Defining Drupal Competencies
One of the many Drupal Open Learning projects currently underway is the weekly Training and Curriculum Chat driven by the Learning Drupal Working Group -- this groups work is currently focused on Defining Drupal Competencies as the next step in defining a framework and taxonomy for Drupal learning programs.
Ultimately, the work of this group should lead to the open development and refinement of a taxonomy for all Drupal training and a framework that will help organize and reference all learning object
Some possible characteristics of a successful/useful open curriculum
Inspired by the IRC discussion on 3 May, here are some notes on criteria by which we could judge the success of a curriculum design project.
Why an Education, Training, and Curriculum 'Kata' group?
As Drupal is mainly a code development community, most of the Kata projects will fall under that realm. Building an open source Drupal curriculum is one of those projects that won't produce code, but will still will take a good deal of planning, time, and money to produce something useful for individuals wanting to learn to companies that may want to re-purpose the materials for their own needs.
As with any Kata project, the curriculum will be available under a free distribution license (e.g., GPL, Creative Commons, BSD, etc.) and contributed back to the Drupal community.
Simple Version of Quiz and Training Features
The attached are some sample features - very early stage, for creating group specific quizzes and training in Atrium.
Ideal theme for educational site
I have been working with drupal since 2007 and I am astonished by all the possibilities of the open cms, all the modules and themes. Last year I started working on my own theme, based on bluemarine. It is a three column website with a heading, a sub-heading with three columns, then the 'main content area' with two sidebars, with a special view above the two sidebars. Underneath the page there is a three column area again, followed by a footer-area.