This session will be a walk-through on what is OpenScholar (http://openscholar.harvard.edu/) and how it is used at schools.
We'll talk about automating the content on the scholar sites using contributed modules like LinkedIn.

About OpenScholar (Taken from the OpenScholar project page)
OpenScholar represents a paradigm shift in how the personal academic and research web sites are created and maintained. Built on the open-source framework Drupal, OpenScholar makes it possible to create academic web sites in a matter of seconds. Each web site comes with a suite of powerful tools from which users can facilitate the creation, distribution, and preservation of knowledge faster and more efficiently than ever before. OpenScholar supports customizable domains for every site, so site owners can keep their current domain name.

What we'll cover

• We'll go over OpenScholar features like Announcement, Blog, Class, Events..........
• We'll Unleash the potential of OpenScholar and thus Drupal.
• We'll show a Demo on automation of the OpenScholar content.

Demo site will include

• School Brochure
• Course Catalog
• E-Commerce (Automatic student registration on payment)
• Customizable Instructor Profiles (Rich Drag & Drop Interface)
• LMS (Learning management system)
• Recording & publishing Lectures (with automatic Speech to Text Conversion)

User Roles & Responsibilities

• Administrator/Registrar (Creates A class)
• Instructor (Adds Class materials)
• Student (Pays for the class, System registers and gives access to the class materials.)
• Parent (Monitors the class. can Post/comment on a blog entry.)

Demo in Detail is explained in the Presentation Slides (in Draft) here https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddj7xzzm_82f9vhj6fd

This Demo was presented at Drupal meetups in Boston

Audience
People from Schools, Colleges, Universities, School districts and any other institutes of education that would like to adopt Drupal.

Works very well in Virtual education case too.