Earlier this spring, the Knight Foundation let us know that our proposal to the Knight Drupal Initiative was accepted.
We are equal parts honored and excited, and work is underway.
Our project targets community media, and seeks to lower the barrier to entry for communities looking to collaborate with other like-minded groups via the web. One of the uses for our work will be within journalism, but other uses include collaborative creation of open courseware.
To be clear: this project will simplify the process of creating, distributing, and using open courseware. We want schools to spend less money on textbooks, and our work -- which will be freely available to all -- will support that goal.
As the project progresses, we will update this space with tutorials, status updates, etc. This page collects our Knight Drupal posts, or you can also subscribe via the feed.
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Knight got lucky!
Congratulations Bill, that is awesome.
SCORM
Will you be helping with the project to implement SCORM support in Drupal?
http://drupal.org/project/scorm
We did a Drupal For Education event recently and there was a lot of interest in moving from Moodle to Drupal once SCORM is available.
http://www.codepositive.com/news/drupal-education-london-may-2009
Not at this time
There have been a few discussions re SCORM support in Drupal over the years -- I suspect that there are some homegrown solutions floating around that are specific to the needs of the institutions that developed them.
On a personal level, I have very mixed feelings about SCORM -- it's a pretty monstrous spec, and despite its intent to deliver portable content between various LMS's, the actual implementations generally appear to be platform specific.
But wait, if Drupal is going
But wait, if Drupal is going to take over the education world we *need* a proprietary SCORM implementation to ensure lock-in. Oh wait... I'm reading from the wrong playbook again. Never mind...
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