Drupal is far and above the most used CMS in higher education - 26% of all .edu domain websites are in Drupal, including 71 of the top 100 universities.
Higher Education with Drupal
University or college’s websites often serve as a first point of contact for prospective students. Their purpose is to find information about the educational institutions and its offerings and research activities. Furthermore, the website supports the use of online education so that students and lecturers can do their work at flexible locations at different times.
Therefore educational institutions have different requirements for their websites than companies as their services are often more broad and complexed. But how can these complexed requirements be easily implemented? 1xINTERNET uses OpenEDU, the Drupal-based solution for educational websites.
Why do we use Drupal OpenEDU?
OpenEDU is a pre-configured Drupal 8 implementation designed specifically for the needs of universities and forms the basis for your Drupal Education website. Modular extensions to meet the specific needs of your organization can then be easily added. OpenEDU provides:
- Pre-built components for programs, courses & profiles
- Content workflows & governance
- Easy-to-use, responsive layouts
- News publishing
- Powerful admin & user options
"We have already used OpenEDU for numerous web projects and receive constant positive feedback from the university institutions. Therefore we are striving to make OpenEDU even better!
Christoph Breidert, Managing Director & Co-Founder at 1xINTERNET
Why should you consider Drupal OpenEDU for your higher education site?
- It saves time & money. Create your higher education multi-websites with pre-built components that accelerate development, on the premier open source CMS in higher education with Drupal 8.
- It’s a solution designed to support flexibility, yet cohesive branding across a complex higher education structure of colleges, schools, and programs
- It provides a user experience that aligns with higher-education organizations’ key needs, such as audience-driven menus, campus directories, and a program page structure tailored to key audiences
1xINTERNET always has the requirements of education sites in mind
OpenEDU, Powered by Acquia Lightning is a joint collaboration between Acquia, 1xINTERNET (Europe), ImageX (North America) and over a dozen higher-education institutions in both Canada and US. The OpenEDU leadership group collaborates regularly with higher-education groups around the world, speaking with users and stakeholders, presenting at industry conferences, and building sites for the key needs of colleges, universities and other education groups. OpenEDU represents thousands of hours of collaboration with universities big and small, over more than 10 years and more than 50 EDU website launches.