Projects tagged ‘education’

MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, and other projects. It's designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.

FreeMind is Mind-Mapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree-structured data. It features a modular design, and can be used to edit any kind of data, dependent on the current mode. The data is represented as a Mind-Map, while data, behavior, node ... [More] style, edge style, color, etc. are determined by the mode. It features one-click fold, unfold, and "follow link" operations. [Less]

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]

gnuplot plots 2d and 3d graphs, from a data file or with a formula. It has an interactive mode with online help, or it can be used non-interactively. gnuplot does function fitting to data sets, and it does output to many terminals, among which are PostScript, X11 display, PNG, and GIF (via the old gd library).

Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in ... [More] scripting engine. Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars. Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations. It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan. [Less]

Kino is a non-linear DV (digital video) editor for GNU/Linux. It features integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in RawDV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV ... [More] (separate audio stream) encodings. You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. Also, Kino can load movies and export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX. Still frame export uses Imlib1, which has built-in support for PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and whatever your ImageMagick installation suppor [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.

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

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.

NLTK — the Natural Language Toolkit — is a suite of open source Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing, supporting dozens of NLP tasks, with distributions for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

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

RapidMiner (formerly YALE) is the most comprehensive open-source software for intelligent data analysis, data mining, knowledge discovery, machine learning, predictive analytics, forecasting, and analytics in business intelligence (BI). RapidMiner ... [More] provides more than 400 data mining operators, a graphical user interface (GUI), an online tutorial with hands-on data mining applications, a comprehensive PDF tutorial, many visualization schemes for data sets and data mining results, many different learning and meta-learning schemes ranging from decision tree and rule learners to neural networks, SVMs, ensemble methods, etc. RapidMiner is implemented in Java and available under GPL (GNU General Public License) as well as under a developer license (OEM license) for closed-source developers [Less]

Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. Its goal is to turn the XO laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.

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]

Schooltool is an open source student information system, which we will be beta testing during the 2006-2007 school year.

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.

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.

Tux Paint is a simple and entertaining drawing program geared towards young children. It has a simple interface, sound effects, and a cartoon character (Tux, the Linux penguin). Along with drawing brush strokes, lines and shapes, you can also enter ... [More] text and place "rubber stamp" (or "sticker") images on the picture. Tux Paint is extensible, and could be useful in an educational environment (such as a grammar, elementary, or grade school). It's portable across numerous platforms, and runs well even on slower systems like the Pentium 133MHz. [Less]

The OSGeo Free GIS Book is a collaborative project to write a book about Geographical Information Systems. The theory around GIS methodologies is vast and many disciplines are evolved, cartography, image analysis, remote sensing, geodesy, etc. This project tries to give the community a complete text to teach and learn GIS mainly in theory.

The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment. The current version of Edubuntu is aimed at classroom use, and future versions of Edubuntu will expand to other educational usage, such as university use.

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

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]

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.