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.

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.

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.

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; ...

online addressbook for business addresses with many features (online adressbuch für adressen von firmen)

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library project at the University of Waikato, and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Humanity Libraries Project. It is open-source software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

GNUTECA is a Free, Open Source Software for Library Automation, including a Loan System, Catalog Collaboration, MARC Editing among others. It has a Web and GTK (graphic) interface.

TinyLMS is a lightweight learning management system for SCORM compliant learning content. TinyLMS is (almost) conformant to SCORM 1.2 at conformance level "LMS-RTE1". (See Known Issues) Tutorials generated with TinyLMS can be used online and offline. Runtime requirements for tutorials are low: HTML, JavaScript and Cookies are all that is needed. TinyLMS supports layered organization of learning content in addition to the hierarchical organization of learning content specified by SCORM. TinyLMS can be used as a SCORM-to-SCORM adapter. This can be used to aggregate fine grained learning content into one big SCO.

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)

The idea behind MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is to make MIT course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. The purpose of MIT OCW is to serve as a model for university dissemination of knowledge in the Internet age.

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.

phpGroupWare is a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP. It provides a Web-based calendar, todo-list, addressbook, email, news headlines, and a file manager. The system as a whole supports user preferences, themes, user permissions, multi-language support, an advanced API, and user groups.

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 CERN Document Server Software (CDSware) is the software developed by, maintained by, and used at, the CERN Document Server. It allows you to run your own electronic preprint server, your own online library catalogue or a document system on the web. It complies with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic standard. The CDSware is free software, licensed under GNU General Public Licence (GPL).

This project was created by a group of graduate students at MIT, as part of a class assignment. The students believe strongly in the principles underlying Open Source software.

This report provides an overview of the use and attitudes toward open source software in higher education.

The Purpose of the Virtual Laboratory Toolkit is to provide information and free software tools. They are relevant for the creation of a Virtual Laboratory. This Toolkit should enable scientists in the developing countries to establish and participate in basic Virtual Laboratories. Two types of tools which play an important role are covered: person-to-person (P2P) communication and person-to-equipment (P2E) communication.

The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a password protected, web-based virtual classroom system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class. Manhattan is free, and is released under the GNU General Public License

French Open Source LMS (GPL) Need PHP, Apache and MySQL. Currently working on AICC SCORM and XML features. Ganesha will shortly be available in several languages.

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.

PYTHEAS1 (Powerful Yet Tactfully Helpful Electronic Arranger of Sources) is designed to be a multi-tier ILS (Integrated Library System). The two major building blocks for providing server-based metadata and information retrieval capabilities in PYTHEAS are MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloguing) and RDF (the Resource Description Framework), standards that define a format for describing objects and can package highly structured metadata for describing content and content relationships in physical and digital objects. The client environment for PYTHEAS can best be described as "web-centric". The objective is to provide a platform and language neutral environment for accessing and manipulating the information in PYTHEAS.

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).

ILIAS has been developed in the VIRTUS project of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. Through a client-server system ILIAS allows users to create, edit and publish learning units in a single system. The current version of ILIAS offers the following features: Personal desktop for each user with information about last visited courses, new mails or posts Learning environment with personal annotations, test, glossary, print function, search engine, offline-version Communication features like news system and discussion forums Group system for collaborative work and organising members and resources Integrated authoring environment (Editor) to create courses without HTML Support of metadata for all levels of learning objects Context-sensitive help system for learners and authors User and system administration interface System languages: english, german, french, spanish, norwegian, swedish, danish, polish. The web-based training platform ILIAS is available as open source software under the terms of the GNU-GPL. Universities, educational institutions and every interested person may use the system free of charge and contribute to the further development.

Stud.IP offers a "minimal standard" for presence teaching or blended learning as "open source" software. University courses are not replaced, but supported by Stud.IP, and administrative procedures are simplified. Stud.IP offers a quick and uncomplicated introduction to the world of e-learning. A ?minimal standard? for presence teaching is offered. For every course offered at an institute, a range of tools are available. These include schedules, document folders, discussion forums, participant lists, literature and link lists, news tickers and much more. The aim is not to replace existing courses, but to support them with a multimedia approach. The second focus is at an administrative level, allowing the updating of current institute homepages via the internet, the administration of resources such as rooms and technical equipment, print-outs of course commentary or administering appointments with the integrated Personal Information Manager (PIM).

eGroupWare is a flexible pluggable framework capable of hosting applications like a group calender, address book, email, infolog (notes, to-dos, phone calls), content management, trouble ticket system, forum, and more. These applications can share a common user store and a flexible access control list (ACL) system to control access and information sharing.

Interact is an Online Learning and Collaboration platform developed by the Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand. It is a free alternative to the likes of WebCT and Blackboard. It is an open source cms, lms designed with the intention of making it easy for students and lecturers to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of teaching and learning. The key advantage of Interact is the ability to structure a course the way you want it, rather than being stuck with a predefined separation of content and interaction. The initial system concept was based on the LearnLoop online learning system, but Interact has a completely different code base. Other advantages over similar systems include: The abiltity to share content between course sites. This means that lecturers can have the same content in many course, but only need to update it in one place. Students and Lecturers can access all new course material and forum postings from one central place, no need to check every forum for new posts. Students can be given control of 'group' areas to add and manage their own material. The system is flexible enough to be used as a full intranet/portal and not just for online course management

The LearningAccess ILS is a full-feature Open Source library automation system developed for use by public and school libraries throughout world. The Institute will make this system available free to libraries that, because of cost, have been unable to achieve the benefits of automation. The system fully supports MARC21, Z39.50, Unicode andother critical lirbary standards as identified by IFLA.

This paper discusses some of the potential ways in which the approaches that characterise FLOSS might be applied in educational contexts; specifically, whether they can act as a model for education in:

* offering new approaches to teaching and learning, specifically enabling personalised learning and enhanced learner voice

* enabling knowledge sharing and collaboration between teachers

* overcoming structural divides between developers of educational software and its users.

The paper does not discuss the pros and cons of schools adopting open source software systems, but examines the possibilities opened up by pursuing an open source philosophy.

DB MANIC is an open-source, cross-platform system to create and deliver courses over the WWW. DB MANIC allows instructors to create courses and deliver them to students as HTML slides shown in synchrony with the voice of the instructor in an audio stream. Courses are organized as modular units to teach individual topics; students can drive their learning experience by browsing the material freely and controlling the pace of the presentations.DB MANIC provides an on-line authoring tool that does not require knowledge of HTML and that makes it easy to create, maintain, reuse, and share courses.DB MANIC has been used to deliver a variety of courses. Students benefit from around-the-clock access to material; the combination of audio and text also makes it easy to understand and remember the material. Instructors are able to cover more material during their lectures and to adapt the digital material for future use

OBM is an Intranet application which goal is to help manage a company or an organization. As OBM improve, it is approaching what are called CRM.

Lucane is a free groupware platform written in Java. Bundled apps are instant messaging, file sharing, chat, forum, personnal notes, shared calendar, mail...

Uni Open Platform is a flexible Open Source e-learning environment tailored to master the daily tasks in educational institutions. The Uni Open Platform platform was developed during the project ?Virtual University?, funded by the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia. Uni Open Platform is a web-based system for the administration of courses, students, and educational staff. It is currently in operation at four educational institutions. Among these institutions is the faculty of electrical engineering at the University of Hagen, which developed the platform under the name ET-Online.

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.

In sharp contrast to commercial influences in online education, vigorous shared knowledge communities, intended to facilitate teachers creating online learning contexts by sharing materials, have emerged. As part that movement, the Open Learning Management System is an open code online learning management system developed at the University of Utah which is in accord with architectural philosophy of the Open Knowledge Initiative. This software infrastructure can be used be used to create learning contexts to support classroom courses or to create fully-online courses. Current learning and management components are written in Java 1.1.5, dynamically driven by Oracle 8.1, and deployed on an Apache 1.3 server running on a Sun Solaris 7.

Made in New Zealand by the Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications Ltd the Koha system is a full catalogue, opac, circulation and acquisitions system.

MimerDesk is a Web-based groupware/courseware environment designed for a wide variety of uses such as personal management, computer-supported collaborative learning, carrying out projects, and setting up communities. Its main strengths include a very customizable group system which allows many groups to work simultaneously on a shared database with tools like Calendar, Tasks, Forums, Links, Chat, Reviews, Voting, Files, Instant Messages, Profiles, and many more.

The Avanti circulation system is a simple, scalable, networkable, client/server circulation system that can be deployed in small to medium scale libraries. The end product will be modular: consisting of a system core, circulation module, minimal OPAC, and network and user interfaces. The entire system is written in Java. Avanti 0.3.1 was developed using the Blackdown JDK v1.1.7 on a Linux system with the servlet classes being developed using the Apache Jserv servlet engine.

DSpace is a digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT. As a joint project of MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company, DSpace provides stable long-term storage needed to house the digital products of MIT faculty and researchers. For the user: DSpace enables easy remote access and the ability to read and search DSpace items from one location: the World Wide Web. For the contributor: DSpace offers the advantages of digital distribution and long-term preservation for a variety of formats including text, audio, video, images, datasets and more. Authors can store their digital works in collections that are maintained by MIT communities. For the institution: DSpace offers the opportunity to provide access to all the research of the institution through one interface. The repository is organized to accommodate the varying policy and workflow issues inherent in a multi-disciplinary environment. Submission workflow and access policies can be customized to adhere closely to each community's needs.

Portal or content management software. Based on PHP and MySQL.

The OCLC SiteSearch? software provides a comprehensive solution for managing distributed library information resources in a World Wide Web environment. It offers tools that integrate electronic resources under one web interface, provide flexible access to resources, and build text and image databases locally.

OpenUSS is a J2EE- and GPL-based E-Learning platform. OpenUSS is an infrastructure software for every Organizations, which have a need to build an E-Learning platform: - universities, - schools, - training companies and - other companies, which offer direct training to their workers. Like Apache for web server, JBoss and JOnAS for EJB server, Tomcat for servlet server, OpenUSS is targeted to take over the market for Learning Management Systems (LMS). At least it is believed that, LMS are also general-purpose, commoditized, horizontal infrastructure software.

OpenLMS is a Learning Management System (LMS) made at the Dept. of Geography, NTNU, Norway. The system is a fully functional LMS with support for group collaboration, file sharing, distribution of lectures, etc..

OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN e-learning platform. OpenACS is open source and is available under the GNU General Public License.

The Generic Mapping Tools

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.

EPrints is generic archive software under development by the University of Southampton. It is intended to create a highly configurable web-based archive. EPrints primary goal is to be set up as an open archive for research papers, but it could be easily used for other things such as images, research data, audio archives - anything that can be stored digitally by making changes in configuration. It works on Linux O/s and it needs MySQL, Perl modules and Apache webserver.

LAMS is a web-based tool for designing, managing and delivering online 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 individual tasks, small work groups and whole of class activities.

The primary goal of the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) is to design and develop an open and extensible architecture for learning management systems (LMS).The initiative is motivated by the recognition that existing LMS platforms, whether commercial or home-grown, are not very extensible. They do not easily support the development of new educational applications and are difficult to extend into a university?s legacy backend infrastructure (authentication/authorization schemes, Registrar?s databases or digital library collections.) To correct this problem, OKI?s architecture and open source approach is designed to encourage both the partner institutions and eventually a broader educational community to contribute tools and services to OKI?s code-base. Like all good architecture, OKI has been designed to be spare and elegant and yet provide the hooks and services that will make it a fertile environment for academic developers.

jReform is an open source library for processing HTML forms that aims to simplify web development by automating validation of form inputs.