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  1. Claroline by Wister285 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Real Open Source Applications for Education?

    Claroline is one of the best CMS solutions for schools that I have seen, even when compared to commercial alternatives. It can be accessed at:

    http://www.claroline.net/

  2. Re:Where's Moodle? by Adhemar · · Score: 3, Interesting · on How Open Source Is Changing Education

    Moodle (moodle.org) is great, but so is that other Free Software e-learning and course management web application Dokeos (dokeos.com). (A fork of ex-Claroline, by the original authors, who are no longer employed by the UCL who owns the trademark Claroline.)

    Which one is the best, Moodle or Dokeos, ultimately comes down to personal preferences. In general Dokeos is more Blackboard-like, and I know several institutions who choose Dokeos because of the lower learning curve, having used Blackboard before.

    Also worth noting is another free software package, a project funded by the (Mark) Shuttleworth Foundation: SchoolTool (schooltool.org), including SchoolBell. It's not an e-learning and course management web application, but rather a school infrastructure administration tool.

  3. Re:Yes, but by AP23 · · Score: 1 · on Blackboard and WebCT merge

    There are several open source efforts with different degrees of maturity.
    I have been looking into Claroline http://www.claroline.net/ and it seems to be fairly good for my requirements.

  4. claroline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on An Open Source Alternative to Blackboard?

    We use http://www.claroline.net/ at our university. It's php/mysql based, and oss all the way.

  5. We're using Claroline by edremy · · Score: 1 · on Dream Jobs of 2004
    We're using Claroline here. It's been doing fairly well, although there are some features I'd like it doesn't have yet. (I've already added 2 since it's just a set of PHP scripts- it ain't hard.)

    Another possibility is Stanford's CourseWork

    WebCT and Blackboard should be very, very scared

  6. VLE, MLE, etc. by iar · · Score: 2, Informative · on Harvard Open Source Courseware

    Two rather more mature open-source projects not mentioned here (I think) are

    • Claroline, developed at the Catholic University of Louvain
    • Bodington, developed at the University of Leeds.

    The University of Oxford has just chosen the latter as its VLE. I've not used Bodington, but Claroline I've found to be very good already, albeit not as full-featured as WebCT.

    As someone starting to use a VLE to teach, they are useful (if nothing else) for integrating content and discussion, rather than hundreds of departmental websites and separate discussion boards, etc. And outside of distance learning proper, they are also dead handy for i) supporting large classes [very difficult to give a class of 180 your individual attention, much as we might wish to] - ii) keeping some kind of rolling discussion going between seminars. But some folk actually prefer interacting this way over f2f contact. And it can cut down on photocopying expenses (no small matter in hard-pressed departments).

    As for the integration of systems within universities (library/admin/departments/vle), yeah well that is a problem: turf wars, bureaucracy, short-sightedness, etc. etc. Part of me thinks the 'Managed Learning Environment' will remain mythical...

    Ian

  7. Claroline by fiftyLou · · Score: 1 · on Software for Online Courses?


    A GPL'ed e-learning platform: Claroline Classroom online