Projects tagged ‘learning’

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 been designed to support modern pedagogies based ... [More] 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]

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 collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that ... [More] 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]

Maxima is a Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma system for computer based algebra. It features plotting over the network via netmath, computations over the network, extensive testing on a large array of problems, a source level debugger for ... [More] maxima code, ease of extension in fundamentally new ways, access to Common Lisp and portability to many systems. [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 restrictions. OLAT is free software/open source ... [More] , 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, AJAX-support etc. OLAt is used all over the world and has been translated into 17 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]

KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate simulation of the night sky, as seen from any location on Earth, on any date. The display includes 40,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, 2500 comets and asteroids, all 8 planets, and the Sun and Moon.

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 collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that ... [More] 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]

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 cooperative working and communication are included ... [More] 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]

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 built over sound pedagogical principles allowing ... [More] a large variety of pedagogical setup including widening of traditional classroom and online collaborative learning. [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 activities. Dokeos is widely recognised as more easy to ... [More] 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 an 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 9 plugin). [Less]

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database. It also includes an equation solver and 3D viewer for molecules.

Mahara is a user-centric Open Source ePortfolio System based on an Artefacts, Views and Groups framework.

The eLesson Markup Language (eLML) is an open source XML framework for creating structured eLessons using XML. Thanks to a clean separation between content and layout eLML lessons can be transformed into many different formats and layouts. It ... [More] supports the following output formats: XHTML, IMS Content Package, SCORM, PDF, LaTeX, Open Document Format (ODF) and DocBook. The framework has been successfully tested with many different LMS like Moodle, OLAT, WebCT/Blackboard and Ilias. A number of tools like the Firedocs eLML Editor to write lessons or the Template Builder to create eLML layout templates are available and help to make eLML one of the best tools to create sustainable e-Learning content. [Less]

jMemorize is an free open-source Java application that manages your learning processes by using flashcards and the famous Leitner system. jMemorize makes memorizing facts not only more efficient but also more fun. It boosts your whole learning experience and features categories, statistics and a visually appealing and intuitive interface.

Stud.IP is a LAMP/WAMP based learning management system especially for universities.

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 and its priorities; to assist it in student ... [More] 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]

KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter. It has built in a powerfull parser. You can plot different functions simultaneously and combine their function terms to build new functions. KmPlot supports functions with parameters and functions in polar ... [More] coordinates. Several grid modes are possible. Plots may be printed with high precision in correct scale. Features * powerful mathematical parser * precise metric printing * different plot types (functions, parametric, polar) * highly configurable visual settings (plot line, axes, grid) * export to bitmap format (BMP and PNG) and scalable vector graphics (SVG) * save/load complete session in readable xml format * trace mode: cross hair following plot, coordinates shown in the status bar support zooming and more. [Less]

Kig is a program for exploring geometric constructions. It is meant as a better replacement for such free programs as KGeo, KSeg and Dr. Geo and commercial programs like Cabri. Kig is meant as a useful and powerful utility for high school students and teachers.

Marble is a desktop globe program and a generic geographical map widget and framework. Marble shows the Earth as a sphere but doesn't need any hardware acceleration (no OpenGL needed). It's meant to be small, fast and light weight.

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 provides special support for role-play simulations in computer science.

Free mind mapping solution. Created with Gnome desktop in mind but should be cross-platform. C#, Gtk#, Cairo and XML.

Amadeus is an open e-learning platform planned and currently in development by related experts from several research groups located at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).

About NWIKI. NWiki is the only wiki engine designed from scratch to be a part of a LMS. Its completely integrated with moodle and supports mediawiki markup, implements student grading and lots of features designed for educational use of wikis. ... [More] NWiki will be distributed as the default wiki engine in Moodle 1.9 and on fall 2007 will support the OKI (Open Knowledge Iniciative ) standard, so will be interoperable also with other LMS OKI compliant, such as SAKAI. [Less]

SCENARI is a free software framework for the design of publishing chains for professional multimedia documents.

Anki is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule review times.

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 environment for creating sequences of learning ... [More] activities. These activities can include a range of individual tasks, small group work, and whole class activities based on both content and collaboration. [Less]

KTurtle is an educational programming environment. KTurtle aims to make programming as easy and touchable as possible, and therefore can be used to teach kids the basics of math, geometry and... programming. The programming language used in KTurtle ... [More] is loosly based on Logo. KTurtle allows, just like some implementations of Logo, to translate the programming language (the commands, the documentation and the error messages) to native language of the programmer. Translating the programming language to the native language of the programmer is one of the many ways KTurtle tries to make learning to programming more simple. Other features to help to achieve this goal are: intuitive syntax highlighting, simple error messages, integrated canvas to make drawings on, integrated help function, ... [Less]

Ósmosis is an opensource learning management system built on the principles of connectivism.

KAlgebra is a mathematical calculator based content markup MathML language. Nowadays it is capable to make simple MathML operations (arithmetic and logical) and represent 2D and 3D graphs. It is actually not necessary to know MathML to use KAlgebra.

The Translate.Net will help you to translate words and phrases to and from numerous languages in simple way. This free, open-source software work as client to most popular translating services available online (translators, monolingual and bilingual ... [More] dictionaries). 26 sites, 40 services, 39 languages, 1367 translations directions. Services: - Google dictionary and Google translator - Wikipedia and wiktionary - Yahoo Babel Fish translator - SYSTRAN translator (used by Yahoo Babel Fish) - Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus - etc Requirements: - Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista - Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 - Connection to Internet [Less]

KTouch is a program for learning how to touch-type. It offers you an easy way to learn to type quickly and correctly on a keyboard. Starting with only a few keys to remember you will advance through different training levels while additional keys are ... [More] introduced. KTouch indicates the keys you need to press and the finger you need to use for that key on the screen. You don't have to look down on the keyboard to search for the key. You will therefore get used to looking at the screen only and hence learn touch typing much faster. Detailed training statistics help you to find possible typing problems (keys that you typed wrong very often). The program calculates typing speed and your accuracy on-the-fly and displays them while you type. [Less]