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When Higher Education Goes Digital
Creating Compelling Website, E-learning and Social Experiences, Affordably
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Staying Abreast of Changing Web Technologies
IT:
• Maintaining existing infrastructure, delivering innovative digital experiences and managing content - Decentralized hosting
- Legacy servers
- Obsolete development tools
- Tight budgets
• Risk due to outdated infrastructure
• Rising student, faculty and staff expectations
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Staying Abreast of Changing Web Technologies
Faculty, staff, students:
• Need engaging, interactive web, e-learning and social environments
• Reliant on IT to develop and maintain content
• Must remain innovative to attract students and supporters
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Solution = Drupal + Acquia
• Create compelling web sites, e-learning and social experiences - affordably
• Deliver rich media content to web, social, and mobile channels
• Reduce operating costs
• Reduce IT workload
• Reduce risk
• Increase educational results
• Support students, staff, and faculty
• Build connections with off-campus supporters and sponsors
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Solution = Drupal + Acquia
• 71 out of the top 100 universities use Drupal
• Drupal in Education spans all 50 states and the globe
• MIT, Oxford and every Ivy League School, uses Drupal
• 26% of all Education sites worldwide use Drupal, double the nearest competitor
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Drupal
• Faculty and educational staff develop and maintain sites they want; IT provides centralized hosting and support
• Application development environment for assembling EDU solutions oriented around content and community
• Tailor content delivery to meet the objectives of informational campaigns
- Content flows seamlessly across web, social, and mobile channels, on demand and as required
• Users begin with a rich set of content and community-enabled modules
• Worldwide Drupal community for sharing experiences and driving innovation
• Easy to retire legacy infrastructure and build next-generation solutions
• Readily integrate with other on-campus systems and applications
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Acquia
• Expertly curated versions of Drupal for assembling educational applications, managing multiple web sites from a single source across a campus, building social sites, distributing mobile content, and deploying learning solutions
• Hosts Drupal environments for campus-wide deployments optimized for high performance and designed to adapt to highly variable network traffic, such as when students return to campus and are enrolling in classes
• Provides training, site planning and professional services essential for campuses to build their Drupal expertise
- Technical expertise to help solve complex integration tasks, such as incorporating very large legacy databases into a Drupal-powered site
- Supports campus developers with a hosted development environment, a range of developer tools, and a community-driven knowledge base
• School only pays for the systems and network resources it consumes
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What Does This Mean for Users?
• Users easily develop and maintain engaging educational, social and e-learning sites
- Deliver online courseware – combining video and audio tracks with lesson plans, lecture notes, and links to reading assignments and tests
- Blend published information with user-generated content
• Maintain autonomy, control/manage content, and easily launch own sites within the context of the campus environment, eliminating reliance on IT assistance
• Raise awareness about academic, social, and scientific activities
• Forge deep connections with off-campus supporters and sponsors
• Cut costs
- No software licensing fees
- Only pay for IT services used
• Non-technical users can get out of the hardware and infrastructure support business
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What Does This Mean for IT?
• Modernize web infrastructure
• Efficiently support multiple educational activities and web sites of faculty and staff
• Cut costs, risk and workload while increasing productivity
• Ensure consistent look and feel for university web sites
• Share design, best practices, code snippets, and functional modules through the open source community
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Modernizing Campus Web Infrastructure
• Drupal provides flexibility and extensibility
• Engaging sites and educational experiences
- Content- and community-centric
- Incorporate structured and unstructured data sources
- Blend published information with user-generated content
• Reduce time, effort spent on application development
- Users begin with rich set of modules
- Quickly assemble applications from building blocks
- Extend modules for additional functionality or develop new modules for new functionality
• Global Drupal community for sharing experiences, driving innovation; reach out to colleagues at other institutions for help
- 16,000 active developers and nearly 800,000 users
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Modernizing Campus Web Infrastructure
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• Challenges:
- Operating decentralized environment with 600+ servers
- Producing static content with outdated tools
- Storing information in discrete databases
- No way to deliver web, mobile, social experiences
• Results:
- Centralized IT
- Single, campus-wide CMS
- Delivers engaging, current web experiences and new educational activities
- Consistent look and feel for campus sites
- Information architecture for categorizing content into well-recognized categories
- Migrating legacy content into single infrastructure
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Multiple Faculty, Research, Student and Administrative Sites
• Drupal enables numerous sites from common core
- Self-service options to quickly, easily create/maintain their own customized sites
- Eliminates reliance on IT
• Reduce investments, staffing and costs; only pay for IT resources used
• Acquia training and technical expertise, including
- Supporting existing single sign-on services
- Integrating Drupal with federated ID and authentication services
- Encapsulating legacy databases within Drupal site
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Multiple Faculty, Research, Student and Administrative Sites
• Bentley University
• Challenges:
- Manual approach to publishing workflow
- Difficult and expensive to retain developers
- Static, inflexible functionality
- Slow performance and lower content visibility
- CMS product no longer supported
• Results:
- Consolidate and centrally manage content; content unique to respective areas and shared across subdomains easily and dynamically
- Reduced resource demands
- Migration direct and reliable
- Search and page load performance improved
- Content created more easily and frequently
- Information is more accessible
- Cut costs
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Create and Maintain Social Sites and E-Learning Environments
• Drupal offers social networking and community-building modules
• Users design sites by choosing from modules or distributions of packaged modules
• Enables structured learning with rich media content
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Create and Maintain Social Sites and E-Learning Environments
• Penn State (ELMS)
• Challenges:
- Extend web from passive online resource into active, engaging learning environment
- Support teaching across campus
• Results:
- Drupal ELMS, blending rich media with text
- Faculty manage course content and activities
- Students collaborate; share projects
- New capabilities added as requirements change
• Easily modify access controls to certain courses to benefit global student community (Open Educational Resources (OER))
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Promote Web Experiences
• Proactively engage sponsors/funders
• Target content delivery to stakeholders- Tailor messages for email campaigns
- Leverage social media
- Syndicate content to web, social and mobile sites supporters visit
• Track results
• Manage relationships with key supporters
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Next-Generation Digital Experiences
• Drupal: Flexible, open source platform enabling non-technical users to quickly and easily create and maintain compelling sites, affordably
• Acquia:
- Enterprise-grade support, training, hosting, development ensuring success with Drupal
- Drupal Solutions engage student, staff, faculty across web and best serve
constituencies/stakeholders
• Acquia Drupal: fast, easy web publishing
• Drupal Commons: building/hosting collaborative web sites
• Enterprise Drupal Gardens: creating/managing large numbers of web sites
• OpenScholar: creating turnkey faculty sites (developed at Harvard)
• Open Academy: creating departmental sites (developed at Stanford and U California, Berkley)
• ELMS: online learning and assignments
• Acquia Managed Cloud: hosting high-traffic sites requiring enterprise-level support; customers no longer maintain hardware, OS, etc.
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Drupal in EDU:• Australian National University
• Boston University
• Brown University
• California Institute of Technology
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Duke University
• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris
• Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
• Erasmus Universiteit
• Harvard University
• Heidelberg University
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Imperial College London
• Johns Hopkins University
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• King’s College London
• Kyoto University
• Mass Institute of Technology
• McGill University
• Monash University
• Nanyang Technological University
• National Taiwan University
• National University of Singapore
• New York University
• Northwestern University
• Penn State University
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• Stanford University
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Trinity College Dublin
• Tsinghua University
• University of Alberta
• University of Amsterdam
• University of British Columbia
• University of Alberta
• University of Amsterdam
• University of British Columbia
• University of California, Berkeley, LA, San Diego
• University of Cambridge
• University of Chicago
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Helsinki
• University of Illinois
• University of Melbourne
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of New South Wales
• University of North Carolina
• University of Oxford
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Queensland
• University of Sheffield
• University of Southampton
• University of St. Andrews
• University of Sydney
• University of Texas
• University of Toronto
• University of Warwick
• University of Wisconsin
• University of Western Australia
• University of Wisconsin
• Uppsala University
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Yale University