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]

OLAT

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, and has been developed since 1999 at the University ... [More] 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 Basic LTI, 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. A packaged deployment (WAR) consistent with the Java Web Specification simplifies the rollout of the application. [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]

Moodle (contrib)

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

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]

eLML (eLesson Markup Language)

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 supports the following output formats: XHTML, IMS Content ... [More] Package, SCORM, eBooks (ePub format), 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]

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.

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]

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]