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• Risk due to outdated infrastructure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