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DrupalED Proposed Logo

Travis Christopher has done an awesome job of designing an initial Drupal for Education (DrupalED) logo. Want to give feedback? Head on over to DrupalED.org.

What is DrupalED? Well, it's aim is to be a central gathering space for efforts around using Drupal in educational settings. Short term goals are to gather requirements and recommendations for different modules and configurations, with the long term goal of having downloadable install profiles for different types of educational uses, from primary school to high school or post-secondary. More input and contributors are welcome!

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deekayen’s picture

deekayen commented

For the record, I swear I didn't know about drupaled before I submitted my SoC app.

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aries commented

To do a nice LMS like Moodle is a very hard job.
Initally, if you can produce an awesome SCORM player, you've done the half of the work.

The major problem of the current LMS is that they are not support a flexibile layout design like Drupal. They focus on learning-teching. The look&feel is also important, but it seems to me they aren't have enough resources to separate the logic and layout. Moodle is a functional rich LMS, check it out and do a better if you can! :)
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deekayen commented

SCORM is the big buzz here in the USA, too, but as I talk to companies that have been requiring SCORM, they don't actually use it - they just like to feel good about having it available. Disney is one of them.

I think it's a fad just waiting for something better to come along, but unfortunately it probably will have a big impact on acceptance of DrupalED (strictly my opinion, of course).

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killes@www.drop.org commented

At least there is now a Drupal module that might help a bit:

http://drupal.org/project/evaluation
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deekayen commented

Maybe I'm just missing something, but what does the evaluation module have to do with SCORM?

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Gunnar Langemark commented

SCORM was the big buzz in 1999 and 2000 when I was at Oracle Denmark working on "object oriented" e-learning (I think I still have the printouts of the proposals). I thought that it had all but disappeared.
I was very much into granula and metadata at that time, and wrote a "process" for production of learning objects, with different didactical approaches.

But it is no surprise that it is not so much a real world success, as it is more pleasing to the theorist, than to the producer.

My take now it that learning is very much "situated", bottom-up and needs to take account of so many things that it would be better not to strive for the very big scale re-usability here.
Also issues of design, tone of voice and such will go away as concepts like aggregation are adopted by users, and they get used to "patch work" learning material.
Back in the day we thought that we should be able to produce "content" which would fit seamlessly into the "lesson" and the "course" - and the "brand" of the producer or client company.
Fact may well turn out to be that the concepts of "lesson" and "course" are the ones that inevitably must change, so that they can accommodate new media forms without these superficial signs of cohesion.

So Drupal as a vehicle for online learning may be more like a matter of configuring the existing version, and less about having SCORM integrated.

Just my 2c

Gunnar Langemark
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deekayen commented

The other big one I'm always hearing about are the US military contractors who contact my department at school for advice and they always manage to work into the conversation how hard they're working to be SCORM compliant.

I'm guessing the original SCORM idea was to re-use basics of 2+2=4 and people blew it up to make it the solution to all content re-use. In practice, seems to me if you're having to sit down to put together some curriculum, that it wasn't there in the first place - ergo you're creating from scratch and anything you could re-use was basic enough to just re-write in the same time it would take to look up the SCORM.

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aries commented

SCORM is almost (maybe the only one?) a standard of e-learning material. The main concept was that to connect these materials to each other with a standard way, define learning paths. IMHO at least import/export is a key part of success of DrupalED in the chaotic world of LMS.
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alldirt commented

http://www.tutorswithoutlimits.com/ seems like a tremendous interesting project;
at least from an educational point of view. I was pleasantly surprised by the demo.

I expect this concept might work for Drupal using the collaborative editor, chat, video etcetera. Has anybody been working on a "Lesson Board" like this?

(Obviously, the quality of tutors is important but that is not my issue.)

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bob_irving commented

Hi all,

I'm playing with setting up a drupal site for my students. Here's the basic setup:

I have 5 classes. I want to give each student rights to change her (and only her) stuff. She would be able to add and update her projects, blog, etc.

Has anyone done something like this? What modules do I need installed and what would be the best way to go about this?

Thanks in advance,
Bob

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ahoppin commented

Hi folks, I'm helping with the planning for a new virtual University and we're assessing available technologies to create the virtual campus. If anyone could give me a high-level view of the status of DrupalED relative to Moodle and other open-source technology platforms for virtual learning, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thank you,
Andrew Hoppin