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@webavant.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:45 PM To: support@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@webavant.com] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:55 PM To: support@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 Personally, I would focus my efforts on finding better solutions to use rather than outdated abandoned modules.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@vailtech.net (510) 444-5380
-----Original Message----- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 1:36 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Class modules
Quoting Warren Vail warren@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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