Case Study: Queen’s University achieves collaborative medical education software development with GitHub

Elentra at Queen’s University created a Consortium built on GitHub to transform medical education

Queen’s University needed a flexible way to build an integrated online learning experience for its medical school, but rapidly changing education requirements made it hard to support in-house. To solve this, the university’s Elentra Consortium moved from SVN to Git and then to GitHub, using GitHub to support a community-driven software model for its curriculum management platform and related tools.

With GitHub, Queen’s University created institutional forks so each participating school could customize code without affecting the core product, then contribute useful changes back through the consortium. GitHub also streamlined collaboration with Jira and GitHub Actions for CI/CD, testing, and code quality checks. The result was a consortium of more than 20 universities, over 100 developers, 10 repositories, and lower costs after replacing Travis CI with GitHub Actions.

Queen’s University

Matt Simpson

Associate Director