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  1. Re:The real reason they're trying to patent this. by edremy · · Score: 3, Informative · on Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware
    This annoyed a lot of people, so much in fact, that the IS department faculty have started an initiative to code a new one, from scratch, in Java.

    Why? It's not like there aren't already a lot of highly capable Open Source LMSs out there, some are even written in Java.

    Depending on your needs, any of these could work fine. We've been running on Dokeos for the past three years, and although our needs aren't high it's worked quite well.

  2. Don't forget .LRN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Blackboard and WebCT merge

    don't forget .LRN, which is 100% open source, and serves roughly 250K users around the globe. fully I18N, fast, runs well on Linux and other Unix, etc. http://www.dotlrn.org/

  3. Re:Will Moodle or any OSS LMS scale? Why not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Blackboard and WebCT merge

    Of course an Open Source LMS can scale. .LRN http://dotlrn.org/ has been installed for systems of 25,000 students and more. Its Open Source under the GPL and has a strong developer community as well as a commitment from the schools using the software.

    An installation for 200,000 students is planned http://dotlrn.org/news/one-entry?entry_id=101407

  4. Re:Will Moodle or any OSS LMS scale? Why not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Blackboard and WebCT merge

    Of course an Open Source LMS can scale. .LRN http://dotlrn.org/ has been installed for systems of 25,000 students and more. Its Open Source under the GPL and has a strong developer community as well as a commitment from the schools using the software.

    An installation for 200,000 students is planned http://dotlrn.org/news/one-entry?entry_id=101407

  5. .LRN by tdxdave · · Score: 2, Informative · on OSS Web-based File Management?

    .LRN is a web based community system for universities that has group based file sharing with a web user interface and WebDAV support. It also supports LDAP authentication. If that's too much, the OpenACS platform .LRN is built on has all the features your are looking for in file sharing, access control and authentication.

  6. .LRN by speleo · · Score: 5, Informative · on An Open Source Alternative to Blackboard?

    http://dotlrn.org/

  7. Classroom Software by PGillingwater · · Score: 1 · on Innovative Uses for a Computer Classroom?
    There are two solutions I have used, as an Adjunct Professor at a European campus of a USA-based University. The open source solution is DotLRN from MIT, which is based on the Open ACS Toolkit. If your University has plenty of money to spend, you might consider WebCT.


    Note that teaching a course fully online is very different from using the Web to supplement a course being taught in person. I have found that the Web tools available make it easier to extend the scope of the course beyond the classroom, and to facilitate further dialogue and discussion.

  8. Re:Not full courseware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Harvard Open Source Courseware

    I'll see your karma whoring, and raise you, umm... several:
    dotLRN, built on the OpenACS toolkit.
    The Future Learning Environment, built on Zope.
    The Open Archives Initiative is also interesting for academic information archival projects. Also eprints.org for GPL software for creating archives.

    A lot of so-called "distance learning" projects focus their efforts on multimedia transmission - so that a picture of a person talking on screen can be transmitted... big whoop. The projects listed above focus on discussion and content sharing, which is where I think online education will really thrive.

  9. A best-of-breed up-and-coming framework by Evolutionary+Soldier · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Harvard Open Source Courseware
    Disclaimer: I am not connected in any way with MIT (I'm from Univ. of Texas at Austin). MIT (along with others) has an excellent project called dotlrn:

    MIT Intellectual Commons (collection of related e-learning initiatives including dotlrn): http://web.mit.edu/cet/strategy/commons.html

    What is .LRN? (from www.dotlrn.org ):

    -A fully open source eLearning platform.

    -A portal framework and integrated application suite to support course management and online communities.

    -A scalable, secure, and enterprise-ready eLearning platform that can be deployed readily by small and large organizations.

    -A modular architecture to permit flexibility and to drive innovation.

    -A set of best practices in online learning shared in the form of source code.

    The dotlrn project page has documentation, news, forums... It is hosted on the www.openacs.org site, which is the parent web framework upon which dotlrn is based. Besides the above, the framework has a rich architecture for managing permissions, users, groups, content management, course management, forums, email, and more.