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Project LeadELMS Initiative

Instructional Systems ArchitectE-Learning InstituteCollege of Arts & ArchitecturePenn State University

@btopro (aka Bryan Ollendyke)

ELMS:LN is a series of networked Drupal sites to form course networks.Automation / DevOps keeps the process manageable

Everything REST capable and built on demand.Networks are formed of Services (per course) and Authorities (per learning

network)

New idea New Distribution New domain New tool

What is it?

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11 years!

ELMS Initiative contributions have been downloaded over 940,000 timesand have more then

16,747 reported installs

*reported installs typically assumed ~10% actual value

Impact on

Drupal developers are constantly making the Learning Network better through contributed module fixes and

improvements, all without any knowledge of ELMSLN or need to care about edtech!

Impact on

Today…and the last 20 years

Build things doing too much

One of those setups

media.site.com

courses.site.com

blog.site.com

analytics.site.com

studio.site.comonline.site.com

interact.site.com

Pattern based system automation• Abstraction at upper layers can always be applied deeper

• Just ask Docker community

• Break system goal into discrete functions

• Utilize REST and automation to unify experience

• Ability to grow into multiple pieces (3 dimensional scale)

ELMSLN Deployments

sciences.psu.edu

jenkins

smeal.psu.edu

hhd.psu.edu

aanda.psu.edu

ag.psu.edu

stem-researchethics.org

Deployment 2

media.site.com

courses.site.com

blog.site.com

studio.site.comonline.site.com

Buttercups UK Med Training

Complexity formed of simplicity

Cool idea + 1

Graduated Cool idea

Future proofing w/o sacrifice

Each course is a network of systems

(Stack)

New tool

What about UX?

ANGEL

data

ANGELdata

MoodleCanvas

Anything w/API…

this is not new though..

Studio

ICOR

Discuss

Course / Network centricNOT logistics centric

Links don’t change, patterns remain the same…

PATTERNS = AUTOMATION

We “program” courses to run without the need to manage and tweak the replication of billions of

files while still being tailored!

Current Students

Specialized media needs Students

Past Students

Tokenizingcourse

logisticstoo!

Join Us!

Questions

@btopro

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