Claroline is a free GPL software working with PHP /MySQL. It is a course based educational tool allowing the teacher to create, admin and feed his courses through the web. Features: Shared Documents (File Manager); Agenda; Forums; Student; papers upload; Links; Statistics; Announcements; Logging and sessions; ...

Dokeos is a free software translated in 31 languages and helping more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage Learning and Collaboration activities. It allows the teacher/trainer to create content, structure activities along a sequenced path, interact with students/trainees and follow their progress. Dokeos is also a company helping these organisations launch and develop blended learning programmes.

dotLRN is a fully open source eLearning platform. The commitment to open source emphasizes the author?s belief that the core infrastructure and application suite for eLearning should be part of the "intellectual commons" and freely available to all. .LRN is being made available as open source software under the GNU General Public License. A portal framework and integrated application suite to support course management and online communities. Knowledge organizations recognize the need to support a variety of applications and tools to foster learning and to promote collaboration. Just as users rely on the "Office" suite of applications (word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, email) for basic productivity, .LRN contains an integrated suite of applications to support distributed collaborative communities engaged in learning and research. A scalable, secure, and enterprise-ready eLearning platform that can be deployed readily by small and large organizations. By its very nature, an eLearning platform cannot be a stand-alone application. .LRN will deliver ?vertical integration? into the enterprise infrastructure through well established open standards and published APIs. A modular architecture to permit flexibility and to drive innovation. As new technologies and tools emerge, ranging from P2P to wireless, organizations need the flexibility to stitch together various solutions and products. Based on the Web Services paradigm, .LRN will deliver a componentized architecture to permit ?horizontal integration? of best of breed open source and proprietary technologies.

The Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL) is a full online courseware system with all the tools needed to follow a constructivist approach to online learning. It includes gazillions of features, yet it takes only a few minutes to set up a course. (http://kewl.uwc.ac.za)

Moodle is a Free, open source PHP application for producing Internet-based educational courses and Web sites on any major platform (Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS X). Courses are easily built up using modules such as forums, chats, journals, quizzes, surveys, assignments, workshops, resources, choices and more. Moodle supports localisation, and has so far been translated into 34 languages. Moodle has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionism, and focuses on providing an environment to support collaboration, connected knowing and a meaningful exchange of ideas.

Online Learning And Training. OLAT is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) / Learning Content Management System (LCMS) used in the public sector of Switzerland. The initial development started at the University of Zuerich, Switzerland where it is deployed on the main OLAT server. Official support for OLAT is available at the OLAT-Center (Only available for Swiss university members). OLAT is open source and completely free of charge.

Bazaar is a web content hosting platform, designed with users (and administration) in mind. Its content-management system, coupled with a flexible permission system ?not to mention a modular design and mature API? allows for easy extension and integration into existing administrative systems. With the flexibility and customizability inherent in Bazaar, inspired in part, by the Open Source movement, it can be used to deliver courseware, portals or any of the other myriad types of web based projects. Bazaar is available to the education community (K-12 and post-secondary) as an Open Source alternative to such proprietary and expensive commercial systems as WebCT and Blackboard.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here are just a few ways you can use this software:
* You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
* Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
* You can create video tutorials for school or college class
* You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
* You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
* You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them.

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, or conduct courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment. The first Open Source LCMS to adopt the IMS Content Packaging specifications.

The Basic E-Learning Tool Set (BELTS) has been developed by The Le@rning Federation (TLF) to demonstrate the distribution, management and use of online curriculum content and to aid investigation of requirements for e-learning environments by Australian and New Zealand school jurisdictions.

BELTS currently provides a limited set of tools, including:


* A content repository;
* Basic activity creation, using lessons;
* Basic group management, using classes;
* Content to curriculum outcomes matching (the curriculum organiser);
* Downloading of content from The Le@rning Federation's Exchange repository of online curriculum content;
* Content replication from one BELTS to another, and
* System administration.

Centre is a free student information system for public and non-public schools. Centre is a web-based, open source, student management product with features that include student demographic info, scheduling, grade book, attendance, report cards,eligibility, transcripts, and more.

ClaSS (ClaSS Student System) is a complete student tracking, reporting, and information management system. It is integrated with a curriculum content management and publishing application and extends the reach of traditional school information systems by using the latest in Web-application methodologies. It aims to be the ubiquitous classroom information assistant for schools.

COL (Commonwealth of Learning) is creating an Open Source Learning Object Repository system based on integrating 2 open-source software packages: pakXchange, and eRIB. pakXchange implements a document repository system ("Library"). Its features include comprehensive role-based administration of publications, and version control of publications. In addition, it enables users to define Learning Object Metadata for electronic files published into its Library and to subsequently enable the Library to be searched using the Metadata values. eRIB is a Learning Object Respository demonstration system created by EduSource. eRIB contains a local repository. In addition, it provides a federated search feature that enables users to query Metadata from other EduSource Nodes as well as the internal repository, for interesting learning objects. eRIB does not provide role-based administration or version control for its contents. The COL Learning Object Repository system(or in short COL LOR) integrates eRIB and pakXchange such that the local repository of eRIB is disabled and replaced with pakXchange, and pakXchange is modified to act as an EduSource node for the purpose of searching.

Colloquia is a software system that supports group working and group learning. It allows any user to set up a working or learning group around a particular topic (a context), add people to it, add resources (web pages, documents etc) to it, set up group tasks, and then engage in group and personal "conversations" about the topic. Colloquia: is a peer-to-peer learning management and groupware system supports and encourages self-organising groups provides asynchronous group and personal conversation facilities allows personal information to be shared between participants allows learning and other online resources to be referenced and accessed has an inbuilt web browser runs on all Java enabled platforms

COSE provides a Virtual Learning Environment aimed at the creation of Study Environments rather than just the delivery of "material" and to encourage development to take place in the context of coherent pedagogy which promotes good practice. COSE allows the creation of study environments which can exploit material in a wide range of media and allow easy provision of mechanisms for support, feedback, collaboration and self-assessment without recourse by staff to skills such as scripting and mark-up languages. COSE provides a Virtual Learning Environment which promotes good practice, is effective, and which has low ownership costs

CourseWork is a open source course management system based at Stanford University and developed by Academic Computing in the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. Using CourseWork, instructors and TAs can set up a course Web site that displays announcements, on-line readings, a dynamic syllabus and schedule, on-line assignments and quizzes, a discussion forum for students, and a grade book. CourseWork is designed both for faculty with little Web experience, who can use CourseWork to develop their Web site quickly, and for expert Web-users, who can use it to organize complex, Web-based materials and link them to Web communication tools. The CourseWork source code is free and open, and can be downloaded from the web site for any organization to use and modify to their own needs. You will need your own staff to install and manage the system, but the code is free and open.

CourseWork is a open source course management system based at Stanford University and developed by Academic Computing in the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. Using CourseWork, instructors and TAs can set up a course Web site that displays announcements, on-line readings, a dynamic syllabus and schedule, on-line assignments and quizzes, a discussion forum for students, and a grade book. CourseWork is designed both for faculty with little Web experience, who can use CourseWork to develop their Web site quickly, and for expert Web-users, who can use it to organize complex, Web-based materials and link them to Web communication tools. The CourseWork source code is free and open, and can be downloaded for any organization to use and modify to their own needs. You will need your own staff to install and manage the system, but the code is free and open.

The Docebo suite is a completely free content management (CMS) and e-learning (LMS) platform released under Open Source license.
The e-learning platform supports scorm 1.2 and manages more than 50 functions, the CMS

Edubuntu is a version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution designed for use in classrooms. Included with Edubuntu is the Linux Terminal Server Project, a large number of educational applications including GCompris, KDE Edutainment Suite, and Schooltool Calendar.
The primary goal of Edubuntu is to enable an educator with limited technical knowledge and skills to set up a computer lab or an on-line learning environment in an hour or less and then effectively administer that environment. The principal design goals of Edubuntu are centralized management of configuration, users and processes, together with facilities for working collaboratively in a classroom setting. Equally important is the gathering together of the best available free software and digital materials for education. It also aims to allow resource-poor environments to maximize their available (older) equipment.

Wikipedia entry on Edubuntu

eduCommons is an OpenCourseWare management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects like MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/) and USU OCW (http://ocw.usu.edu/).

Eledge Open Learning Management System is designed to provide the framework for creating a web site for online instruction, including student registration, authentication, content creation, quizzes, exams, homework graders, report uploads, instructor gradebook, class calendar, and online help. Eledge consists of a collection of Java servlets and a MySQL database to store information and course content.

eStudy is an Open Source e-learning and collaboration platform for colleges and universities. In addition to usual course management facilities, eStudy provides special support for role-play simulations in computer science.

The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) is a web-based authoring environment designed to assist teachers and academics in the design, development and publishing of web-based learning and teaching materials without the need to become proficient in HTML, XML or complicated web-publishing applications. It supports SCORM exports for LMSs.

Fle3 is a web-based learning environment. To be more specific Fle3 is a server software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Fle3 is designed to support learner and group centered work that concentrates on creating and developing expressions of knowledge (i.e. knowledge artefacts) and design.Fle3 is Open Source and Free Software released under GNU the General Public Licence (GPL).

web-based system for managing school districts and their student-related data, including attendance, grades, report cards, transcripts, discipline referrals, and an online gradebook. Focus/SIS is a project that aims to fulfill all the data needs of private schools, school districts, and colleges in the United States and around the world. It is built upon free, enterprise-level technologies, like Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP.