Open Source Education LMSs

 

1. .LRN (.LRN Consortium) http://dotlrn.org/  
2. ATutor 1.6 (University of Toronto) http://www.atutor.ca. Calls itself an LCMS –.  Developed at the University of Toronto.  Version 1.6 released Feb. 2008
3. Bazaar http://sourceforge.net/projects/bazaar/ Bazaar is a multifunction system that does Web Conferencing, IRC chat, link management, and sgml publication (for the ICAAP system). Bazaar uses MySQL.
4. Bodington http://bodington.org/ implemented and supported by a wide group of educational institutions, led by Oxford, UHI and Leeds.
5. Caucus (http://www.caucus.com)
6. Claroline http://www.claroline.net/
7. ClassWeb (UCLA) http://classweb.ucla.edu/
8. Click-a-Teacher (Click-a-Teacher) http://www.click-a-teacher.com/ An online supplier of Moodle and other open source tools.
9. Colloquia http://www.colloquia.net/ Peer-to-peer groupware.
10. COSE (Staffordshire University, UK) http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/  .
11. CWIS (Collection Workflow Integration System) http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/CWIS/.  A learning content management/learning object repository system developed as part of the Internet Scout project at the University of Wisconsin.
12. Docebo LMS http://www.docebolms.org/doceboCms/ Docebo is an e-learning suite that contains an LMS (for online courses), and a CMS (for web portal building). Scorm support.
13. Dokeos (Dokeos) http://www.dokeos.com.  Based in Belgium, Dokeos is an elearning and course management web application translated into 34 languages
14. Drupal http://drupal.org/ An open source “Content Management System” with communication tools
15. Eledge (University of Utah) http://eledge.sourceforge.net/
16. Elgg http://elgg.net/  Open source learning platform – creating communities of learners
17. ETH Zurich dLCMS (Dynamic Learning Content System) http://www.dlcms.ethz.ch/
18. ETUDES-NG (Next Generation) http://www.foothillglobalaccess.org/etudes/ A group of California Community Colleges.  ETUDES-NG is the Alliance's local implementation of Sakai.
19. eXe eLearning XHTML editor http://exelearning.org - an authoring tool based in New Zealand
20. Fedora http://www.fedora.info/ and http://www.fedora-commons.org/.  An open source learning content management/learning object repository systems developed at Cornell University.
21. Fle3 http://fle3.uiah.fi/  University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland.
22. ILIAS http://www.ilias.de/ios/index-e.html University of Cologne Germany.
23. Interact Online Learning Environment http://www.interactole.org
24. Internet Course Assistant http://www.nicenet.org/  Nicenet is an organization of Internet professionals who donate their time to provide services for the Internet community.
25. Kewl.NextGen (KNG) (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) http://kewl.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=splashscreen An open source system.
26. LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) (based at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia (www.mq.edu.au)) http://www.lamsinternational.com
27. LON-CAPA (http://loncapa.msu.edu/)  LON-CAPA is a Learning Content Management System, which started in the College of Natural Science and Michigan State University
28. MAGNOLIA (http://www.magnolia.info)  Actually an open source “Content Management Suite” but is used as a Course Management System by the Medical Sciences Division of the University of Oxford, UK.
29. Manhattan Virtual Classroom http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/  Developed at Western New England College.  Runs on Linux and other Unix like platforms.  It is licensed under the General Public License.
30. MimerDesk http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/516760/MimerDesk.html MimerDesk is an open source web-based collaborative learning and groupwork environment
31. Moodle (open source) http://www.moodle.org.  Probably the most widely used open source system. Developed by Martin Dougiamas in Australia.
32. MyiCourse http://www.myicourse.com/ Not technically open source but a free web-based service for developing and posting courses.  Primarily aimed at smaller organizations that want to develop courses.  Advertiser supported.
33. OLAT (University of Zurich) http://www.olat.org/
34. Sakai http://www.sakaiproject.org/ Sakai has taken several other open source initiatives under its wing which makes it a strong player.
35. Site@School http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net/ A website content management system for primary schools.
36. True Solution AlefMentor (True Solution, Serbia and Montenegro) http://truesolution.net/ e-learning only.  Open source education solution.
37. University of Utah Open Learning Management System (OLMS) (University of Utah, Department of Psychology) http://www.psych.utah.edu/learn/olms/
38. Whiteboard http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/ .

There are numerous other open source ELMSs listed at http://sourceforge.net.  Do a search for “Learning Management Systems or “Virtual Learning Environments”.

http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/open_source_cms3.htm lists about 30 - they tend to be management systems for education environments developed at universities around the world.

Another list of Open Source Education Management Systems can be found at http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/vendors/opensource.htm

In 2003 a study was done by the Commonwealth of Learning regarding Open Source Course Management Systems.  A copy of this is available at http://www.col.org/Consultancies/03LMSOpenSource.htm

A  very useful website comparing course management systems for formal education http://www.edutools.info/course/