Introduction to Entrada

Entrada is an open source web-based platform created to allow teachers, learners and curriculum managers a simple way of accessing, interacting, and managing the curriculum within their educational environment. Entrada is ideally suited for the health sciences because of its integrated curriculum tagging features and clerkship support; however, it can easily be modified and adapted to almost any professional program. The Entrada project is built upon the philosophies of open access and collaboration, and we welcome new interest in the project.

Entrada = Education + Social Networking

Entrada takes a different approach to eLearning compared to other traditional learning management systems, so much so that we try not to classify Entrada under that umbrella to closely; think LMS without all of the silo's.

Some of the core functionality that exists in Entrada today is:

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New Developer Community Online

Today we have launched our new Entrada Developer Community, which will serve as both the community hub and project management system for the Entrada Project. There are still a few small glitches we have to workout (i.e. OpenID support currently does not work), but please feel free to register an account and contribute if you would like. We have also switched our source control management to Git as of this morning. All existing developers were notified via e-mail, and any new developers or peo ...

Entrada 1.0.0 Release Announcement

The Entrada development team consisting of Queen's University, Medical Education Technology Unit in collaboration with University of Calgary, Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, is pleased to announce the release of the open source Entrada 1.0.0 teaching and learning platform. This important release marks the end of our internal development cycle and the beginning of what we are sure will become an open and vibrant community dedicated to enhancing t ...

Entrada Poster Presentation at CCME

The Entrada team will be presenting a poster at this years Canadian Conference on Medical Education in St. John's, Newfoundland titled "Entrada: Integrating Social Networking Within a Learning Management System Designed for Professional Education". We will be doing a brief presentation on May 2nd between 2:00PM and 3:30PM, and there will be a dedicated poster session from 3:45PM until 4:45PM on May 3rd. We hope to see you there. The official abstract is as follows: Virtually all medical ...