I have been looking at Drupal as part of a slow burning project which is aiming to create a repository for language teachers to share teaching resources. The project is a collaboration between 3 universities but will initially run as a pilot for the French department at LSE. It’s still in the development stage but some real resources will be added soo. Project >>

Drupal is essentially a content management system – see for example HarvardScience & MiNa – with social software features built-in: tagging, blogging, RSS etc. It’s open source and one of the areas we’d like to explore, is content sharing through possible integration with Moodle, our virtual learning environment. At present integration only seems to go as far as single sign on which is aimed at those who might be using Drupal for a portal or intranet site alongside Moodle as a VLE. One of the aims of the OpenAcademic project is to integrate Drupal, Moodle & MediaWiki but it’s not clear how far this has got. That project has produced DrupalEd which is a pre-configured version of Drupal for use as either “a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment”.