseSites, cloud solution
2012: "Blackboard's focus on acquisitions
prevented the company from fully focusing
on their software products, which has led to
the continual introduction of additional
features, known as feature creep."
Rip Empson, TechCrunch

15. LMS - Blackboard Learn

16. LMS - Google Apps
- GOOGLE Applications for Education
- BASED on Google Projects: SITES, DRIVE
- SIMPLE STudent / TEACHER / course

17. LMS - Google Apps

18. LMS PLATFORMS
- https://www.edx.org/
- https://novoed.com/
- https://www.coursera.org/
- https://www.apple.com/au/education/ipad/itunes-u/
- https://www.khanacademy.org/
- Open Universities http://www.open.edu.au/

19. LMS PLATFORMS - Edx

20. LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

21. LMS PLATFORMS - Coursera

22. LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

23. LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

24. LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

25. Custom LMS
- Premium price
- Additional Features
- Time consuming

26. Drupal
- Drupal + LMS
- Drupal as LMS

27. Drupal + LMS
- Integration
- LMS (usually moodle)
- Drupal for additional functionality

28. Drupal + LMS
PROS
- targeted goals
- separation

29. Drupal + LMS
CONS
- custom development
- multiple systems
- Wider Support Required
- authentication

30. Drupal AS LMS
ELMS (v6)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/elms
- Pennsylvania State University
- One solution for everything
- good start
- Similar to ubercart

32. Drupal AS LMS
ELMS learning network (ELMSLN, v7)
- https://www.elmsln.org/
- https://btopro.wordpress.com/
- https://github.com/btopro/elmsln

33. Drupal AS LMS
ELMS learning network (ELMSLN, v7)
ELMS: Course Information System (v6 & 7)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/cis
ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (v6 & 7)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/mooc

34. Drupal AS LMS
OPINGO
- https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno
- https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms
- Module and Distribution
- Drupal 7
- Uses OG, Quiz, Rules and Views

35. Drupal AS LMS
D7 Modules
● ROLES and PERMISSIONS: OG (or not), WORKBENCH (OR NOT)
○ STUDENT, TEACHER, ADMIN, DEVELOPER - interacting with THE ADMIN ui in very
different ways - but (maybe) in more fixed pre-structured ways for lms than
corporate site
● FOR LEARNING: quiz, course, achievements
● USER > COURSE WORKFLOW: entities, Inline entity form
● WEBFORM, ENTITYFORM, FORM API
● Date, caLendar, schedulER
● RULES, Message, Flag, ENTITY REFERENCES
● COMMERCE: ACCESS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, DOWNLOADS AS PRODUCTS
● accessibility

36. Project Lantern
DrupalSouth Melbourne
UX ALCHEMY | ENTERPRISE DRUPAL
Drupal 8 Based LMS

37. Project Lantern
- Mission
- Philosophy
- Audience
- Goals
- Roadmap
- Structure

38. History
- Focus Changed
- Original: moodle
- Current: LMS platform
- Inspiration: Drupal Commerce

39. Mission
To provide educational solution
- alternative
- accessible
- responsive
- community
- suite of tools

40. Philosophy
- open source
- education-down, developers-up
- no single client approach
- single focus at a time approach

41. Audience
1. Edu community
2. Users limited by current lms
3. new drupal users
4. Developers

42. Goals
1. Create alternative, not competition
2. edu-driven
3. outcome
- Configurations
- Distributions
- Modules

43. Structure - Global
SCHOOL ADMIN TEACHER STUDENT
COURSE MANAGEMENT
Teacher MANAGEMENT
School MANAGEMENT
Sign up MANAGEMENT

44. Structure - Course
ForumQuiz
CourseStudents Slides / Media
Report Section

45. Roadmap
- course module
- https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course
- Institution module
- Basic distribution
- Community documentation
- https://github.com/project-lantern

46. A vision for LMS
DrupalSouth Melbourne
UX ALCHEMY | ENTERPRISE DRUPAL
Drupal 8 Based LMS

47. Moodle
Blackboard
iTunes U
Coursera

49. Moodle
Blackboard
iTunes U
Coursera

50. Moodle
Blackboard
iTunes U
Coursera
Glorified Content Management Systems?

52. Horizontal Silos
vs. Instructional Leadership

53. Quora
Stackoverflow
Linkedin Groups
Codeschool
...

54. Vertical Silos
vs. Integrated Learning

55. Mechatronics
Biomechanics
Environmental Engineering
...

56. Mechatronics
Biomechanics
Environmental Engineering
…
● Rethink KPIs for educators
● Different education settings require different
integration methods.

57. Horizontal Silos
vs. Instructional Leadership
Vertical Silos
vs. Integrated Learning

58. RDBMS vs Graphs

59. RDBMS vs Graphs

60. Traditional learning vs. a Gamified Experience

61. Quora
Stackoverflow
Linkedin Groups
Codeschool
...

62. Quora
Stackoverflow
Linkedin Groups
Codeschool
...

63. Quora
Stackoverflow
Linkedin Groups
Codeschool
...

64. Quora
Stackoverflow
Linkedin Groups
Codeschool
...

66. Advent of the
Digital Course Designer?

68. The Vision
- Break horizontal silos.
- Data driven learning.
- Interdisciplinary learning by exposing content as
“knowledge integration points”.
- Empower students to participate in the teaching
process.
- Pop-up courses that live beyond their tenure.

69. A vision for LMS
- Moodle
- Blackboard
- iTunes U
- Coursera
Glorified Content Management Systems?

70. QUESTIONS?
http://www.technocrat.com.au/
http://www.slideshare.net/TECHNOCRATAU
https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course
AHMED
Client services director
Joshua Vladimir
@joshmelbs @Vladimiraus

71. References
LMS
- https://moodle.org/
- http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Overview.aspx
Drupal
- https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno
- https://www.elmsln.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kRau5-i4Fc

72. References
Project Lantern
- https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course