Projects

Moodle

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 on social constructionist theory, and includes ... [More] 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]

Claroline

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 a large variety of pedagogical setup including ... [More] widening of traditional classroom and online collaborative learning. [Less]

ILIAS

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 as well. ILIAS is available as open source ... [More] 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]

Chisimba

Chisimba is a Web 2.0 enabled rapid application development with a rich set of features and over 100 modules of functionality. It is available for download via the listed homepage or cvs checkout from cvs2.uwc.ac.za. Chisimba was developed based on several years of experience in software design ... [More] and architecture at the University of the Western Cape and partner institutions around Africa using its predecessor KEWL.NextGen. It is under active development by a team of developers in 16 African higher education institutions. Features include MVC paragidm with modules including a multimedia-enabled weblog (blog), a feature-rich e-learning (learning management system) platform, a content management system, numerous modules for university and educational administration, & much more. [Less]

Chamilo LMS

Chamilo is a project that opts for open source in a radical way. It aims at bringing you the best e-learning and collaboration platform in the open source world. It comes in two flavours: Chamilo LMS, fruit of the progressive development of a software suite that started in 2001, and Chamilo LCMS ... [More] Connect, reaching the last stages of development, a new taste of e-learning that will definitely bring you fresh and creative tools. [Less]

eFront - Refreshing eLearning

eFront is an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system. It is suitable for both company and educational usage. eFront includes a wide variety of components that help you create your lesson structure and add content, build online-tests ... [More] , communicate with others, track users history and progress, conduct surveys, assign projects, and create certifications. eFront was build from the scratch with the end user in mind. You will find it rather natural to get used to its interface where most options are self-explenatory. [Less]

VuFind

VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include: * Catalog Records * Digital Library Items ... [More] * Institutional Repository * Institutional Bibliography * Other Library Collections and Resources VuFind is completely modular so you can implement just the basic system, or all of the components. And since it's open source, you can modify the modules to best fit your needs or you can add new modules to extend your resource offerings. [Less]

DFWiki

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. NWiki will be distributed as the default wiki engine in Moodle 1.9 ... [More] 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]

Ósmosis

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

Segue

Segue is an open source content management system designed for e-learning that combines the ease of use of course management systems with the flexibility of weblogs for creating various types of sites including course, news, journal, peer review and e-portfolio. When integrated into an ... [More] institution's administrative systems, it can become a portal providing access to an indivual user's course and personal websites. [Less]