** Originally cross posted from Drupal groups - http://groups.drupal.org/node/15975 **

Learning, Mentoring, Training, and Education groups

• Curriculum and Training - This is a group to organize and discuss the development of Drupal courseware to be used for training students at Drupal Camp and other training events.
• Drupal in Education - This group is an umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.
• Drupal Dojo - The Drupal Dojo was created for apprentice/journeyman developers who want to increase proficiency, and for experts looking to grow the pool of Drupal talent.
• Drupal Kata - The Drupal Kata is a program that provides training in a wide range of areas ranging from site planning, drafting proposals, project management, information architecture, development, design, infrastructure, to Drupal workflows and community. It does this by pairing apprentices with a mentor or mentors, thus gaining exposure to real-world scenarios and connections with the local and global community.
• Google Summer of Code - 2010 edition of the program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.
• DROP - DROP is a program dedicated to helping people find easy, short-term ways of making valuable contributions to Drupal, as well as helping them become a part of the Drupal community.

Other groups, projects, and discussions

• Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) - initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. The contest brought together more than 350 students from around the world to help ten Open Source projects make improvements to their code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research.
• Training Drupal professionals: Towards an open Drupal training curriculum and certification
• Training: Boosting our raw capacity to provide Drupal training (DrupalConDC)
• Training and certifications session@ szeged2008.drupalcon
• Drupal Essential Training (Lynda.com)
• Lullabot Workshops and seminars
• Open Source Training's Drupal classes
• Drupal resource repository that doubles as an online Drupal course
• How about teaching Drupal/OS in the classroom?
• Making the case for using drupal as a university-wide content management system
• Specs for a learning exercise module
• Katas in Meatspace: The Screencaster + Presenter model
• Drupalversity
• New Project Type: Course
• Drupal Dojos, Hack Nights, and Cafés in your community
• Barnraising Best Practices?!
• Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community (EDUCAUSE Review)
• Examples of Project based learning in Drupal (Heather James)