Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, SunOS, BSD, and Netware 6. It has ... [More] been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, chats, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, workshops, glossaries, lessons, and assignments. It has been translated into over 70 languages, with more on the way, and supports the popular SCORM standard for content packaging. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial software such as WebCT or Blackboard, and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance education or to supplement face-to-face teachin [Less]

OLAT is the acronym for Online Learning And Training. It is a web application - a Learning Management System - that supports any kind of online learning, teaching, and tutoring with little didactical ... [More] restrictions. OLAT is free software/open source, and has been developed since 1999 at the University of Zürich and won the MeDiDa-Prix in the year 2000. OLAT has support for various E-learning standards such as IMS Content Packaging, IMS QTI and SCORM. OLAT offers all the tools that you'd expect of a modern LMS like Wiki, Chat, Forum, Calendar, Cluster, AJAX-support etc. OLAt is used all over the world and has been translated into 30 languages. The web-framework behind OLAT has been pubslished as a self-standing open source framework unter the name Brasato, which complies with the MVC-pattern. [Less]

Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research ... [More] collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of higher ed institutions and commercial affiliates which have signed on as formal, fee-paying partners in the endeavor. Its direction and development are guided by member collaboration, while central resources are coordinated by a foundation and an elected board. "Sakai (core)" represents the code that is included in releases. See also "Sakai (contrib)". [Less]

This code is third-party or popular plugins, patches and tools for Moodle that are separate from the main codebase.

Claroline is a free application based on PHP/MySQL allowing teachers or education organizations to create and administrate courses through the web. Developed from teachers to teachers, Claroline is ... [More] built over sound pedagogical principles allowing a large variety of pedagogical setup including widening of traditional classroom and online collaborative learning. [Less]

Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research ... [More] collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of higher ed institutions and commercial affiliates which have signed on as formal, fee-paying partners in the endeavor. Its direction and development are guided by member collaboration, while central resources are coordinated by a foundation and an elected board. "Sakai (contrib)" represents experimental code not yet included in releases. See also "Sakai (core)". [Less]

Dokeos is an Open Source e-learning and course management web application translated in 34 languages and helping more than 3.600 organisations worldwide to manage learning and collaboration ... [More] activities. Dokeos is widely recognised as more easy to use than most of its competitors by wide training organisations all over Europe and Latin America. In Dokeos, you can manage courses, students, documents, forums and exercises, and import SCORM content and PowerPoint presentations directly into your learning paths, making it a wonderful solution in terms of interoperability. You can also use one of the only available open-source videoconference tools that do not require an external program to run, making it completely portable (needs Flash plugin). [Less]

ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows users to create, edit and publish learning and teaching material in an integrated system with their normal web browsers. Tools for ... [More] cooperative working and communication are included as well. ILIAS is available as open source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Universities, educational institutions, private and public companies, and every interested person may use the system free of charge and contribute to its further development. It has been certified for being compliant to SCORM 1.2 RTE Level 3 and SCORM 2004 3rd Edition. [Less]

eStudy is an Open Source e-learning and collaboration platform for colleges, universities, and distributed software development teams. In addition to usual course management facilities, eStudy ... [More] provides special support for role-play simulations in computer science. [Less]

OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a community supported open-source project as well as a commercial services, training and support organization.