This document summarizes 4 open source Drupal applications for higher education: OpenScholar for faculty and student websites, Drupal Commons for internal and external community websites, OpenPublish for editorial publication websites, and ELMS for higher education courseware websites. It provides an overview of the features and benefits of each solution for deploying pre-configured Drupal distributions to meet the needs of higher education institutions.

1. Four Open Source Drupal
Applications for Higher Ed
Bryan House
VP Marketing
Acquia
November 3rd, 2011

2. Drupal is Changing the Web
Open source, social publishing phenomenon.
Market Size [ 1,000,000+ sites ]
Innovation [ 12,000+ modules ]
Community [ 600,000+ members ]
“… is as much a Social Software platform
as it is a web content management system.”
Real Story Group, The Web CMS Report 2010

3. Community Powered. Innovation.
Profiles &
Content
Friends
(Micro) Rich
Bloging Media
UGC Social Workflow
Analytics Menus
Groups Taxonomy
Social
Drupal
Theme
Tagging

4. Assembled Web Experiences
Architecture to rapidly “assemble” experiences from
building-blocks instead of code sites from scratch.
Drupal core Acquia Drupal Solution
+ recommended Distributions
modules

5. Who ?

6. Drupal Solutions
for Higher Education

7. 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

8. Drupal Solutions for Higher Education
OpenScholar Faculty and student websites
Internal & external community
Drupal Commons
websites
OpenPublish Editorial publication websites
Higher education courseware
ELMS
websites

9. 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

20. Open Scholar - Faculty & Project Sites
• Simple tools for
content creation
• Improve collaboration
and communication
• Rapid configuration
and rollout

21. 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
• Track participation via
community analytics

32. Commons - Community Websites
• Deploy pre-configured,
community sites quickly
• Foster self-organizing
collaboration across
diverse groups
• Create branded
experiences that meet
your institutionʼs needs

33. 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

39. OpenPublish - News/Magazine Websites
• Deploy best of breed
editorial websites quickly
• Encourage engagement
and participation to
increase traffic
• Increase revenue from
media properties

40. ELMS - E-Learning Management System
• Developed by internal
team at Penn State
• Create a unique site per
course
• Design engaging
experiences with highly
flexible theming layer
• Create and distribute
course outlines & materials
• Integrate rich media
courseware
• Meets necessary
accessibility requirements

41. Experience Design
Before - in LMS After - with Drupal ELMS

47. 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
- bto108@psu.edu

48. Drupal in Action at Portland State University
• Migrated 190 sites
from Drupal 6 to 7
• Standard branding,
with customization
options
• Pre-defined theming
& templates
• Syndicate content
across multi-site
deployment
• Partner - ImageX
Media

54. Drupal in Action at Portland State University
• Single platform
• Easier to manage
• Lower cost
• Reduced complexity
• Individual sites built
by department
• Learn more @
- http://imagexmedia.com/
drupal-education

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