Projects

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]

Moodle (lang)

Moodle is translated into over 70 languages by a dedicated corps of worldwide volunteers. Translation has actually been going on a lot longer than the stats here may suggest, because the language packs used to be part of the main Moodle code base.

OpenOLAT

OpenOLAT is a learning management system written in Java. OpenOLAT has been forked out of the OLAT project because we do no longer believe in the openness of the original project. OpenOLAT is used by universities, schools and companies to deliver e-learning content, to do testing and assessment and ... [More] to work collaboratively in various learning scenarios. [Less]

LAMS

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

Evergreen

An enterprise-class Integrated Library System (ILS).

Sakai Nakamura

A set of back end services riding on top of Apache Sling in order to power a Collaboration and Learning Environment (Sakai) for higher education.

Kewl.NextGen

KEWL.NextGen is a PHP version of the Learning Management System KEWL, rewritten from the ground up using a MVC paradigm with modular, architecture, running on Apache, PHP, and MySQL. The framework is called KINKY, and there are a number of sister projects, all of which are now succeeded by Chsiimba. ... [More] If you need a really cutting edge e-learning (LMS) platoform, then you should rather use Chisimba (KEWL 3.0). If you need something that is more mature, that works with PHP4, then KEWL.NextGen is still supported. At UWC it is at http://elearn.uwc.ac.za and runs our main e-learning server, with c. 15000 users. Please note that KEWL.NextGen is replaced by KEWL 3.0, based on the Chisimba framework as from January 2008. KEWL.NextGen will be supported and maintained until 2009 for existing cusomers. [Less]