Drupal in education strategies, standalone vs collaboration, LMS

06 March 2015DrupalSouth Melbourne

WEB ENGINEERS

TOC

- Learning management systems

- Existing LMS

- LMS Platforms

- Drupal: Drupal and LMS / Drupal as LMS

- Project Lantern

- LMS vision

Who we are

http://www.technocrat.com.au/

Apologies Michelle

AHMED

Client services director

Joshua Vladimir

@joshmelbs @Vladimiraus

Learning management systems

Goals?

- institution

- content / course

- teacher, student

- rosters, grades, discussions, syllabus, collaboration, mail, chat...

- end-to-end, or just the middle part?

Learning management systems

- Benefits?

- For teachers or for students?

- For business or for Users?

Learning management systems

Existing LMS

- Moodle

- Banner

- Blackboard Learn

- Google LMS

- CUSTOM

- Others

LMS - Moodle

- Open source

- last release: 2.8.3 (Feb 2, 2015)

- Original release: 1999

- Written in PHP

- https://moodle.org/

LMS - Moodle

- PROS:

- all in one edu solution

- user friendly (see setup)

- education focused

- Large community

- Lots of modules

- Responsive

LMS - Moodle

- CONS:

- requires complex setup

- Build for function rather than form

- not user friendly out of the box

LMS - MOODLE

LMS - BANNERend-to-end?

LMS - Blackboard Learn

- Proprietary

- last release: 9.1 (April 2010)

- Original release: 1998

- Written in Java

- https://www.blackboard.com/

- Search “Blackboard learn”

LMS - Blackboard Learn

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

LMS - Blackboard Learn

LMS - Google Apps

- GOOGLE Applications for Education

- BASED on Google Projects: SITES, DRIVE

- SIMPLE STudent / TEACHER / course

LMS - Google Apps

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/

LMS PLATFORMS - Edx

LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

LMS PLATFORMS - Coursera

LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

LMS PLATFORMS - NoVoed

Custom LMS

- Premium price

- Additional Features

- Time consuming

Drupal

- Drupal + LMS

- Drupal as LMS

Drupal + LMS

- Integration

- LMS (usually moodle)

- Drupal for additional functionality

Drupal + LMS

PROS

- targeted goals

- separation

Drupal + LMS

CONS

- custom development

- multiple systems

- Wider Support Required

- authentication

Drupal AS LMS

ELMS (v6)

- https://www.drupal.org/project/elms

- Pennsylvania State University

- One solution for everything

- good start

- Similar to ubercart

Drupal AS LMS

ELMS learning network (ELMSLN, v7)

- https://www.elmsln.org/

- https://btopro.wordpress.com/

- https://github.com/btopro/elmsln

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

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

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

Project Lantern

DrupalSouth Melbourne

UX ALCHEMY | ENTERPRISE DRUPAL

Drupal 8 Based LMS

Project Lantern

- Mission

- Philosophy

- Audience

- Goals

- Roadmap

- Structure

History

- Focus Changed

- Original: moodle

- Current: LMS platform

- Inspiration: Drupal Commerce

Mission

To provide educational solution

- alternative

- accessible

- responsive

- community

- suite of tools

Philosophy

- open source

- education-down, developers-up

- no single client approach

- single focus at a time approach

Audience

1. Edu community

2. Users limited by current lms

3. new drupal users

4. Developers

Goals

1. Create alternative, not competition

2. edu-driven

3. outcome

- Configurations

- Distributions

- Modules

Structure - Global

SCHOOL ADMIN TEACHER STUDENT

COURSE MANAGEMENT

Teacher MANAGEMENT

School MANAGEMENT

Sign up MANAGEMENT

Structure - Course

ForumQuiz

CourseStudents Slides / Media

Report Section

Roadmap

- course module

- https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course

- Institution module

- Basic distribution

- Community documentation

- https://github.com/project-lantern

A vision for LMS

DrupalSouth Melbourne

UX ALCHEMY | ENTERPRISE DRUPAL

Drupal 8 Based LMS

MoodleBlackboardiTunes UCoursera

MoodleBlackboardiTunes UCoursera

MoodleBlackboardiTunes UCoursera

Glorified Content Management Systems?

Horizontal Silosvs. Instructional Leadership

QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin GroupsCodeschool...

Vertical Silosvs. Integrated Learning

MechatronicsBiomechanicsEnvironmental Engineering...

MechatronicsBiomechanicsEnvironmental Engineering…

● Rethink KPIs for educators● Different education settings require different

integration methods.

Horizontal Silosvs. Instructional Leadership

Vertical Silosvs. Integrated Learning

RDBMS vs Graphs

RDBMS vs Graphs

Traditional learning vs. a Gamified Experience

QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin GroupsCodeschool...

QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin Groups

Codeschool...

QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin Groups

Codeschool...

QuoraStackoverflowLinkedin Groups

Codeschool...

Advent of the

Digital Course Designer?

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.

A vision for LMS

- Moodle

- Blackboard

- iTunes U

- Coursera

Glorified Content Management Systems?

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

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

References

Project Lantern

- https://github.com/project-lantern/lmsl_course