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.TRANSCRIPT
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– [email protected]
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Operate[ ]
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[ 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 | [email protected] | @bryanhouse
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