[support] Class modules

[Warren Vail]

Good sources, I have the book, found it lacking but didn't give any thought
to why.  Closer look at this indicates a difference between what I am
looking for and Mr. Fitzgerald's focus.  The book seems to focus on
supplementing the classroom process, instead of trying to find an
alternative to that process.

As a software developer, I have been part of, and victim of, a global effort
to imbed knowledge in software to make it unnecessary to keep lots of
developers on staff, allowing for offshore (cheaper) talent to supplant what
I do.  

My limited vision of what I needed would allow someone to create courses to
teach the special knowledge of the courses author, then, the teaching would
continue without the teacher's active participation.  Much of what I know
about Drupal development was learned this way, from books just like Mr.
Fitzgerald's, perhaps not as well done as formal teaching, but not as costly
as formal classrooms.

This raises the question, will educators become the next victims of
globalization?

Warren Vail

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Zielinski [mailto:tony at webavant.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:45 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Class modules

Bill Fitzgerald wrote a 400 page book about using Drupal for education  
actually http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-for-education-and-e-learning/book 
  .  You should read back through the posts on the Drupal in Education  
group at http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education .


On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Warren Vail wrote:

> Good input all, thanks for the clarifications, are there any other  
> modules
> that fit the bill.  I found one mention of LMS but only thing close  
> was at
> source forge and didn't seem intended for drupal.
>
> Warren Vail
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Zielinski [mailto:tony at webavant.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:55 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Class modules
>
> To satisfy your GPL concerns, they are still in the public domain
> despite the possibility that they may not be hosted anywhere.
> Actually, they are still hosted, you just did not check the
> appropriate tag in CVS.  Personally, I would focus my efforts on
> finding better solutions to use rather than outdated abandoned  
> modules.
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Warren Vail wrote:
>
>> Guess I am curious how something in the public domain could be  
>> legally
>> removed from the public domain?  I would think that would be in
>> conflict
>> with the terms of the open source license.
>>
>> Warren Vail
>> Vail Systems Technology
>> warren at vailtech.net
>> (510) 444-5380
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie at users.sourceforge.net]
>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:36 PM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: Re: [support] Class modules
>>
>> Quoting Warren Vail <warren at vailtech.net>:
>>
>>> Class
>>> Class Assignment
>>> Class Journal
>>> Class Note
>>> Class Portfolio
>>> Class Syllabus
>>>
>>
>> The code for these modules has been removed from CVS years ago.  They
>> are not maintained here.  That doesn't mean they are not maintained
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> --
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