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Project Lead
ELMS Initiative
Instructional Systems Architect
E-Learning Institute
College of Arts & Architecture
Penn State University
@btopro (aka Bryan Ollendyke)
ELMS:LN is a series of networked Drupal sites to form course networks.
Automation / DevOps keeps the process manageable
Everything REST capable and built on demand.
Networks are formed of Services (per course) and Authorities (per learning network)
New idea New Distribution New domain New tool
What is it?
NGDLE (2016 version)
11 years!
ELMS Initiative contributions have been downloaded
over 940,000 times
and have more then
16,747 reported installs
*reported installs typically assumed ~10% actual value
Impact on
Drupal developers are constantly making the Learning Network
better through contributed module fixes and improvements, all
without any knowledge of ELMSLN or need to care about edtech!
Impact on
NGDLE (2016 version)
Today…
and the last 20 years
Build things doing too much
Pattern based system automation
• Abstraction at upper layers can always be applied deeper
• Just ask Docker community
• Break system goal into discrete functions
• Utilize REST and automation to unify experience
• Ability to grow into multiple pieces (3 dimensional scale)
One of those setups
media.site.com
courses.site.com
blog.site.com
analytics.site.com
studio.site.com
online.site.com
interact.site.com
ELMSLN Deployments
sciences.psu.edu
jenkins
smeal.psu.edu
hhd.psu.edu
aanda.psu.edu
ag.psu.edu
stem-researchethics.org
Deployment 2
media.site.com
courses.site.com
blog.site.com
studio.site.com
online.site.com
Buttercups UK Med Training
Complexity formed of simplicity
Cool idea + 1
Graduated Cool idea
Future proofing w/o sacrifice
Each course is a network of systems
(Stack)
New tool
What about UX?
ANGEL
data
ANGEL
data
Moodle
Canvas
Anything w/API…
this is not new though..
NGDLE (2016 version)
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NGDLE (2016 version)
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NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
Studio
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
ICOR
Discuss
Course / Network centric
NOT logistics centric
Links don’t change, patterns
remain the same…
PATTERNS = AUTOMATION
We “program” courses to run without
the need to manage and tweak the
replication of billions of files while
still being tailored!
Current Students
Specialized media needs Students
Past Students
Tokenizing
course
logistics
too!
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
NGDLE (2016 version)
Join Us!
Questions
@btopro
elmsln.org

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