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Product Name | Sponser/Developer | Country of Origin | License Type |
Notes
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MIT/Heidelberg | US/Germany | GPL | ||
Adept | Russia | GPL | very little information available | |
ATutor 1.2 | University of Toronto | Canada | GPL | Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=158) |
Bazaar 7 | University of Athabasca | Canada | GPL | (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=152) |
Boddington | University of Leeds | U.K. | Bodington System Software License | |
CHEF | University of Michigan | US | ||
Claroline 1.4 | Université catholique de Louvain | France | Institute for Education and Multimedia (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=69) | |
ClassWeb 2.0 | University of California Los Angeles | US | (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=118) | |
Coursework | Stanford University | US | ||
eClass.Net | Tulane University | US | BSD | unclear if this is solely a framework or an integrated set of apps |
eConf | University of Namur | Belgium | GPL | The Infonet group |
Eduzope | Coalition (Infrae, Plone, others) | Europe | ||
eLecture Online Lecturing System | Christian and Thomas Lang (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) | Austria | ||
Eledge 1.2 | Chuck Wight (University of Utah) | US | GPL | (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=73 ) |
e-Tutor | University of Ottawa | Canada | GPL | |
Fle3 | University of Art and Design Helsinki | Finland | GPL | UIAH Media Lab (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=74 ) |
Freestyle Learning | University of Muenster | Germany | ||
GANESHA | Anéma Formation | France | GPL | exclusively in French |
H2O Project | Harvard Law School | US | GPL | discussion-type software from a law school that promotes specific type of collaborations |
Ilias | University of Cologne | Germany | GPL | |
Interact | Christchurch College of Education | New Zealand | GPL | originally based on LearnLoop but now has different codebase |
Interactive Learning Enviroment (ILE) | Brad Cox | US | written in Ruby | |
Internet Course Reader | TeleLearning National Centre of Excellence | Canada | LGPL | |
Jones e-education V2002 | Jones Advisory GroupTM | US | Free to post-secondary but not really 'open source' - the software can be modified for an institution's own use, but may not be re-distributed under the license agreement that users must accept. (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=41) | |
KEWL - | University of Western Cape | South Africa | ||
LearnLoop | ITuniversity in Gothenburg | Sweden | GPL | Online-Learning community software |
LON-CAPA | Michigan State University | US | ||
Manhattan Virtual Classroom 0.93 | Western New England College | US | GPL | (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=139) |
MimerDesk 1.5.3.1 | Ionstream | Finland | GPL | (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=140) |
MnITS Internet Teaching System | Daniel Bartholomew | US | GPL | |
Moodle 1.1 | Martin Dougiamas | Australia | GPL | (reviewed on the edutools site at http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=149) |
OpenCourse | Paul Jones | US | GPL | |
Open Learning Mananagement System (O-LMS) | University of Utah | US | ? | |
OpenUSS | University of Münster | Germany | GPL | part of the larger CampusSource project |
Segue | Middlebury College | US | ||
Shadownet | University of Missouri-Columbia | US | GPL | Center for Technology Innovations in Education |
Spaghettilearning.com | Italy | GPL | ||
sTeam | Univeristy of Paderborn | Germany | java-based constructivist type tool | |
Stellar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | (as far as I know this has not yet been released publicly and is only used internally, but important as a future reference implementation for OKI) | |
TextWeaver | San Diego State University | US | GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) | based on Internet Course Reader |
Uni Open Platform | FernUniversitaet in Hagen | Germany | GPL | part of the larger CampusSource project |
WBT-Master | Graz University of Technology | Austria | GPL | Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media, |
WebWork | University of Rochester | US | free, educational users may alter the source but may not be altered by commercial users. | |
Whiteboard | Todd Templeton | US | GPL |
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