ELMS

• What is ELMS?
• So why Drupal or more importantly, why not Moodle?
• Is there a Paas option to use ELMS?
• How long has this been around?
• Is it a project? or a distribution?
• Before we started recording, you mentioned the ELMS style guide. What is that?
• What was the D6 functionality?
• How has the functionality changed in D7?
• Why go the route of 10 different distributions instead of one?
  • How do they all work together? Can they share content or functionality?
• What are the D7 distributions?
  • ELMS: Course Information System
  • ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (MOOC)
  • ELMS: Collaborative learning
  • ELMS: Media
  • Ulmus Distribution (base distribution)
  • Planned for the future
    • ELMS: ICOR Distribution
    • ELMS: LAR Distribution
    • ELMS: CIS Compliance
    • ELMS: CIS Helpdesk
    • ELMS: Case based learning distro
• How did you get it to be accepted by the university? Especially with the GPL license?
• You mentioned that your are able to contribute back to Drupal in a way that is a bit different from most universities. Do you want to explain that a little bit?
• Why work directly in Education?

Use Cases

• Is this targeted primarily at Universities or K-12 districts?
• Do you know of any, or have a list of schools using it now?
• What’s in the pipeline for future development/functionality?

Questions from Twitter

• Eric Aitala
  What are your thoughts about MOOCs and their relevance in HigherEd?
• Rachel Lawson
  Interested in plans. Just about to migrate a site to d7 for Cardiff University Hospital that has CPD work on it... (Continuing Professional Development)

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