4 Open Source Drupal Applications for Higher Education

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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.

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Four Open Source Drupal Applications for Higher Education

Bryan HouseVP Marketing Acquia@bryanhouse

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Your Institution Lives in a Broad Digital Ecosystem

FacultySites

University Site

DepartmentSites

Recruiting Sites

Social MediaChannels

University Publications

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You Need a Flexible Web Platformthat Meets a Full Range of Needs

[sca

le]

Faculty & otherSites

DepartmentSites

UniversitySites

[complexity & longevity]

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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

The Solution... Drupal

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Open source, social publishing phenomenon. Drupal powers > 2% of the Web.

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(micro)blogging

UGC

analytics

groups

profiles / friends

socialtagging

Social

rich media

templates

workflow

taxonomy

content

theme

Publishing

Drupal

Community Powered. Innovation.

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Who ?

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Drupal Can Power it allon a Single, Integrated Platform

FacultySites

University Site

DepartmentSites

Recruiting Sites

Social MediaChannels

University Publications

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Drupal Solutions for Higher Education

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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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Assembled Web Experiences

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Modular architecture to quickly “assemble” experiences from building-blocks instead of coding sites from scratch.

[ ] [ ]Drupal Core Horizontal

DistributionsAcquia Drupal

Pressflow

SolutionDistributionsOpenScholar

Drupal CommonsOpenPublish

ELMS

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Drupal Solutions for Higher Education

OpenScholar Faculty and student websites

Drupal Commons Internal & external community websites

OpenPublish Editorial publication websites

ELMS Higher education courseware websites

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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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Open Scholar - Faculty & Project Sites

Simple tools for content creation

Improve collaboration and communication

Rapid configuration and rollout

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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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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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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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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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ELMS - E-Learning Management System

Developed by internal team at Penn StateCreate a unique site per courseDesign engaging experiences with highly flexible theming layerCreate and distribute course outlines & materialsIntegrate rich media courseware Meets necessary accessibility requirements

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Experience DesignBefore - in LMS After - with Drupal ELMS

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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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[start!]

[ enterprise deployment]

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Operate[ ]

[start!]

[ enterprise deployment]

Learn[ ]

Build[ ]

Deploy[ ]

Acquia is Your Drupal Guide

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Operate[ ]

[start!]

[ enterprise deployment]

Learn[ ]

Build[ ]

Deploy[ ]

Acquia is Your Drupal Guide

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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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Thank YouContact:

Bryan House | bryan@acquia.com | @bryanhouse

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