Projects tagged ‘communications’ and ‘education’

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]

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]

LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) is an online system for designing, managing, and delivering collaborative learning activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring ... [More] environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can include a range of individual tasks, small group work, and whole class activities based on both content and collaboration. [Less]

RubyCampus is a relationship management system for admissions, strategic enrollment management and alumni development. It has been designed for higher education to organize an institutions mission ... [More] and its priorities; to assist it in student recruitment, increasing enrollment yields while refining communications and improving overall campus diversity and student retention rates. It can also be used in conjunction with one or more e-Learning platforms such as Moodle and Sakai with built in synchronization features and tools. It is written in Ruby and is easy to install and use on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, SunOS and BSD and offers a free and fully transparent open source alternative to commercial software. [Less]

Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent ... [More] (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable. The Croquet architecture supports synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and multiple devices. [Less]

The Language Pack for the RubyCampus Relationship Management & Alumni Development platform for Higher Education contains the Ruby-GetText PO templates maintained by the projects translation team. ... [More] These files represent the source state of the included MO binaries found in the locale folder within RubyCampus. THIS IS A SUB-PROJECT OF THE RUBYCAMPUS PROJECT [Less]