Higher Ed Re-imagined with WordPress

Being that WordCamp Philly is taking place at a university, we deliberately sought out a session that would be able to emphasize the power of WordPress in an academic arena. Enter Munir Mandviwalla, chairman of Temple University’s Department of Management Information Systems, one of TechRepublic’s top 10 MIS programs in the country. If you’ve rocked a collegiate program in the last ten years or so, you most likely have had experience with Blackboard or another piece of class-based software. You also probably hated it. Over the last few years, Munir has led a valiant charge in the educational realm, re-imagining the core concepts of a Learning Management System with WordPress and BuddyPress – and rebuilding an entire department’s functionality in the process. Is this the future of educational software? Munir breaks it all down for us at WordCamp Philly.