When Christopher said the Fayetteville WordPress community had a strong academic bent and asked me to talk about educational uses of WordPress, I was glad to say yes. WordPress is used by educational institutions in a variety of ways, including everything from student blogs and portfolios to college recruiting sites, newspapers, and even delivering course content in lieu of an LMS like Blackboard. In this talk I’ll show some examples of how WordPress is currently being used in university settings as well as the current project to improve the Courseware plugin. Hopefully it will inspire the Fayetteville academics in the audience to bring WordPress back to campus with them on Monday. 🙂
Have any specific questions on the subject? If you leave them in the comments I’ll try to include the answers in my presentation. There will also be plenty of time for questions at WordCamp, so don’t be shy about raising your hand while I’m talking.
