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Using Drupal to Transform Education btopro @btopro http://btopro.com/ http://drupal.psu.edu/ Bryan Ollendyke

Drupal Education Unconf • Drupalcon Portland • Monday May 20 th , 2013 • Follow Funnymonkey.com

btopro • Contrib / distribution dev from PSU • Head of ELMS initiative (GPL) • Allow philosophy to drive tech • Don’t just say things, do them

Society pushing change • Massively open online course • “MOOC” -> Educators as � ‘Like whatever’ -> teenagers • Everyone talking about it or OER • Lots of evidence this provides quality experiences (see next slide)

EVIDENCE

Seriously though • Great opportunity / risk • Disrupt or be disrupted • Regardless, need to provide better experience / outcomes

Just 1 attempt to disrupt • Philosophy: Structured Anarchy • Technology: Drupal + LTI • Goal: extend experiences beyond what a single system can provide • How: Series of interconnected multi- sites that user can create, access and expand on-demand

Single point of failure LMS (ANGEL)

Over Crowded feature-set mail discussions rosters syllabus LMS (ANGEL) grades Rubrics content collab

Faculty / student response Discussion LMS (ANGEL) Course Rubrics Blogging Studio

Suite of Tools LMS (ANGEL) Service Service Middleware Service Service Service Service

Inflexibility LMS (ANGEL) Service Service Middleware Service Service Service Service

Maximizing flexibility LMS (ANGEL) instance Service instance instance instance Service Middleware instance Service instance instance Service Service instance instance Service instance instance instance instance

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Example Suite of Tools LMS (ANGEL) Blogging Course Studio Information System (Online) Rubrics Case based Discussion learning Course

Wants to Extend Experience Clicks link to add External Tool LTI launch LMS (ANGEL) Instructor Prepopulated form Request form filled out based on context of request Blogging Instructor Course Studio Information System (Online) Rubrics Case based Discussion learning Course

Course Information System Ok CIS, lets go make the course first backend drush script is invoked Art 20 Blogging What this does… Art 20 Creates symlink on the Courses's system courses/art020 Creates database / db user called courses_aa_art020 Creates site files in multisite (courses/sites/courses/aa/art020) Course Creates site record in sites/sites.php Studio Information Executes a Drush SI to install the MOOC distribution System Writes a UUID into the service that's listed in CIS (Online) Runs any other crush commands CIS said Rubrics Imports the selected instructional outline (MOOC only) Runs cron Case What Cron does… Discussio based Uses own UUID to request record in CIS n learning Updates it's own record in CIS with own cron key Then refreshes list of known content outlines on service Asks CIS for latest college footer information Updates Section in CIS to UUID of the outline used Course Service is now self-aware, will keep in sync on cron job Art 20 Do this again for each other service requested... ALL DONE! Time to email the person that requested this..

Clicks link I want to access my course content LMS (ANGEL) Instructor Art 20 Course Studio Information System (Online) Rubrics Art 20 Course Gets account in course LTI hops make it seamless Art 20 Instructor

Learner LMS (ANGEL) Learner Art 20 Course Studio Information System (Online) Rubrics Art 20 Learner Discussion node.js Course Art 20 Learner Art 20 Learner

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