Eduglu

Open Source Drupal-based Social Learning Platform

About me (Kyle Mathews)

• Blog: http://kyle.mathews2000.com• Twitter: twitter.com/kylemathews• Eduglu twitter: twitter.com/eduglu• Building Drupal sites for ~3 years. Social Learning sites for

2.5 years.• Google Summer of Code -- Memetracker• Graduated December 2009 with Masters in Information

Systems From BYU•  Started company to sell social learning solutions to Higher

Education / Enterprise. See us at http://eduglu.com

Roadmap for Session

1. Who are you? And why do you care about Eduglu (enough to be sitting here right now anyways)?

2. Why Eduglu? What's the need?3. What is Eduglu (in short)?4. Hands on Demo!

State of Social Learning 2010

It kind of sucks

Hard to SETUP

a) Takes great skill + effort to find/understand/use successfully

b) Tools (twitter, blogger, facebook, flickr, second life, etc not designed

for education

Logistics Tough

Students HATE having to learn multiple tools for one class

It's a lot of work for teachers to manage

Often Confusing

Tools aren't designed for

educational use. So teachers/students

have to work around

assumptions of the tool.

No Consistency

Across tools, classes, majors.

Each class using social media is one-off experiment.

This can't scale.

State of social learning in 2010?

 

Very few people using it

 

Arguing for centralized social learning platform

 

Eduglu in other words :)

 

Eduglu = Education Glue

 

Tool Glue

Gluing together legacy LMS systems, SIS, gradebooks, and 3rd-party learning tools such as Google Docs, wikis, blogs, micro-

blogging platforms such as Twitter, and so on.

Social Glue

Gluing together robust learning communities of all sorts on and off-

campus

Demo Time! Let's go look at https://island.byu.edu

 

How to Help on Eduglu?

* Sign up to help out at http://eduglu.com

* Download and give feedback at http://community.eduglu.org or by sending email to mathews.kyle@gmail.com** Latest release always at http://eduglu.com/download-eduglu

Technical stuff for developers:Make fileThe easiest way to grab a development copy of Eduglu with the latest code is to build Eduglu from it's make file.The Eduglu make file is at http://github.com/KyleAMathews/eduglu_makeSee http://drupal.org/project/drush_make for instructions on how to build Eduglu using its make file.Eduglu FeaturesThe Eduglu core features are tracked here: http://github.com/KyleAMathews/eduglu_featuresPlease file bugs and patches in the Eduglu issue queue at drupal.org/project/edugluEduglu theme (Dewey)The theme is here: http://github.com/KyleAMathews/deweyPlease file bugs and patches in the Eduglu issue queue at drupal.org/project/eduglu

The roadmap

• Release stable beta by end of the Summer• Add social learning tools

o Bloggingo Microblogging w/ integration w/ Twitter/Buzz/Facebook

etc.o Group Reader

e.g Aggregating Student blogs Aggregating expert blogs relevant to class / interest

group• Integrate with 3rd party tools such as:

o Google Docso Dropboxo Many others

How do I get me some Eduglu???

 

Everyone here gets free install of Eduglu!!!

Just send me an email @ mathews.kyle@gmail.com

Eduglu is open source!!!

So you can just download it and install it. Downloads at

http://eduglu.com/download-eduglu

Any questions / comments?

 

Hands on Demo

Tasks:1. Sign up at 

http://ttixdemo.eduglu.com/user/register

2. Join Sandbox group and post a comment or new discussion

3. Create group and turn on at least one additional learning tool

4. Join another group and say hi :)